Dutch skater Jutta Leerdam continued her winning streak in the 1,000 meters at the World Cup competitions in Obhiro, Japan. Leerdam was happy that she again won the 1,000 meters, though she did it “on autopilot.” The 24-year-old world champion’s mind is elsewhere due to family circumstances. It also went wrong in the 500 meters, but it doesn’t really matter …
It was 11 days before Christmas in 2018, and Amazon’s warehouse in Shakopee, Minnesota, was operating at full tilt. As a “picker,” his job was to hover at the dim perimeter of a cyclone fence and retrieve customers’ orders from the robot-borne storage pods that came to his station. You know, ‘3:57 … 3:58 …’” he recalls, “just getting really …