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November 23, 2025

104. Efficiency is an anathema to curiosity

These newsletters, regrettably, have become a little less regular this year - I’m sorry about that! There’s been a lot going on, at a pace that has exceeded my ability to compartmentalise life enough to write about them, and do everything else as well!

But, I’ve bumped into several long time readers at various IRL events in the last few weeks who’ve reminded me that they have enjoyed previous long reads, and so with a surprisingly open calendar today, I’ve sat down to pull together a few months worth of half-written commuter notes into (a hopefully) coherent episode.

Its long.

And it’s full of a lot of links to things - which might be good to dip in and out of along the way.

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