Sunday, January 7, 2024

Starman

In 1984, NASA's Bruce McCandless was the first astronaut to venture untethered into space. McCandless used a nitrogen-propelled, hand-controlled backpack called the Manned Maneuvering Unit (MMU) to navigate from and to the Space Shuttle Challenger for 6 hours and 17 minutes. Far out, man!


Monday, January 1, 2024

Work-Life Balance


Work-life balance at the stroke of midnight on New Year's Eve . . . in 2024 and 1949.

Over the last 75 years, the single issue price of The New Yorker magazine has risen from 20 cents to $8.99, with the cumulative rate of inflation of 1190% accounting for just $2.38 of the increase.

Keep working!