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Weekend Reading: Readwise's Next Chapter, Reviewing Revolt of the Public, and the Helicopter State

Readwise launches a reading app, Scott Alexander reviews Martin Gurri, and Jonah Goldberg on the helicopter state.

Weekend Reading: Robotic Bricklaying, Medici and Thiel, and Airtable, Roblox of the Enterprise

Why we don't have robotic masons, on Medici, Thiel, and modern patronage, and Airtable as the enterprise metaverse.

Weekend Reading: DeFi Yields, Cloudflare's Internet, and Standards in Logistics

How are DeFi yields so high?, Cloudflare's next-gen internet, and the challenges of making 'APIs' for global trade.

Weekend Reading: DeFi, Worldbuilding and Antifragility, and Shiny Exteriors

DeFi + financial institutions, the importance of antifragility in worldbuilding, and things being harder than they seem.

Weekend Reading: Bubbles, the Magic of Hobbies, and Legitimacy

Byrne Hobart on the positive side of bubbles, PG on kids and hobbies, and Vitalik Buterin's analysis of how systems develop legitimacy.

Weekend Reading: American-Dream-as-a-Service, Content Marketing, the Fifth Column Reading List, and More

An interview with @austen, @lennysan on content, Earth from oblique, books of @wethefifth, and Microsoft's Power Fx.

Weekend Reading: Liberal Science, Roam42, and JTBD Examples

Defending liberal science, keyboarding in Roam with Roam42, and how to write effective Jobs to Be Done examples.

Weekend Reading: Digital Librarians, Tech Trees, and Alternate Histories in Maps

When to hire your first Chief Notion Officer, product roadmaps as tech trees, and maps of alternate histories.

Weekend Reading: Non-Experts, Non-Linear Innovation, and We Were Builders

The rise of non-experts, innovation and linearity, and our history as builders.

Weekend Reading: American Growth, JTBD, and Dissolving the Fermi Paradox

Roots of Progress on The Rise and Fall of American Growth, a guide to JTBD interviews, and nullifying the Fermi paradox.

Weekend Reading: NBA Bubble, Digital Homesteads, and Amateurs vs. Professionals

Life in the NBA bubble, homesteading on Twitter, and what separates professionals and amateurs.

Weekend Reading: Collaborative Enterprise, Algorithms, and Fifth-Gen Management

Elad Gil on collaboration in enterprise, Eugene Wei on TikTok, and Venkat Rao on a new management paradigm.

Weekend Reading: Guide to SaaS, a Few Rules, and Starting a Company Now

Stripe's guide to SaaS, a few rules from Morgan Housel, and the advantages of starting a company in a crisis.

Weekend Reading: Software Builders, Scarcity, and Open Source Communities

Airtable's latest funding, scarcity as a service, and the glory of open source.

Weekend Reading: Options Over Roadmaps, Ghost, and Spaced Repetition

Options over roadmaps, Anduril's Ghost, and Roam spaced repetition.

Weekend Reading: Notes Meta Layer, PG, and the Trump Era

A notes meta-layer, an interview with Paul Graham, and the Donald Trump era.

Weekend Reading: The First Corporation, Palantir, and Designing APIs

The birth of the joint-stock corporation, Palantir's S-1, and crafting APIs.

Weekend Reading: A New Web, Future of Higher Ed, and a Ford Concept Car

A clean start for the web, unbundling education, and a retro-future concept car.

Weekend Reading: Raising Less, the Adjacent Possible, and Fire and Motion

Raising less money, the many uses for a screwdriver, and the importance of relentless incremental progress.

Weekend Reading: Commercial Imagery, Proof Mechanisms, and Cinematic Universes

Commercial satellite imagery business models, proof mechanisms in social media, and ancient cinematic universes.

Weekend Reading: Timeful Texts, Sumo Startups, and Canva Backlinks

Matuschak and Nielsen on spaced repetition, Byrne Hobart's 'sumo startups', and Canva's backlink empire.

Weekend Reading: Disintermediating Media, Boring Tech, and DIY Lights

Substack and disintermediating media, choosing boring tech, and building DIY LED lights.

Weekend Reading: Looking Glass Politics, Enrichment, and OSM Datasets

Gurri on private vs. public emotions, McCloskey on the boom of modern progress, and Facebook's work on OpenStreetMap data.

Weekend Reading: Quarantine Talks

A few recent talks I've bookmarked on YouTube.

Weekend Reading: Honeycode, Imagery for Utilities, and BigQuery in Google Sheets

Amazon Honeycode, satellite imagery for trimming trees, and BigQuery sheets.

Weekend Reading: Children of Men, Google Earth at 15, and Slate Star Codex is Gone

Remembering Children of Men, Timoney on Google Earth, and the NYT and Slate Star Codex.

Weekend Reading: The Hour of the State, Location AI, and Mapillary Acquired

The public vs. the state, DataRobot's Location AI, and the Mapillary team joins Facebook.

Weekend Reading: Invading Markets, Sleep Deprivation, and the Observer Effect

Commandos, infantry, or police for markets, why sleep deprivation kills, and how Marc Andreessen works.

Weekend Reading: Dracones, Calendars, and Science 2.0

Adam Elkus on the current state of culture, Devon Zuegel on using calendars, and Robin Hanson on skepticism.

Weekend Reading: Post-Truth, Knowledge, and Game Graphics

Gurri on post-truth, Hayek's Pretence of Knowledge, and GTA V graphics.

Weekend Reading: Two Elites, DOS in VR, and Personal Brainstorming

Weekend Reading: Optionality, Pangaea, and Regulatory Disappointment

The trouble with optionality, modern day Pangaea, and when regulation goes wrong.

Weekend Reading: American Production, On Bikeshedding, and Glyphfinder

American industrial production, why we bikeshed, and an app for glyphs.

Weekend Reading: Beastie Boys, Links, and Screencasting

Beastie Boys Story, Linkrot for checking for valid URLs, and a guide to making screencasts.

Weekend Reading: COVID Edition

Weekend Reading: The State and the Virus, Future of Work, and Stephen Wolfram's Setup

How should the state respond to the coronacrisis?, mapping the future of work, and Stephen Wolfram's deep dive on his productivity systems.

Weekend Reading: Virtual Oncology, Waymo Data, and the Future of Programming

Oncology in the age of coronavirus, Waymo augmenting data, and Bret Victor on the Future of Programming.

Weekend Reading: Readwise with Roam, WWI Naval Intelligence, and Interaction Density

Sync Readwise to Roam, naval intel in World War I, and interaction density between desktop and mobile.

Weekend Reading: Cloud Services, Cities After the Virus, and Corona Care Map

The value of cloud services, what cities might look like after the virus, and COVID resources mapping.

Weekend Reading: Chess, COVID Tracking, and Note Types

Weekend Reading: LightSpeed, Kubernetes, and a Car-Free Market Street

Facebook rebuilds Messenger, Kubernetes is mostly overcomplicated, and how Market Street has fared with no cars.

Weekend Reading: Tagging with Turf, Mars Panorama, and Kinds of Easy

Tagging data with Turf, Curiosity high-res photo, and different kinds of easy.

Weekend Reading: Figma's Typography, Xerox Alto, and a Timeline of CoVID

Figma's attention to typographic detail, restoring a Xerox Alto, and mapping the spread of CoVID-19.

Weekend Reading: Landgrid, Quantified Self, and Tesla Teardown

Landgrid parcel data, Julian Lehr's quantified self, and Tesla's advantage.

Weekend Reading: Universe Sandbox, Mapping Math, and Japanese Companies

Simulating space physics, mapping mathematics, and centuries-old companies of Japan.

Weekend Reading: Software Dependencies, Conversational AI, and the iPad at 10

Software dependency drift, Google's latest conversational AI, and the iPad at age 10.

Weekend Reading: The Anti Portfolio, Downlink 2, and nucoll

Tracking missed investments, Downlink for satellite imagery, and nucoll Twitter network analysis tool.

Weekend Reading: Enemies of Writing, Wealth, and the Superhuman Inbox

George Packer on writing, wealth, and Superhuman as a nexus for productivity services.

Weekend Reading: Internet of Beefs, Company Culture, and Secular Cycles

Venkatesh Rao's theory of internet beef, the impacts of company culture, and Turchin's Secular Cycles.

Weekend Reading: Soleimani, Prosperous Universe, and Roam

Iran's 'shadow commander', economic simulations in space, and Roam for interlinked note taking.

Weekend Reading: Bullets in Games, Lessons of History, and BrickLink

Bullet physics in games, notes from The Lessons of History, and BrickLink's Lego database.

Weekend Reading: Tradeoffs, the Margins, and PR FAQs

Ubiquity of tradeoffs, outsiders vs. insiders, and FAQs as a tool for goal setting.

Weekend Reading: Neutrinos and Math, Waymo Progress, and Freemium in SaaS

Neutrino research leads to discoveries in linear algebra, Waymo makes progress, and Christoph Janz's rules for freemium.

Weekend Reading: The Worst Year to Be Alive, Chinese Sci-Fi, and Slack Networks

Why the 6th century was so miserable, the work of Ken Liu in spreading Chinese Sci-Fi, and Stewart Butterfield on Slack's shared channels.

Weekend Reading: MiLB, Naming Public Transit, and Soccer Playing Styles

Mapping MiLB, renaming transit stations, and how soccer players play.

Weekend Reading: Figma Multiplayer, Rice vs. Wheat, and Tuft Cells

How Figma built their multiplayer tech, rice vs. wheat and influence on culture, and how tuft cells communicate threats to the immune system.

Weekend Reading: Darwinian Gastronomy, Humboldt, and Taxes

Spicy foods and evolution, Humboldt's maps, and picking apart income taxes.

Weekend Reading: Blot, Hand-Drawn Visualizations, and Megafire Detection

A new blogging tool, the complexity of hand-drawn visualizations, and detecting wildfires from satellites.

Weekend Reading: Strasburg Tipping, RapiD, and TikTok Investigation

Stephen Strasburg tipping pitches, mapping with AI, and ByteDance under CFIUS investigation.

Weekend Reading: Ancient Text, StarLink, and Chinese Origins

DeepMind restores ancient inscriptions, StarLink expansion, and the origins of Chinese government

Weekend Reading: Baseball Graphics, the Mind Illuminated, and the Crucial Century

Comparing baseball broadcast graphics, a review of The Mind Illuminated, and thinking about the most likely sites for the Industrial Revolution.

Weekend Reading: Kipchoge's 2 Hours, Future Ballparks, and the World in Data

Kipchoge breaks 2 hours, designing future ballparks, and causes of death in the news.

Weekend Reading: Attention, Hill Climbing, and Enforcing Culture

Brain filters, hill climbing strategy, and what executives do.

Weekend Reading: Signaling, Busyness, and Magic Ink

Virtue signaling, busyness as a proxy for productivity, and Bret Victor's analysis of information design.

Weekend Reading: Ted Chiang, Renewable Energy, and ColorBox

An interview with Ted Chiang, renewables outlook around the world, and a tool for color generation.

Weekend Reading: Iceland, the Use of Knowledge, and CLI Search

Hayek on society's use of knowledge, a fuzzy finder for the command line, and beautiful footage of Iceland's geography.

Weekend Reading: Observable Edition

This week highlighting a few Observable notebooks on cryptography, bicycle chainring calculators, and generative maps.

Weekend Reading: Intellectual Humility, Scoping, and Gboard

Scoping in product development, intellectual humility in discourse, and Google's team on Gboard predictive typing.

Weekend Reading: tracejson, Euclid, and Designing at Scale

tracejson for GPS data, reimagining Euclid, and how Dropbox designs at scale.

Weekend Reading: Terrain Mesh, Designing on a Deadline, and Bookshelves

Real-time terrain mesh with MARTINI, designing Notion using Figma, and @patrickc's bookshelf.

Weekend Reading: nvUltra, Progress, and Comma.ai

nvULTRA notes editor, creating a science of progress, and George Hotz on Comma.ai.

Weekend Reading: Universal Laws, Tandem, and Computers That Can See

Universal laws of the world, Tandem for live collaboration in Slack, and the forward march of vision for computers.

Weekend Reading: Brain MRI, Flash Cards, and Movie Maps

A 7 tesla brain MRI, Anki for flashcard learning, and Andrew DeGraff's Cinemaps.

Weekend Reading: Rhythmic Breathing, Drowned Lands, and Fulcrum SSO

Rhythmic breathing for impact reduction in running, drowned lands in Upstate New York, and SSO in Fulcrum

Weekend Reading: Atlas of Moons, Opendoor and Redfin, and Thinking While Walking

National Geographic's Atlas of Moons, Opendoor and Redfin partnership, and walking to spur creativity.

Weekend Reading: Summer Solstice, Zoom Learnings, and TeachOSM

“Visualizing the summer solstice, Zoom performance at IPO, and the progress of TeachOSM.”

Weekend Reading: Satellites, Antilibraries, and Libra

Visualizing Earth's satellites, the value of an antilibrary, and Facebook's Libra.

Weekend Reading: Term Sheets, Customer Loyalty, and Epictetus

“The Discourses of Epictetus, Atlassian opens its term sheet, and why customer-first companies always win.”

Weekend Reading: The Next Mapping Company, Apple on Pros, and iPadOS Workflow

Who might be the next mapping company, Apple's response to pro demands, and working workflow on iPadOS.

Weekend Reading: Real Time Analytics, Georeferencing, and Fulcrum Code

Real-time analytics, georeferencing with QGIS, and the Fulcrum Code Editor.

Weekend Reading: Data Moats, China, and Distributed Work

Empty promises with data moats, the Chinese-US trade standoff, and all-remote company experiences.

Weekend Reading: Rays on a Run, Apple's Pivot, and Mapping Grids

The Rays are on a tear through 2 months, Apple's Services business, and using Observable for mapping Voronoi polygons.

Weekend Reading: Product Market Fit, Stripe's 5th Hub, and Downlink

Superhuman's methodology for measuring product-market fit, Stripe going remote, and Downlink for satellite imagery feeds.

Weekend Reading: Human Leverage, Alan Kay, and Mapping the NBA

Weekend Reading: Gene Wolfe, Zoom, and Inside Spatial Networks

A tribute to Gene Wolfe, Zoom's Eric Yuan, and a Q+A with Tony on SNI.

Weekend Reading: Running Maps, Thinking, and Remote Work

Planning runs, Vannevar Bush on the future of thinking, and best practices for remote work.

Weekend Reading: Brains and Language, Hillshading in Blender, and Antifragility

The brain storing native language, Joe's work on hillshading, and living antifragility.

Weekend Reading: T Cells, Creating Proteins, and SNI Awards

T cells for immunotherapy, engineering new proteins with Jupyter Notebooks, and Spatial Networks named as a top workplace.

Weekend Reading: Hurricanes, Long Games, and AirPods

NSF program using Fulcrum Community, playing long games instead of short ones, and how AirPods are like the iPod.

Weekend Reading: Remote Work, Autonomous Behaviors, and AirPods 2

Naval Ravikant on remote working, Studio D on side effects of autonomous vehicles, and Apple launching new AirPods.

Weekend Reading: Mental Models, Git History, and Notion

Shane Parrish's archive of mental models, visualizing git history, and page templates for Notion.

Weekend Reading: Calculator, SaaS Metrics, and System Shock

Microsoft open sources Calculator, David Skok on metrics, and System Shock cross-platform.

Weekend Reading: Build or Buy, OKRs, and Employee Onboarding

Build vs buy in IT, OKR guidebook, and tips on employee onboarding.

Weekend Reading: Private DNS, Opportunity, and Millennial Socialism

Cloudflare's private DNS system, the Mars rover Opportunity is no more, and the rise of millennial socialism.

Weekend Reading: Business Applications, Rays Prospects, and the Florida Panhandle

“Okta's business apps report, Rays upcoming prospect, and the damage from Hurricane Michael.”

Weekend Reading: LiDAR, Auto Generated Textbooks, and Paleo Plate Tectonics

LiDAR, Auto Generated Textbooks, and Paleo Plate Tectonics

Weekend Reading: Fulcrum in Santa Barbara, Point Clouds, Building Footprints

Santa Barbara SAR with Fulcrum Community, open point cloud data on AWS, and Microsofts millions of building footprints.

Weekend Reading: Shanghai, Basecamp, and DocuSaurus

Hi-res photo of Shanghai, Basecamp's product process, and Docusaurus for software project documentation.

Weekend Reading: CES 2019, Tips for Satellite Imagery, and Shortcuts Archive

“Steven Sinofsky’s CES report, a guide for working with satellite data, and the MacStories Shortcuts archive.”

Weekend Reading: RoboSat, the State of Security, and the Equal Earth Map

Extracting buildings from imagery with RoboSat, the state of security in 2019, and the equal earth map.

Weekend Reading: How We Collect Data, Mapping the Camp Fire, and Earth's Great Unconformity

How we collect data at Spatial Networks, DJI maps the Camp Fire, and on mysterious geological records.

Weekend Reading: Mastery Learning, Burundi’s Capital, and SRTM

Mastery learning, Burundi moving its capital, and tools for SRTM data.

Weekend Reading: Largest Islands, Linework, and Airline Mapping

David Garcia and Daniel Huffman's cartography projects.

Weekend Reading: Ubiquitous Computing, Versioning SQL, and Video Game Maps

An interview with Bret Victor, Eurogamer on video game maps, and tips on using git for SQL.

Weekend Reading: Railway Logos, Meditation, and the Next Feature Fallacy

Andrew Chen on the 'Next Feature Fallacy', Bill Gates on meditation, and some cool railway logo redesigns.

Weekend Reading: Exploring Zanzibar, Singapore of the Future, & Watching Basketball

“A couple of links about cities and places, and one on watching basketball.”

Weekend Reading: Typing on iPad Pro, Climate Optimism, Visualizing GeoNames

Smart Keyboard Folio, defending 'climate optiism', and exploring place name data.

Weekend Reading: Wind Turbines, Bruce Sterling, and Economic Ideas

The US Wind Turbine Database, an interview with Bruce Sterling, and EconTalk's Russ Roberts on economic history.

Weekend Reading: CAC, Alexander Hamilton, and Flow

“Intercom on CAC, Hamilton's Legacy, and Microsoft's Flow service.”

Weekend Reading: AV-Human Interaction, iPad Pro, and Buying Out Investors

“Ford's self-driving car efforts, Buffer buying out investors, and thoughts on the new iPad Pro.”

Weekend Reading: Forecasting, Raster CV, Free University Courses

Forecasting, raster analysis, and online courses.

Weekend Reading: Terminals, Cryptography, and Products as Functions

Terminals as interfaces, quantum cryptography, and products as mathematical functions.

Weekend Reading: Geocomputation, Customers, and Linear Growth

“Geocomputation with R, listening to customers, and the value of linear growth.”