Venkatesh Rao

Amazing essay series developing here from Cory. I’ve read the first few parts.

Great thread on aeroshells. Rare for a major B2B business brand account to tweet out an interesting thread :D

Good essay. Gets at why I haven’t read any contemporary literary fiction decades.

This thread is great

Good post by @mattsclancy on why starting a new field is hard. Direct economic incentives (bigger grants) are too expensive. Selling researchers on importance is tough absent an acute crisis like Covid. Cc @alexeyguzey @michael_nielsen @davidtlang

Best thread

Amazing thread

There is an excellent Sidney Poitier movie that plays with this tension. The plot unfolds first in the wilderness and then in the city, and Poitier's character remarks on this when they transition

Counter Craft was probably my favorite newsletter of the year

Otoh… watch this

Dealers of Lightning is the best book about PARC. Fumbling the Future is more of a polemic but less respectful. I’d recommend reading both if interested. Also Copies in Seconds, the og Xerography story, provides context from the copy/print history. They’re not quite villains.

Nice metaphor from @ByrneHobart ... Stripe as solid-state economics