💬 Quoted…​​ “Living the life of Riley.”

What an American living in the 1910s would use to describe a person leading an untroubled, happy life, per a recently-published list of old slang terms from Mental Floss. Other notable examples include:

• An ‘againster’ = hater or contrarian
• A ‘conchie’ = derisive term for conscientious objector to WWI
• ‘Up to putty’ = worthless or futile
• A case of the ‘woofits’ = depression or malaise
• A ‘beezer’ = either an intelligent person, or a nose

⏰ Stat of the Day: US employees working remotely in 2021 and 2022 saved an average of 55 minutes of commute time each workday, according to a paper published Monday by the National Bureau of Economic Research.

🤯 Did You Know?... Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert, the duo who directed the Oscar nomination-leading Everything Everywhere All at Once, also directed DJ Snake and Lil Jon's “Turn Down For What” music video. (Another fun fact: The Daniels’ first feature film, Swiss Army Man, premiered at Sundance.)

📖 Worth a Read: I outsourced my memory to AI for 3 weeks → (Business Insider)