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Five Finds: Color TVs and Homemade Soda
April 13, 2026
NASA Image and Video Library If you need new wallpapers, NASA have great shots from the Artemis 2 mission. Eclipse photos, lunar imagery, mission footage,...
Why I've Built Syndicator
April 8, 2026
Over the last two months, I’ve done all my news reading through Syndicator. It’s an app I built, and I’m releasing it to the public now. Syndicator is a...
Five Finds: iPhones to the Moon
April 6, 2026
How iPhones Found Their Way to Space Artemis's expedition is the first time astronauts have access to recent iPhones they can use as their cameras. We will...
The State of Media 2026
March 26, 2026
In 2026, first-time founders don’t want to get on TechCrunch. They want TBPN. The Decline in Numbers News publications are down on traffic and laying off...
Shiori, A Novel Bookmarking App
March 17, 2026
Bookmarking apps are a cursed category. So many attempts, so many failures. Remember Pocket? Omnivore? All buried under the sands of indifference. And I can...
AI Won’t Kill SaaS But It Might Kill The Messy Middle
March 16, 2026
AI won’t kill the SaaS models. OpenAI itself famously runs on Slack and uses countless off-the-shelf tools. There’s simply no point in rebuilding key apps...
Five Finds: Fighting Dog Cancer with ChatGPT
March 16, 2026
Hope you had a great weekend everyone. And I'm sure you could have seen this dog story but I can't avoid sharing it regardless, it's too inspiring. Paul is...
Five Finds: Jony Ive's Ferrari
February 10, 2026
Hey team! Turns out writing a weekly email is hard. And I have a quality bar. Last week it didn't make it. I vow to never send you a boring email. Meaning...
Building Personal Software
February 4, 2026
My feeds are filled with posts praising Claude Code. People claim they feel bad if they don’t have an agent running 24/7. Developers are asking for ways to...
Five Finds: Telling Time
January 27, 2026
A bit of a shift from our regular schedule due to a sudden stomach bug (I feel better already). The 26,000-Year Astronomical Monument Hidden in Plain Sight...
Five Finds: Perfect Cola and Roman Silver
January 19, 2026
Hope your week has started great! Perfectly Replicating Coca Cola (It Took Me A Year) If Coca-Cola patented its recipe, they'd have a monopoly on cola but...
Founders’ Guide to Comms
January 13, 2026
If you’re a founder, neglecting public communications is a drag on your business. It’s not something you should focus on primarily (that’s what rage baiters...
Five Finds: Fuel Arrow on Lunar Rover
January 12, 2026
Moylan's memo to Ford and the Lunar Rover
Five Finds: Be Bored
January 5, 2026
Deathly auroras, unions against music, peanuts
Five Finds: Lights and Impossible Color
December 29, 2025
Country ligths and the impossible color
Why Growth Matters
December 17, 2025
A lot of left-leaning people refuse to value the economic growth on its own. To many of them, growth is something negative. A poisoned concept used by...
Five Finds: The Pan-American Gap
December 15, 2025
A hole in the Pan-American Highway, CIA lost a nuclear device, and the rest is history.
The AI Price Hike
December 7, 2025
We should be in a recession. Interest rates jumped after COVID, the war and tariffs ruin global trade, while western countries are struggling with expensive...
Five Finds: The Weirdest Minority
December 1, 2025
The unknown minority, exploding Haribo, and what if the US invades The Hague.
Five Finds: Japanese Domestic Market
November 24, 2025
The JDM phenomenon, giant tube TVs and why all steel is radioactive. Quick update: I've decided to switch the publishing day for Five Finds to Monday. My...
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