Every year around this time of the year I collect and post annual Best Of lists and this is the second edition featuring the best snippets, the best investment writing, the greatest innovations, the top travel photos, the most mispronounced words, the best movies and books and more. See you Friday!
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26 Snippets of 2025
In 2024, the average company was 14 years old at IPO, in 2004, it was 8.
“The computational performance of leading AI supercomputers has doubled every 9 months.”
“The speed of intercontinental travel rose from about 35 kilometers per hour for large ocean liners in 1900 to 885 km/h for the Boeing 707 in 1958, an average rise of 5.6 percent a year. But that speed has remained essentially constant ever since—the Boeing 787 cruises just a few percent faster than the 707”.
“People know whether or not they want to buy a house in just 27 minutes, but it takes 88 minutes to decide on a couch.“
Today, a simple vial of blood can be used to measure more than 13,000 different proteins; ten years ago, this was nearly zero.
2025 Biggest Stories Quiz
The 20 Best Movies of 2025
Favorite Investment Writing of 2025
The 100 Must-Read Books of 2025
The Most Mispronounced Words of 2025
The 2025 Lighting Design Awards
TIME’s Top 100 Photos of 2025
Hopeful Images of 2025
National Geographic’s 2025 Pictures of the Year
Comments (3)
Gold! For the Pacific Northwest! This is great stuff and will fill in time for reading for a couple days. You always find the neatest things! Thanks, George and a Happy New Year to you and all of your family.
Good for Carl!
What a wonderful collection of links … Thanks so much.
Happy New Year!
Happy New Year to all TBB readers…8 of you!
Tonight I am going to break my bed time…again, 2 nights in a row. This is exhausting lol.
In case you missed it, the 100k CAPITAL ONE Venture X card offer ends 1/5/2026:
https://yourbestcreditcards.com/card-explorer/capital-one-venture-x-credit-card-review/?ccid=1085
Capital One cc conversions take a while to get credited to my account. Therefore, my 3 conversions for the 100k Venture X card for wife, son and daughter are not showing yet. Leaving the December cc conversion count to just 2. I look at Frequent Miler’s State of Report for the year and I am guessing the site sells thousands of cards to afford to pay salaries and benefits for 5 full time staff. The state of report for TBB is, really, this is a non-profit operation at this point and there will be layoffs…oh wait, can’t fire myself LOL.
Anyway, Friday post is coming. As I am heading into the 2 busiest weeks of my life. Sometimes I dream about my cc vendor dropping me and I post the blog epitaph. Until then, I guess, this baby keeps going…someway somehow.