Cautionary Tales with Tim Harford · Pushkin Industries

"And it went click" - Dawn of the Working Dead

March 13, 2026·41 min

A bedridden patient in a hospital unnerves staff by obsessively observing and documenting their activities in a notebook, which he later reveals is a time and motion study.

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