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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...
How Startups Get Viral
November 19, 2025
Tech people adore Stripe. Linear’s old branding infected GenAI so much all its landing pages look purple. Arc Browser received glowing coverages from top-...
Five Finds: Salami, Hiking, Deadly Everest
November 15, 2025
Salami, Hiking, Deadly Everest
Retro Tech Became the New Luxury
November 14, 2025
YouTube is full of videos with people trying to replace their iPhone with half a dozen devices. They carry an iPod for music, a dedicated camera to take...
Five Finds: Insane Engineering of the Human Brain
November 7, 2025
The marvellous Concorde, why nobody can ban tobacco and people with no imagination
Five Finds: Stealth Campers and Retro
October 31, 2025
Man loves surfing so much he lives on a beach and capitalism brights back film cameras.
How Big is TBPN?
October 30, 2025
Zuckerbeg. Nadella. Benioff. An exclusive announcement from Microsoft. TBPN has been blasting from all corners of tech Twitter lately. It’s a technology...
Five Finds: American Plane Made of Soviet Metal
October 24, 2025
SR-71 was built with Soviet titanium, modern cars look the same and beavers are cool.
Five Finds: The Uglification of the World
October 17, 2025
The uglification of the world, what animal to look for on the wine bottle, and how Uniqlo got to $20Bn in revenue.
Five Finds: The Worst Year to Be Alive
October 10, 2025
The worst year to be alive, lofi anime, and overachieving kids.
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