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In the eighteen-nineties, Moses B. Cotsworth, an Englishman who worked as a statistician for a British railway company, began pondering the possibility of a more efficient calendar, one that would make it easier to compare revenues from month to month and week to week. He devised the International Fixed Calendar, which consisted of thirteen months of twenty-eight days each, with one extra day following the last day of December and one more, at the end of June, in leap years. The new month, between June and July, would be called Sol.
How the Week Organizes and Tyrannizes Our Lives
newyorker.com
A user of the banking system will often have to redundantly explain themselves when they hit Tier Three, for the same reason as they did when they hit Tier Two. However, because they’re no longer operating in time-starved tickets-per-hour crunch mode, Tier Three has richer access to systems at the bank and more ability to forensically reconstruct procedural history, including history that is not ledgered. They will frequently do this both to do their jobs and to do the legwork for other professionals at the bank who might have decisionmaking authority in some cases but do not have the access or acumen to pull together a view of a case from disparate systems.
Seeing Like a Bank
bitsaboutmoney.com
A nomenclatural change from Apple that I fully endorse is that they’re now calling the 1× camera the “main camera” instead of the “wide camera”.
Daring Fireball
daringfireball.net
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