'Sleeper'
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
This is the best study ever!
Freedom to surf: workers more productive if allowed to use the internet for leisure:
Dr Brent Coker, from the Department of Management and Marketing, says that workers who engage in ‘Workplace Internet Leisure Browsing’ (WILB) are more productive than those who don’t.
I like that they made up an acronym for it. From now on, I'm going to be WILBing.
ALL HAIL THE PRET HOLIDAY LUNCH SANDWICH AND ITS AWESOMENESS.
Yum.
I'm definitely not more productive when I'm WILBing. Mainly because I use the Internet to avoid working.
Ooh, I was way wrong....
And I wasn't all that wrong! Okay, I had no idea no idea of the actual most populous cities (Istanbul? No freaking idea), but Moscow is the second most populous non-ocean-adjacent city. Total guess on my part.
I like how NYC is the 13th largest city in the world in terms of populaton, and the only other USA city to make the top 60 is Los Angeles at 47.
“People who do surf the Internet for fun at work - within a reasonable limit of less than 20% of their total time in the office - are more productive by about 9% than those who don’t,” he says.
Yeah, I think I'm probably beyond that 20% threshold.
Mexico City's got to be up there too.
I wonder if there's any correlation if you just look at post-Industrial Revolution cities. (And even there, as someone pointed out, Chicago's not as much of an outlier as all that because it is on a major shipping route. Ditto Montreal and Toronto.)
I like how NYC is the 13th largest city in the world in terms of populaton, and the only other USA city to make the top 60 is Los Angeles at 47.
When I was a kid, I think LA and Chicago were both in the world's top ten. But since then, a large number of third-world cities have seen huge population growth....
I always wonder about physical size, too -- Philadelphia's central city is tiny, but they absorbed the nearby municipalities so the city population is relatively big.
Oh, tommyrot's link does speak to that. I am fascinated by the density figures. Fascinated! India is Not Fucking Around with their urban centers, but you can see that some of those place are just large because they are physically (geographically) large.