059 - Blueberries

Author

Kyle Scheuerle
October 03, 2024

Welcome!

Welcome to thirty-two eleven (”3211”). This newsletter will entail: 3 Reads, 2 Rabbit Holes, 1 Watch, and 1 Listen — 3/2/1/1. Detailing what I have been up to, on the internet.

3 reads:

1 - The $100 million dollar startup created for skipping the line at a bar in State College.

Penn Staters don’t have to bribe the bouncer to skip the line at their favorite bar this homecoming weekend. There’s an app for that.

LineLeap, a start-up valued at $100 million, allows users to cut lines for $10 to $100 or more per person, depending on demand. State College is the app's no. 1 market.

www.inquirer.com/business/state-college-bars-lineleap-20240926.html

2 - Interesting take on minimalism.

Why I’ve tracked every single piece of clothing I’ve worn for three years

Are expensive clothes really worth their price? I took a data-supported look at how to clean up and restock your closet.

www.reaktor.com/articles/why-ive-tracked-every-single-piece-of-clothing-ive-worn-for-three-years

3 - “The use of AI combined with low-flying drones revolutionized the speed and rate at which the geoglyphs were discovered, according to a research paper published this week in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS).”

Archaeologists use AI to discover 303 unknown geoglyphs near Nazca Lines

Newly discovered figures dating back to 200BCE nearly double the number of known geoglyphs at enigmatic site

www.theguardian.com/world/2024/sep/26/nazca-lines-peru-new-geoglyphs

2 rabbit holes:

1 - Why Boomer Sooner is a yelled at Oklahoma University.

2 - One of the coolest Instagram accounts I have come across - @dyes_n_goodvibes. I recommend scrolling through all of his tie die work.

1 watch:

1 - Ashton Jeanty’s biggest fan - me.

1 listen:

1 - John Bragg is the Chairman, President, and co-CEO of Oxford Frozen Foods, a food manufacturing company he founded in 1968. The company operates the largest fruit farm in the world, with over 12,000 acres of wild blueberries. In the 1970s, he started a cable TV company that became North America’s largest privately held telecommunications company. He did all of this from a town of around one thousand people.

The Blueberry Billionaire | John Bragg

John Bragg, founder of Oxford Frozen Foods and Eastlink (the largest privately held telecommunications company in North America), shares his journey from growing

podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-blueberry-billionaire-john-bragg/id990149481?i=1000671396730

Bonus:

Cheers,