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The Man Who Made Bolts Boring
On screws, agreements, and the disgruntled man who taught strangers to speak the same language
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The Rocket Engine the Soviets Couldn't Build
On full flow staged combustion, and what it means to build the hardest thing because it is the right thing
Jun 3
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What does the AI climb cost?
On abstraction, legibility, and the price of expecting too much from AI
May 23
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The Better Dutch Artist
A brief and impartial verdict on the matter of Vermeer vs. van Gogh
May 15
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My Second Brain Started Keeping a Diary
On memory architecture, accumulation, and the thing I didn't expect to feel
May 10
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The Fifteen-Cent Miracle
On the physics and supply-chain engineering of a disposable lighter
May 2
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The Lentil War
On illness, fever-dreams, and pulling the nanoscopic enemies out by hand
Apr 16
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Computing using light not transistors
If you send a beam of light through a bit of paint, you will get a mathematical transformation of the signal you sent in - for free!
Jun 8, 2025
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