Assorted Links Monday
A quick holiday read in today's Assorted Links: passport delays, a trillion dollars in concrete repair, and robot grocers.
Since everyone wants to travel at the same time: A U.S. Department of State official says the wait time for passports is 18 weeks.
Concrete construction lasts 50-100 years, so "a multi-trillion-dollar bill is coming due right around now, in the form of concrete construction that needs noisy, dirty, expensive repair".
How many robots does it take to run a grocery store?
Episode 9 of the Econ Dev Show Podcast is out.
LinkedIn Marketing For Your EDO with Andrew Phillips
It turns out that I’ve been doing LinkedIn wrong, and probably so have you. In this episode, LinkedIn’s EDO expert Andrew Phillips sets us on the right path.

And, finally: we have a new Facebook page.
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