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...
How I Stopped Hating Running
I hated running for most of my life. This year I ran 390 kilometers. I hope to do more next year. Two things changed to make this happen. First, I now live...
My Holiday Gift Guide
At the end of every year, news websites start publishing their gift guides (usually about two months in advance). It helps them gather extra traffic, and...
On Getting Older
Added another year to my age last week. For some reason, I wasn’t afraid of the infamous “30,” although turning 29 terrified me. After that happened, age...
Omnivore is Dead: Where to Go Next
Omnivore was the best read-later app for most people. It was quite modern yet had a generous free tier. Yesterday the team informed the world that they got...
Apple Doesn't Make an iPad for Me
I’m still using the 11-inch iPad Pro from 2018, and it’s great. Yes, it’s showing its age a little bit: the transitions aren’t as smooth, and the battery...
WordPress Doesn't Matter for the Future of Web
In case you haven’t been following, there’s a huge drama in the WordPress community. Matt Mullenweg, the creator of WordPress, launched a crusade against WP...
