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This is an Amazon fulfilment centre. Robots all around, carrying your stuff. Amazing. Scary.
Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos announced a drone-delivery service for Amazon Prime customers, Amazon Prime Air yesterday on 60 minutes.
That’s what I was thinking about here.
You can learn more about it here.
Don’t expect it before a number of years, though.
The personality of Parisian neighbourhoods in typography.
The Science of productivity:
Shockingly, when we look at some of the most elite musicians in the world, we find that they aren’t necessarily practicing more but, instead, more deliberately. This is because they spend more time focused on the hardest task and focus their energy in packets — instead of diluting their energy over the entire day, they have periods of intense work, followed by breaks. Not relying on willpower, they rely on habit and discipline scheduling. Studies have found that the most elite violinists in the world generally follow a 90-minute work regime, with a 15- to 20-minute break afterwards.
Another reblog from explore-blog:
Networked Society – Seth Godin and others on the future of learning in a new project by Ericsson, two years after Ericsson’s 2020 Project exploring the future of technology.
In the beginning of the video we are told that the origin of a complex bureaucratic system similar to higher education took its roots in the military, leaders needed formatted soldiers. Interesting point of view.
In this video, Reddit cofounders Steve Huffman and Alexis Ohanian tell the story of how it all began.
It didn’t start to be Reddit; that’s for sure.