Numlock Sunday: Amanda Shendruk on tackling uncertainty in a messy world

By Walt Hickey

Welcome to the Numlock Sunday edition.

This week, I spoke to Amanda Shendruk, the talented visual journalist behind the new newsletter Not-Ship. Here’s something I wrote about from it:

We’re coming up on some time off, with the Christmas and New Year’s Day holidays considered to be federal holidays in many countries. That said, it’s not all of the countries. In fact, those days are not ones that most people have off worldwide. There are 5.5 billion people who live in a country where December 25 is a public holiday, and 4.3 billion people who live in a country where January 1 is. There are a number of other holidays where lots of the world (3 billion or more) get off, including Good Friday, Eid al-Fitr, Eid al-Adha and the Prophet’s Birthday. There are also a few countries large enough that their regional celebrations make a noticeable dent, such as October 2 in India or the Lunar New Year in many East Asian countries. However, one day beats all of them. That would be May…