• End User: Amazon.com Launches Frustration-Free Packaging
  Awesome! "Amazon.com has launched “Frustration-Free Packaging,” a new initiative designed to make it easier for customers to liberate products from their packages. Amazon is focusing first on two kinds of items: those enclosed in hard plastic cases known as “clamshells” and those secured with a large number of plastic-coated wire ties, commonly used in toy packaging."
  (tags: amazon work ecommerce retail shopping)
• Family Tree of Telecommunication Companies
  "Ever wonder how your telephone company relates to other telecommunication companies? Think that AT&T’s monopoly was successfully broken up by the Feds back in the 80s? And do you know what Sprint was originally named after?"
  (tags: telecom business history phone)
• Things I wish I’d known when I was younger – Stepcase Lifehack
  "So here are some of the things I wish I had learned long ago. I hope they may help a few of you avoid the mistakes that I made back then."
  (tags: productivity lifehacks reference tips knowledge inspiration work)

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