Friedman looks back at the first decade of the 21st century and wonders, “in a world of limited resources, how did I eat that much?”

Thomas Friedman writes for the International House of Pancakes Menu –

In the hyperconnected world we live in, nothing is off limits, which is to say that when the phone rang at the Beijing Hilton I picked up and knew it was one of my Arab friends immediately. “If you have something good,” he said to me, mysteriously, “You can always have something better.” I tapped the message into my notepad app. It was only later, playing golf in the fuzzy green indoor 18 hole arena reserved for visiting businessmen from Europe and America, that I realized what the proverb meant. If you have French toast, stuff it with strawberries and vanilla frosting. If you stuff your French toast, put whipped cream and fruit sauce on top. It’s as simple as that and investments work the same way. I call it the Bettering.

A leading cause of population growth. Taiwanese “big ‘n’ tall” factories are ramping up production

Nobody’s gonna get this but me, probably, but so what?

H/T to Kids Prefer Cheese