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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!).
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006: Netflix's 'false advertising,' investgating Bloomberg's supermicro claims, and scooters reducing cars
Plus, you can now search the bitcoin blockchain with DuckDuckGo
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Industrials and other notes
(And hello! It's been a while)
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004: Open source support, rappers of LinkedIn, and stalking customers
Two days late, but a fresh set of links is here!
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012: Notes on lunch with Alan Kay, the bouba/kiki effect, and Weekly Brew with Ryan Delk
Greetings!
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011: "China Shock" jobs, equations for fun, and philosophy in k-pop
Greetings!
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How the Model T drove hats out of fashion
And how technology affects society
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013: Hacking CPAP machines, parents are flat-earthers, and free learning projects
Greetings!
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007: Girl Scouts sue Boy Scouts, Caselaw Access Project API, and Moral Infrastructure
Long live the Carbon tax
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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…
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010: Psychometrics, optogenetics, and Rich Barton's playbook
Greetings!
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009: Scrabble scoring, GMU's historical hoaxes, and the 30-year-old Amiga machine
Plus, the Pneutube!
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