Five Finds: People Frozen in Time
Primitive tribes still live on practically all continents, the story on how phones lost their antennas and should I buy an old iPod?
Five Finds: Somebody Blew Up a Bomb
Yesterday, I found myself sitting on a cliff with a brisket sandwich, wondering when this would end. Thankfully, today it's Friday! The Vela Incident This is...
Five Finds: You Can Drive on Any Side
Have a great Friday and the most perfect weekend! When Sweden switched sides Most countries got stuck with whatever side of the road they started using for...
Apple Watch is Better than Whoop and Oura
Last week, Apple relented and introduced the Sleep Score for the first time since adding sleep monitoring to the Apple Watch. This is huge, since they were...
Five Finds: Clone The Winning Horse
Have a great Friday! Here are some links to kill the end of it. This guy cloned his winning horse Remember Dolly? Turns out cloning is accessible right now,...
The Best Brands for Enthusiasts
Good things are approximately ten times better than the average thing you can buy. In each category. The real challenge is finding them. Wirecutter was...
Find Finds: Your Plane Flies on French Fries Oil
The most interesting things I read about this week.
Five Finds: The 6 Nukes We Lost (And Never Found)
I'm launching Five Finds, a newsletter that will provide five amusingly interesting links I found each week.
The Broken Promises of Substack
Earlier in July, Substack announced a $100M funding round, bringing its valuation to $1.1 billion. Substack has built an entirely new media ecosystem by...
How Much Spotify Pays Artists
Few things get people so worked up as Spotify’s payouts to artists. Every time this topic comes up on Twitter or Threads, you can be sure there will be...
The Limits of the Network State
The Network State is a concept popularized by the entrepreneur and investor Balaji Srinivasan. These network states begin as highly-aligned online...
I Can't Stop Using Dia Browser
I was a heavy user of Arc and abandoned it only after it was “sunset”. The app still works, of course, but I used to experience a few glitches and understood...
Highlights from Apple in China
I have finished Apple in China by Patrick McGee, a fantastic book dissecting the history of manufacturing and breaking up some common myths around it....
IMAX is a Superbrand
How many companies building cinema projectors do you know? I bet you know at least one, and it’s called IMAX. You’ve heard the name when you watched “Dune“,...
The Myths of Venture Capital
Josh Miller, CEO of The Browser Company in his latest post on finally sunsetting Arc: So when people ask how venture capital influenced us — or why we didn’t...
Why I Don’t Like CarPlay
Get into the car, take out the phone, put in into a flimsy piece of plastic that is somehow attached to the vents, connect the charger. Navigate to your...
The Sad State of Web Browsers
If you’re reading this, chances are you’re doing so through a web browser—one of the most critical pieces of software on your device. Browsers have morphed...
Why People Leak to the Media
Meta recently fired 20 employees for leaking confidential information. The company has become notorious for employees spilling details from all-hands...
iPads Are Now Both Expensive and Useless
The iPad is in a weird place right now. On one hand, the iPad Pro M4 is an extremely powerful and futuristic piece of glass with enormous power inside. On...
Why Greg Egan is The Greatest Living Sci-Fi Author
Jules Verne. Isaac Asimov. Greg Egan. These are my favorite sci-fi writers of all time. Each one represents a separate age in human history and science...
