I’m attending a funeral later this morning for a family friend. He died unexpectedly last week. His wife came home from having dinner with friends and found him unresponsive in bed. Based on family history, he likely suffered a heart attack. He was 64 years old and had retired less than 2 years ago.
Earlier this month, I read a post on X by an executive in the transportation industry who proudly shared that he works 91 hours per week on average (sometimes up to 109 hours), watches TV with his wife while working on his laptop with his headphones on, and that “financial success” is how he keeps score in life.
To each their own, I suppose, but it was the saddest thing I have read in a while.
There’s nothing else to say.
Moving on, here’s the supply chain and logistics news that caught my attention this week: