Matt Yglesias makes a very similar case for more holidays here, including some interesting references to literature about the benefits of weekends and etc: https://www.slowboring.com/p/happy-juneteenth-observed
Basically unrelated, but I really enjoy the niche rationalist holidays of the Solstices, and to a lesser extent Petrov Day, Giving Tuesday, etc. We ought to come up with more of these!
Matt Yglesias makes a very similar case for more holidays here, including some interesting references to literature about the benefits of weekends and etc: https://www.slowboring.com/p/happy-juneteenth-observed
Basically unrelated, but I really enjoy the niche rationalist holidays of the Solstices, and to a lesser extent Petrov Day, Giving Tuesday, etc. We ought to come up with more of these!