Archive - Lama's Newsletter

Industrials and other notes

(And hello! It's been a while)

May 8, 2023 •

May 2019

013: Hacking CPAP machines, parents are flat-earthers, and free learning projects

May 11, 2019 •

April 2019

March 2019

Quotes from The Collected Schizophrenias

I really enjoyed reading Esmé Wang's The Collected Schizophrenias. It's a short book, only about 200 pages, and you could probably finish it in a day…

Mar 11, 2019 •

February 2019

Death of the polymath

A few months ago, I got a grant from Tyler Cowen at Emergent Ventures to go to San Francisco and find a mentor (side note: please consider applying!).

Feb 19, 2019 •

December 2018

009: Scrabble scoring, GMU's historical hoaxes, and the 30-year-old Amiga machine

Plus, the Pneutube!

Dec 17, 2018 •

November 2018

008: Diminishing scientific returns, the dark store theory, and publications vs libraries

Plus, the French government's crack down on tax fraud via Instagram

Nov 18, 2018 •

007: Girl Scouts sue Boy Scouts, Caselaw Access Project API, and Moral Infrastructure

Long live the Carbon tax

Nov 11, 2018 •

How the Model T drove hats out of fashion

And how technology affects society

Nov 3, 2018 •

October 2018

006: Netflix's 'false advertising,' investgating Bloomberg's supermicro claims, and scooters reducing cars

Plus, you can now search the bitcoin blockchain with DuckDuckGo

Oct 28, 2018 •

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