Highlights from Day23

Without a vuja de event, Warby Parker wouldn’t have existed. When the founders were sitting in the computer lab on the night they conjured up the company, they had spent a combined sixty years wearing glasses. The product had always been unreasonably expensive. But until that moment, they had taken the status quo for granted, never questioning the default price. “The thought had never crossed my mind,” cofounder Dave Gilboa says. “I had always considered them a medical purchase. I naturally assumed that if a doctor was selling it to me, there was some justification for the price.

1.combined+时间：表示加起来多长时间，比起the sum of the time简洁很多。

2.cross sb's mind：想起来某事，可以与think/figure等做替换。

造句：I was washing my clothes when the idea crossed my mind.