Category: Efficiency
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How Railroads Railed Us
The standard gauge of a railroad in North America and Europe is 4′ 8.5″, or four feet, eight and a half inches. Most people will give that absolutely no thought in their entire life. Of those who do, some will think to themselves, ‘I wonder if that is based on an old unit of measure…
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Efficiency Experts and Redundancies
I was watching an episode of Chicago Fire on NBC this morning. the firehouse was being audited by an efficiency expert who was not the most welcome addition to the day to day lives of the first responders. He accompanied them on a rescue mission and after they returned to the firehouse the ‘expert’ asked…
The World According to Mitch 