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Arriving Today From Factory to Front Door-Why Everything Has Changed About How and What We Buy by Christopher Mims (WSJ tech columnist) book cover, featuring six images stacked vertically: a woman of color smiling at a smart phone, birds eye view of shipping containers on a barge beside a dock, a wider shot of several of such barges, a semi truck driving through a snowy dessert, the interior of an Amazon warehouse, and last, the feet of a courier dripping a brown paper package on a doorstep with gloves.

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Arriving Today From Factory to Front Door-Why Everything Has Changed About How and What We Buy by Christopher Mims (WSJ tech columnist) book cover, featuring six images stacked vertically: a woman of color smiling at a smart phone, birds eye view of shipping containers on a barge beside a dock, a wider shot of several of such barges, a semi truck driving through a snowy dessert, the interior of an Amazon warehouse, and last, the feet of a courier dripping a brown paper package on a doorstep with gloves.
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RedtheBean (redthebean@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 21-Dec-2023 23:40:43 JST RedtheBean

I am thrilled already by the middle of the first page. Mims writes, "Explaining how tapping a button on your phone yields pretty much any consumer good you could want, at your doorstep, within twenty-four hours also necessitates explaining how all the innovations that make it possible-and the people who use them-come together in a planetary-scale clockwork mechanism whose behavior is impossible to understand without building it up from its smallest constituent parts." #newbook @mimsical 👏👏👏

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