Power Nap #7

Funny and thought-provoking media from Kate and her team for a quick, refreshing pick-me-up.

Mar 14, 2023

Things We Found Interesting

1. Mast Year: A year where there is an unusually high amount of acorns or other nuts. Why do trees do this? To produce so many nuts that nut-eating animals can't possibly eat them all, ensuring some will grow into trees. Trees are smart.

2. Tradle: Like Wordle, except you get six guesses as to which country has the exports shown on the tree map. It's really a geography game, because after each guess they give you the direction and distance (in KMs) to the right country.

3. A collection of short antidotes from Morgan Housel. Here was our favorite:

Building the transcontinental railroad in the 1860s was too costly for any private company to manage. So Congress offered subsidies: $16,000 per mile on flat land and up to $96,000 per mile in the mountains. As to what was considered “flat” vs. “mountain” land, Congress relied on the opinion of geologists. One particularly malleable geologist named Josiah Whitney was persuaded to declare that the Sacramento Valley – flat as a pancake – was actually the geological beginning of the Sierra Nevada mountains, and was therefore a mountainous region. The railroad companies were so grateful for the sleight of hand they persuaded the California legislature to rename the state’s tallest mountain Mount Whitney. Everything is for sale.

4. Inflation Update: The price of food continues to rise, while gas prices seem to be stabilizing:

5. Further Inflation Update: No one is immune. Not even the Tooth Fairy. (and we thought we were being generous by giving Scout a fiver – that's below market!!)

Things From The Gram

It's #NTKtakethemamealmarch and Costco must have known
Berta made her first reel on the #NTKtakethemamealmarch theme and she's clearly a natural
If Kate brought you a meal in 2022, there was a 99% chance this was it. She made one thing, and everything else came from the store!
Nate enjoyed this Youtube video about sounding editing and why you can't understand/hear the dialogue in lots of movies/shows. (10 min watch)

Things We Devoured

Berta (Kate' mom) has a recipe she keeps on repeat: Egg Roll In a Bowl is a healthy, quick meal done in under 20 minutes. It's super customizable so you could easily make it vegetarian, paleo, etc. She tripled the recipe for our family vacation last year and everyone loved it. If Berta says it's good, we know it's true.

Nate read “If” by Rudyard Kipling, first published in 1910 as paternal advice to his son. His favorite line:

"If you can make one heap of all your winnings; And risk it on one turn of pitch-and-toss; And lose, and start again at your beginnings;

And never breathe a word about your loss;"

NTK Bracket Challenge

The NTK Team is hosting the First Annual NTK Bracket Challenge!

This is Nate's favorite time of year so we hope you'll celebrate with him 😏 It's totally free to enter and there are no rules. You don't have to follow NTK or anything. Your husband can absolutely enter! Sign up via the button below.

First Place: $150 Amazon gift card

Second Place: $75 Amazon gift card

Third Place: $50 McDonalds gift card (IYKYK)

The group name is NTK Bracket Challenge. No password, and again, free to join.

Tournament starts Thursday at noon so make sure you've signed up and submitted your picks by then! So far we have more than 1100 entries!!

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