Iraq keeps its oil revenues in a Federal Reserve Bank of New York account. Roughly $10 billion flows through it each year. When the Central Bank of Iraq needs dollars, it requests a tranche, the US prints fresh $100 bills, bundles them into $400,000 bricks, loads them onto wooden
Everyone goes to Ikea for a Billy or a Kallax. Fine. But their Salone del Mobile drop this year looks like it came straight out of Dimoremilano. The most en-vogue studio in Europe right now might just be a blue-and-yellow warehouse in Älmhult.
Tamagotchi won an Ig Nobel Prize in 1997. The official citation: "for diverting millions of person-hours of work into the husbandry of virtual pets." Which is a polite way of saying a plastic egg hijacked humanity's attention and we thanked them by buying 82 million of them. One
The need to reinvent customer satisfaction tracking is unquestionable at this point... nobody wants to fill out a form anymore. It would be so much easier if you allowed me to send a 20-second voice note to describe my experience and analyze the transcript with AI. You'll get