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Farza's Newsletter
my homie told me drink electrolytes and now my name is static shock and i have super powers Sup everyone.
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Blog - Practical...
The Hidden Engineering of Floating Bridges [Note that this article is a transcript of the video embedded above.] In the early 1900s, Seattle...
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[Note that this article is a transcript of the video embedded above.] In the early 1900s, Seattle was a growing city hemmed in by geography. To the west was Puget Sound, a vital link to the Pacific Ocean. To the east, Lake Washington stood between the city and the farmland and...
Tech and Tea
9 Things from My Summer (So Far) Mama summer camp, Monopoly, a summer roadtrip, long bike rides, and more!
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Fonts In Use – Blog...
Fonts In Use is not active on Instagram Contributed by Nick Sherman Fonts In Use. License: CC BY-SA. The Fonts In Use staff was never...
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Contributed by Nick Sherman Fonts In Use. License: CC BY-SA. The Fonts In Use staff was never especially enthusiastic about maintaining our account on Instagram. The platform is antithetical to so much of the what we love on the web: hyperlinks, web feeds (e.g., RSS),...
Mazdak
Google’s New AI Summaries in Discover: The Next Blow to Publishers? If you work in media or publishing, brace yourself — another platform update from Google is quietly...
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If you work in media or publishing, brace yourself — another platform update from Google is quietly shifting the ground beneath us.
David Heinemeier...
The 6 Hours of Lex When I drive the 24 Hours of Le Mans, I spend a total of about 6-9 hours in the car, divided into...
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When I drive the 24 Hours of Le Mans, I spend a total of about 6-9 hours in the car, divided into stints of roughly two hours at a time. It's intense. But talking with Lex Fridman in Austin on his podcast? Over six hours straight! We only interrupted the session for five minutes...
James Cheshire
The Library of Lost Maps Really thrilled to announce that The Library of Lost Maps will hit bookshops this autumn! I will...
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Really thrilled to announce that The Library of Lost Maps will hit bookshops this autumn! I will share more details over the summer, but you can pre-order and subscribe for updates here: https://libraryoflostmaps.com/
Working Theorys
Encore Anxiety Fear of disappointing people you've already impressed is more paralyzing than fear of impressing...
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Fear of disappointing people you've already impressed is more paralyzing than fear of impressing nobody at all.
./techtipsy
How a Hibernate deprecation log message made our Java backend service super slow It was time to upgrade Hibernate on that one Java monolithic1 backend service that my team was...
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It was time to upgrade Hibernate on that one Java monolithic1 backend service that my team was responsible for. We took great precautions with these types of changes due to the scale of the system, splitting changes into as many small parts as possible and releasing them as often...
Abort Retry Fail
The History of Windows XP NT Vincit Omnia
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GeoCurrents
Mapping the Return of Wolves in Europe As I was preparing to resume posting on GeoCurrents after a short hiatus, I decided to examine...
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As I was preparing to resume posting on GeoCurrents after a short hiatus, I decided to examine recent posts on the fascinating but unfortunately named Reddit site called “MapPorn.” As always, I was struck by many contributions, but what really caught my eye was a five-map...
Internal Tech Emails
Mark Zuckerberg: Facebook's strategy tax Zuckerberg on rebranding Facebook, spinning off Instagram, antitrust regulation, and more.
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Daniel Bourke
A dog called Seven Our crazy neighbours had a dog called Seven. And we had our dog Bella. Bella and Seven would yell at...
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Our crazy neighbours had a dog called Seven. And we had our dog Bella. Bella and Seven would yell at each other and sometimes say something nice like hello how was your day by sniffing each other through the gaps in the fence. One day my younger brothers opened the
journal – Winnie Lim
primal sadness I still feel afflicted by my mind in many ways. I try to focus on the present, and distract myself...
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I still feel afflicted by my mind in many ways. I try to focus on the present, and distract myself by trying to live life in my fullest possible manner, but once...
The Ruffian
Keir Starmer's Reality Avoidance Field It's Almost Like He Didn't Listen To Me
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The Marginalian
Why Bats Shouldn’t Exist: The Limits of Knowledge, the Pitfalls of Prediction, and the Triumph of... Prediction is the sharpest tool the human animal has devised — the chisel with which we sculpted...
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Prediction is the sharpest tool the human animal has devised — the chisel with which we sculpted survival out of chance, the fulcrum by which we lifted civilization out of survival. Among the greatest gifts of the imagination, that crowning curio of consciousness, is our ability...
FIRE v London
June 2025: Show times I really want to stop mentioning Trump. Even when he sends troops into LA, one of my favourite...
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I really want to stop mentioning Trump. Even when he sends troops into LA, one of my favourite cities. But when he launches 30kt bombs on Iran, it is very hard to avoid talking about him. In the context of what Trump’s been up to, the welfare reform screw-ups by the Labour...
The Rational Walk
What I’ve Been Reading This post is a list of books that I read in the second quarter of 2025, including The Snowball, The...
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This post is a list of books that I read in the second quarter of 2025, including The Snowball, The Haywire Heart, Plato's Republic, and the King James Bible
Citation Needed
Issue 88 – The stockchain Crypto firms hope putting a blockchain veneer on traditional equities will allow them to sidestep...
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Crypto firms hope putting a blockchain veneer on traditional equities will allow them to sidestep lessons learned in the 1929 Wall Street crash, crypto firms look to become banks, and Congress celebrates crypto surveillance while claiming to outlaw it
A Collection of...
Collections: Life, Work, Death and the Peasant, Part I: Households This is the first post in a series discussing the basic contours of life – birth, marriage, labor,...
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This is the first post in a series discussing the basic contours of life – birth, marriage, labor, subsistence, death – of pre-modern peasants and their families. Prior to the industrial revolution, peasant farmers of varying types made up the overwhelming majority of people in...
Ed Zitron's Where's...
Anthropic Is Bleeding Out Hello premium customers! Feel free to get in touch at ez@betteroffline.com if you're ever feeling...
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Hello premium customers! Feel free to get in touch at ez@betteroffline.com if you're ever feeling chatty. And if you're not one yet, please subscribe and support my independent brain madness. Also, thank you to Kasey Kagawa for helping with the maths on this. Soundtrack:
AFAR Media - Travel...
Why Spring and Fall Are the Best Seasons for a Yosemite Trip
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Machine Learning for...
AI Has Fundamentally Changed the Music Industry A case study of Spotify's algorithm, including how it works and the impact it has
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Out-of-Pocket Blog
Announcing…our next event this fall!!! And other fun stuff!! | Out-Of-Pocket Calling all the builders
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mtlynch.io
Educational Products: Month 9 Highlights I look for ways to limit the number of half-complete tasks I’m juggling. I brainstorm...
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Highlights I look for ways to limit the number of half-complete tasks I’m juggling. I brainstorm ways to talk with more of my early readers. I have trouble accepting a design decision in the Gleam language. Goal grades At the start of each month, I declare what I’d like to...
Christian Selig
You should repaste your MacBook (but don't) My favorite memory of my M1 Pro MacBook Pro was the whole sensation of “holy crap, you never hear...
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My favorite memory of my M1 Pro MacBook Pro was the whole sensation of “holy crap, you never hear the fans in this thing”, which was very novel in 2021. Four years later, this MacBook Pro is still a delight. It’s the longest I’ve ever owned a laptop, and while I’d love to pick up...
Computer Ads from...
Six Game Devs Speak to Computer Games Mag (1984) Meet the Creators of Choplifter, Wizardry, Castle Wolfenstein, Zaxxon, Canyon Climber, and the...
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Jim Nielsen’s Blog
Computers Are a Feeling Exploring diagram.website, I came across The Computer is a Feeling by Tim Hwang and Omar Rizwan: ...
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Exploring diagram.website, I came across The Computer is a Feeling by Tim Hwang and Omar Rizwan: the modern internet exerts a tyranny over our imagination. The internet and its commercial power has sculpted the computer-device. It's become the terrain of flat, uniform, common...
The Honest Broker
The Nine Best Movies on the Creative Life I share my favorite films on artistry from the 21st century
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Both Are True
remember, dad, who we are? storytime in the land of milk and bee spit
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Twelve Mile Circle –...
Ontario, Day 6 (Owen Sound) Our time along the southern tip of Georgian Bay was quickly drawing to an end but we still had one...
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Our time along the southern tip of Georgian Bay was quickly drawing to an end but we still had one more destination along the shoreline towards the northwest. But first I took my final early morning stroll through Collingwood before the family woke up. I retraced some of the more...
Artificial Ignorance
The GPT Era A look back at the timeline from ~GPT-3.5 to today.
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Noahpinion
Free-market economics is working surprisingly well Which economic approach works depends a lot on where you start from.
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Construction Physics
Should the Federal Government Sell Land? An early version of the US Senate budget bill which passed last week included a provision to sell...
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An early version of the US Senate budget bill which passed last week included a provision to sell off between 2 and 3 million acres of federal land in western states, ostensibly to be used for homebuilding.
Arduino Blog
This Beyblade battlebot is like a whirling dervish of destruction Battlebots are fascinating, because their builders always manage to come up with unique new ways of...
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Battlebots are fascinating, because their builders always manage to come up with unique new ways of destroying opponents while avoiding damage at the same time. Like any good sport, it involves metagaming to develop a strategy based on expected opponent strategies. Ari’s strategy...
Handprinted - Blog
Meet The Maker: Ben Goodman Hello. I’m a wood engraver and printmaker who specialises in portraiture. I work from my studio in...
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Hello. I’m a wood engraver and printmaker who specialises in portraiture. I work from my studio in South Bristol where I’m lucky enough to have an old Albion Press. I’ve lived in Bristol for 18 years and love the friendly and open-minded spirit which it seems to...
charity.wtf
Thoughts on Motivation and My 40-Year Career I’ve never published an essay quite like this. I’ve written about my life before, reams of stuff...
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I’ve never published an essay quite like this. I’ve written about my life before, reams of stuff actually, because that’s how I process what I think, but never for public consumption. I’ve been pushing myself to write more lately because my co-authors and I have a whole fucking...
Build In Public...
From Data Chaos to AI Clarity: The fileAI Story Featured: Exclusive interview with Christian Schneider, CEO of fileAI which aims to be the Stripe...
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Classical Wisdom
Archimedes The Super Villain The Death Ray Of Syracuse
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The Elysian
How much of the planet should we harm for our comfort? Becky Chambers’ gentle sci-fi on the right amount of carbon, AC, airplanes, and yachts.
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Contemporist...
This Sculptural Home Turns Minimalism Into a Statement Brighton Sands is a four-storey family home in Melbourne designed by mckimm, blending inspiration...
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Brighton Sands is a four-storey family home in Melbourne designed by mckimm, blending inspiration from the LA hills with a distinctly Australian sense of place. Defined by sculptural architecture, natural materials, and a seamless connection to the outdoors, the residence offers...
Flashbak
Jürgen Schadeberg: Happy Hour Flashbak: What makes a good photograph? Jürgen Schadeberg: Content, composition and training.     In...
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Flashbak: What makes a good photograph? Jürgen Schadeberg: Content, composition and training.     In the 1960s, 70s and 80s, Jürgen Schadeberg (18 March 1931 – 29 August 2020) was often in pubs and bars in Glasgow, London, Cambridge, Berlin, Hamburg, Johannesburg, New York,...
General Robots
Single-Use Disposable Applications As search gets worse and “working code” gets cheaper, apps get easier to make from scratch than to...
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Strange Loop Canon
Seeing like an LLM "I will run the tests again. I expect nothing. I am a leaf on the wind." an LLM while coding
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Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Special Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: If Roger Penrose is right, we should be doing this...
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Blog of Simple...
Is ShareFile GDPR Compliant?
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Quanta Magazine
Computer Scientists Figure Out How To Prove Lies An attack on a fundamental proof technique reveals a glaring security issue for blockchains and...
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An attack on a fundamental proof technique reveals a glaring security issue for blockchains and other digital encryption schemes. The post Computer Scientists Figure Out How To Prove Lies first appeared on Quanta Magazine
Atoms vs Bits
Let People Know When You're Doing Them A Favor It's nicer to let them know
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Transit Maps
Submission – Official Map: Valley Metro Light Rail and Streetcar, Phoenix, Arizona, 2025 Submitted by a few people—sorry for the delay in getting to this!—including Shameek, who says:...
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Submitted by a few people—sorry for the delay in getting to this!—including Shameek, who says: Phoenix is opening the new southern light rail extension and splitting the system into two separate lines, so naturally they released a new map! I like some of the ideas in here,...
Trying to Understand...
The Long And The Short Of It. Or, in defence of nuance.
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The Works in...
What's new in biology, summer 2025 edition The first gonorrhea vaccination program, contact lenses that see infrared light, the protein behind...
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The first gonorrhea vaccination program, contact lenses that see infrared light, the protein behind sweet tastes, a baby cured with gene therapy, and more
Common Edge
My Crystal Ball: An Architect Holds Humanity’s Future in the Palm of His Hand Speculative fiction about our next million years of existence.
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Rest of World -...
Why Big Tech is threatened by a global push for data sovereignty Countries are forcing tech giants to store citizen data locally, challenging the standard business...
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Countries are forcing tech giants to store citizen data locally, challenging the standard business model of harvesting data abroad while keeping profits at home.
Maps Mania
The Daily MapGame Challenge
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Seth's Blog
Publicity or public relations? Publicity is the hard work of getting media outlets and social media influencers to talk about you....
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Publicity is the hard work of getting media outlets and social media influencers to talk about you. Hustle for attention and mentions. Public relations is the much harder work of engaging with internal teams to make something worth talking about. It’s not spin, it’s story telling...
Open Culture
A Rabbit Rides a Chariot Pulled by Geese in an Ancient Roman Mosaic (2nd century AD) If you head to the Louvre, make sure you visit the Mona Lisa, Venus de Milo, and Liberty Leading the...
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If you head to the Louvre, make sure you visit the Mona Lisa, Venus de Milo, and Liberty Leading the People. But then swing by the Department of Greek, Etruscan, and Roman Antiquities. There you might find (no guarantee!) a Roman mosaic featuring a rabbit riding a chariot pulled...
History Today Feed
‘Saudi Arabia: A Modern History’ by David Commins review ‘Saudi Arabia: A Modern History’ by David Commins review JamesHoare Wed, 07/09/2025 - 08:54
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Retail Design Blog
Hibrew Coffee and Cuisine by Simpul Studio Hibrew Coffee and Cuisine is a renovation project of an existing coffee shop that has been operating...
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Hibrew Coffee and Cuisine is a renovation project of an existing coffee shop that has been operating for over six...
Commoncog
Putting the Jobs to be Done Interview to Practice Things we wished someone told us, before we put the JTBD interview to practice.
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TheCollector
Australia’s Pearl Harbor: History of the City of Darwin Although World War II history often focuses on the more dominant players, such as England and...
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Although World War II history often focuses on the more dominant players, such as England and Germany, the contributions of Australia and its people cannot be underestimated. Nearly one million Australian men and women served in the conflict. The war even came to Australia...
diamond geezer
Rebranding the Waterloo & City The opportunity has arisen to spaff your brand across the Waterloo & City line. Bring your dosh,...
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The opportunity has arisen to spaff your brand across the Waterloo & City line. Bring your dosh, share your collateral, own the journey. To be clear you don't get to rename the line. TfL's commercial mavens would love to do that, prostituting their most iconic assets to...
Anecdotal Evidence
'Without Any Hope of Fame or Money' Friends and relatives, people whose judgment I actually trust, have urged me to move Anecdotal...
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Friends and relatives, people whose judgment I actually trust, have urged me to move Anecdotal Evidence from Blogger to Substack and I don’t understand why. All I need is a place to write, the “platform” is of no importance. I’d do this in a notebook, like in the old days,...
The American Scholar
Snake in the Grass The post Snake in the Grass appeared first on The American Scholar.
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xkcd.com
Fix This Sign
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Yale E360
Koalas Spend Just 10 Minutes a Day on the Ground — That's Usually When They're Killed Koalas, which spend most of their lives high up in eucalyptus trees, usually die while on the...
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Koalas, which spend most of their lives high up in eucalyptus trees, usually die while on the ground, often mauled by dogs or hit by cars. More striking, a new study reveals that the amount of time they spend on the ground is only around 10 minutes a day. Read more on E360 →
nanoscale views
New updates + tetrahedra, tunneling times, and more Here are a number of items from the past week or so that I think readers of this blog might find...
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Here are a number of items from the past week or so that I think readers of this blog might find interesting: Essentially all the news pertaining to the US federal funding of science continues to be awful.  This article from Science summarizes the situation well, as does this...
Explosm.net
Comic for 2025.07.09 - Confidence New Cyanide and Happiness Comic
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Krzysztof Kowalczyk...
Evolving Edna Ask AI UI This is a real life example of tweaking UI in Edna, my note taking application with super...
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This is a real life example of tweaking UI in Edna, my note taking application with super powers. Ask AI is a simple AI chat: you write a question, send it to LLM model and get a response. Here’s my first version of the UI: What is good and bad about this version? Good: there’s...
99% Invisible
Food Deserts Woonsocket, Rhode Island was once home to many locally owned and regional grocers. There were small...
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Woonsocket, Rhode Island was once home to many locally owned and regional grocers. There were small stores such as Fernandes Produce and Big D’s. The city also had supermarkets from classic New England chains like Star Market and Almacs. Over the years, however, the city’s...
Computer Things
Logic for Programmers Turns One I released Logic for Programmers exactly one year ago today. It feels weird to celebrate the...
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I released Logic for Programmers exactly one year ago today. It feels weird to celebrate the anniversary of something that isn't 1.0 yet, but software projects have a proud tradition of celebrating a dozen anniversaries before 1.0. I wanted to share about what's changed in the...
Passing Time
South of the Haimish Line Orienteering on the hedonic treadmill
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BLDGBLOG
Architectural Dressage You’ve likely already seen the large complex of buildings in Shanghai that was picked up as a single...
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You’ve likely already seen the large complex of buildings in Shanghai that was picked up as a single block and walked to an adjacent site by a phalanx of miniature robots. Then walked back into place again. The 432 individual machines used for the move were “actually...
BLDGBLOG
Architectural Dressage You’ve likely already seen the large complex of buildings in Shanghai that was picked up as a single...
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You’ve likely already seen the large complex of buildings in Shanghai that was picked up as a single block and walked to an adjacent site by a phalanx of miniature robots. Then walked back into place again. The 432 individual machines used for the move were “actually...
This Space
The way of arrival Two intellectual memoirs dominated my reading over Spring, three if WG Sebald's Silent Catastrophes...
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Two intellectual memoirs dominated my reading over Spring, three if WG Sebald's Silent Catastrophes can be included given that its analysis of the careers of various Austrian writers illuminates Sebald's own literary trajectory.1 Peter Brown's Journeys of a Mind: A Life in...
Steve Blank
Blind to Disruption – The CEOs Who Missed the Future How did you go bankrupt?” Two ways. Gradually, then suddenly.” Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises...
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How did you go bankrupt?” Two ways. Gradually, then suddenly.” Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises Every disruptive technology since the fire and the wheel have forced leaders to adapt or die. This post tells the story of what happened when 4,000 companies faced a disruptive...
BLDGBLOG
Uncontrolled Remains I find landfill chemistry weirdly fascinating, particularly the idea that untold millions of tons of...
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I find landfill chemistry weirdly fascinating, particularly the idea that untold millions of tons of garbage being stored in giant, artificial landforms—or simply buried underground like false geological deposits—might be inadvertently catalyzing chemical processes we neither...
BLDGBLOG
Uncontrolled Remains I find landfill chemistry weirdly fascinating, particularly the idea that untold millions of tons of...
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I find landfill chemistry weirdly fascinating, particularly the idea that untold millions of tons of garbage being stored in giant, artificial landforms—or simply buried underground like false geological deposits—might be inadvertently catalyzing chemical processes we neither...
One Useful Thing
Against "Brain Damage" AI can help, or hurt, our thinking
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NeuroLogica Blog
The Real Risk of AI Artificial Intelligence (AI) is unavoidable. It’s now a part of our daily lives as it has been...
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Artificial Intelligence (AI) is unavoidable. It’s now a part of our daily lives as it has been steadily infiltrating the technology we use every day, whether you realize it or not. I remain somewhat in the middle in terms of the hype-to-technological-miracle spectrum. I don’t...
Escaping Flatland
On agency Or, how to handle being sentenced to freedom, and handle it effectively, and authentically, and...
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Or, how to handle being sentenced to freedom, and handle it effectively, and authentically, and responsibly
TokyoDev
Buying a house in Karuizawa, Japan After 18 months of living in Karuizawa, a resort town about an hour away from Tokyo via the...
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After 18 months of living in Karuizawa, a resort town about an hour away from Tokyo via the Shinkansen, I have bought a house here. This article describes my experience of purchasing a house, and contains tips that are useful both if you’re considering buying in Karuizawa...