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“In China, there are a registries of haunted apartments. If you’re willing to live somewhere with a sinister history, you can get a discount of 30% … Avatar Robot Cafe Dawn in Tokyo is staffed by robot waiters that are remotely controlled by workers with disabilities working from home … Photographs of sporting events in the 1960–70s have a blue haze in the background that’s absent in modern photos. It’s because everyone was smoking in the arena.” Tom Whitwell’s always interesting list of learnings. 52 things I learned in 2024.

+ “Over the summer, when Duncan McCabe would tell his co-workers at his Toronto-area software company that he was heading out for a run, they would ask him whether he was training for a race. ‘No,’ he would tell them, ‘I have to go work on my stickman.'” When your workouts turn into a work of art.