This is pretty much the same philosophy behind writing effective peer-reviewed research publications in the scientific community. Not novel, but an excellent short and sweet post to put beginners in the right mindset.
BlueMaxima's Flashpoint is a fabulous archival project that is saving as many Adobe Flash games/animations as they can before browsers pull support at the end of 2020. Really cool, since Flash games are a similarly concrete slice of culture/history that will just be gone if they're not archived.
Totally depends on the speed. If we're both going 40 mph and a car is 15 feet long, then 7 car lengths takes me 1.8 seconds. But if we're going 80 mph, it's only 0.9 seconds.