Random Interesting Things. #4

Electricity currents are measured in 3 different states: Joules, Volts, and Watts … Raise your hand if you know what these mean.

1. Joules is the measurement of energy or work.

2. Volts is the potential energy that an outlet could handle.

3. Watts is amount of energy you are actually using.

Every planet in our solar system could fit between the distance of Earth and the moon. You can include Pluto in the measurement or not, depending on where you stand on it being a planet.

The average song length per year has increased since the 1950s. It used to revolve around the 3 minute mark because a flat record made between 1858 and the late 1950s could only hold between 3 minutes if it was a 10 inch record, and 4 minutes if it was a 12 inch record. The physics of an industry are always the original creative constraint. Over time, we figured out ways to drive the cost of creating a record down so much that I think the length of a song is driven now by the attention span of a human.

There are many industries where we still live in the pre-existing world of standards. The width of a road is still the same as when we were riding horse and carriages, so the car was designed with that in mind, rather than designing roads to fit the car.

Where else is this true?

If you had $1m, and you were able to make 10% a year on that money, in 65 years you would have near $500m… holy wowza.