Friday Links

1. I’ll always read a long piece about Costco. “Can the Golden Age of Costco Last?”  (We got our first rotisserie chicken from Costco this week! A whole new world!)

2. This history of the @ symbol is delightful:

The ancient Greeks were fond of a style of clay pot called an amphora. … as time went on, an amphora became a standard unit of measure.

“Merchants had to communicate the idea that ‘I’m going to sell you a certain number of amphoras of something or other at a particular price’ quite a lot,” [author Keith] Houston says. And eventually, people started drawing an “a” with a long tail wrapped around it and skipping the rest of the letters.

3. Good news everyone, I found the cure for anxiety: Screenshot of a post that reads, "The cure to anxiety is completing all the tasks you have to finish for the day early and doing them phenomenally and being physically perfect and on everyone's good side preferably even their favorite."

4. And I found something that makes SO much sense:
Screenshot of 2 posts by Patrick Cosmos. Text reads, working on a new unified theory of american reality i'm calling "everyone is twelve now" "I'm strong and I want to have like fifty kids and a farm" of course you do. You're twelve. "I don't want to eat vegetables I think steak and French fries is the only meal" hell yeah homie you're twelve. "Maybe if there's crime we should just send the army" bless your heart my twelve year old buddy