💬 Quoted…​​ “No one joined Shopify to sit in meetings.”

The calendars of employees at Shopify just got a whole lot clearer. The e-commerce company has removed all meetings with three or more people - over 10,000 events in total - in an effort to create more time for productive work, it announced Tuesday. After a two week scheduling freeze, employees will be asked to “be really critical” about adding any meetings back to the calendar.

• The company has also reinstated ‘meeting-free Wednesday,’ and mandated that all 50+ person meetings take place on Thursdays.

🦠 Stat of the Day: Nearly 250 million Chinese residents were infected with Covid between Dec. 1 and Dec. 20, according to notes of a National Health Commission meeting viewed by the WSJ.

🤯 Did You Know?... Pot-au-feu – aka perpetual stew, forever soup, or bottomless broth – is a culinary tradition practiced around the world, where cooks continually simmer a pot full of ingredients for literally years on end. In some areas, restaurants featuring decades-old soup have become famous tourist attractions.

📖 Worth a Read: This Family Gave the World the Snow Globe → (Atlas Obscura)