Steph Smith

In 1994, Jeff Bezos famously spotted a stat that made him leave his high-paying PE job to start Amazon:

💡 The Internet was growing 2300% per year.

What are the generation-defining stats of today?

I'll post a few to kick things off...

TIL that the world's largest city, Jakarta, is sinking so rapidly that Indonesia chose a new capital (Nusantara).

42 million people. 40% of the city is already below sea level.

Sinking at a rate 15-25cm per year, 75x faster than Venice.

Wow.

Western provinces in Canada decided to drop daylight savings which is cool & all, but this is going to confuse the F outta me.

Can no longer just say Pacific, or assume that east coast is 3h ahead of west

My husband is dressed as a female character this Halloween.

In the first 15 minutes:

“This bra is so uncomfortable”
“How do you put on mascara?”
“Is there always hair in your mouth?”

💀💀💀

After living in SF for over ~4 years, I feel I can finally have this take:

Food here is nowhere near as good as NYC or Toronto. OK I said it. 🫣