Weekend Reading: Readwise's Next Chapter, Reviewing Revolt of the Public, and the Helicopter State
September 17, 2021 • #Readwise launches a reading app, Scott Alexander reviews Martin Gurri, and Jonah Goldberg on the helicopter state.
Readwise launches a reading app, Scott Alexander reviews Martin Gurri, and Jonah Goldberg on the helicopter state.
Why we don't have robotic masons, on Medici, Thiel, and modern patronage, and Airtable as the enterprise metaverse.
How are DeFi yields so high?, Cloudflare's next-gen internet, and the challenges of making 'APIs' for global trade.
DeFi + financial institutions, the importance of antifragility in worldbuilding, and things being harder than they seem.
Byrne Hobart on the positive side of bubbles, PG on kids and hobbies, and Vitalik Buterin's analysis of how systems develop legitimacy.
An interview with @austen, @lennysan on content, Earth from oblique, books of @wethefifth, and Microsoft's Power Fx.
Defending liberal science, keyboarding in Roam with Roam42, and how to write effective Jobs to Be Done examples.
When to hire your first Chief Notion Officer, product roadmaps as tech trees, and maps of alternate histories.
The rise of non-experts, innovation and linearity, and our history as builders.
Roots of Progress on The Rise and Fall of American Growth, a guide to JTBD interviews, and nullifying the Fermi paradox.
Life in the NBA bubble, homesteading on Twitter, and what separates professionals and amateurs.
Elad Gil on collaboration in enterprise, Eugene Wei on TikTok, and Venkat Rao on a new management paradigm.
Stripe's guide to SaaS, a few rules from Morgan Housel, and the advantages of starting a company in a crisis.
Airtable's latest funding, scarcity as a service, and the glory of open source.
Options over roadmaps, Anduril's Ghost, and Roam spaced repetition.
A notes meta-layer, an interview with Paul Graham, and the Donald Trump era.
The birth of the joint-stock corporation, Palantir's S-1, and crafting APIs.
A clean start for the web, unbundling education, and a retro-future concept car.
Raising less money, the many uses for a screwdriver, and the importance of relentless incremental progress.
Commercial satellite imagery business models, proof mechanisms in social media, and ancient cinematic universes.
Matuschak and Nielsen on spaced repetition, Byrne Hobart's 'sumo startups', and Canva's backlink empire.
Substack and disintermediating media, choosing boring tech, and building DIY LED lights.
Gurri on private vs. public emotions, McCloskey on the boom of modern progress, and Facebook's work on OpenStreetMap data.
A few recent talks I've bookmarked on YouTube.
Amazon Honeycode, satellite imagery for trimming trees, and BigQuery sheets.
Remembering Children of Men, Timoney on Google Earth, and the NYT and Slate Star Codex.
The public vs. the state, DataRobot's Location AI, and the Mapillary team joins Facebook.
Commandos, infantry, or police for markets, why sleep deprivation kills, and how Marc Andreessen works.
Adam Elkus on the current state of culture, Devon Zuegel on using calendars, and Robin Hanson on skepticism.
Gurri on post-truth, Hayek's Pretence of Knowledge, and GTA V graphics.
The trouble with optionality, modern day Pangaea, and when regulation goes wrong.
American industrial production, why we bikeshed, and an app for glyphs.
Beastie Boys Story, Linkrot for checking for valid URLs, and a guide to making screencasts.
How should the state respond to the coronacrisis?, mapping the future of work, and Stephen Wolfram's deep dive on his productivity systems.
Oncology in the age of coronavirus, Waymo augmenting data, and Bret Victor on the Future of Programming.
Sync Readwise to Roam, naval intel in World War I, and interaction density between desktop and mobile.
The value of cloud services, what cities might look like after the virus, and COVID resources mapping.
Facebook rebuilds Messenger, Kubernetes is mostly overcomplicated, and how Market Street has fared with no cars.
Tagging data with Turf, Curiosity high-res photo, and different kinds of easy.
Figma's attention to typographic detail, restoring a Xerox Alto, and mapping the spread of CoVID-19.
Landgrid parcel data, Julian Lehr's quantified self, and Tesla's advantage.
Simulating space physics, mapping mathematics, and centuries-old companies of Japan.
Software dependency drift, Google's latest conversational AI, and the iPad at age 10.
Tracking missed investments, Downlink for satellite imagery, and nucoll Twitter network analysis tool.
George Packer on writing, wealth, and Superhuman as a nexus for productivity services.
Venkatesh Rao's theory of internet beef, the impacts of company culture, and Turchin's Secular Cycles.
Iran's 'shadow commander', economic simulations in space, and Roam for interlinked note taking.
Bullet physics in games, notes from The Lessons of History, and BrickLink's Lego database.
Ubiquity of tradeoffs, outsiders vs. insiders, and FAQs as a tool for goal setting.
Neutrino research leads to discoveries in linear algebra, Waymo makes progress, and Christoph Janz's rules for freemium.
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.
Mapping MiLB, renaming transit stations, and how soccer players play.
How Figma built their multiplayer tech, rice vs. wheat and influence on culture, and how tuft cells communicate threats to the immune system.
Spicy foods and evolution, Humboldt's maps, and picking apart income taxes.
A new blogging tool, the complexity of hand-drawn visualizations, and detecting wildfires from satellites.
Stephen Strasburg tipping pitches, mapping with AI, and ByteDance under CFIUS investigation.
DeepMind restores ancient inscriptions, StarLink expansion, and the origins of Chinese government
Comparing baseball broadcast graphics, a review of The Mind Illuminated, and thinking about the most likely sites for the Industrial Revolution.
Kipchoge breaks 2 hours, designing future ballparks, and causes of death in the news.
Brain filters, hill climbing strategy, and what executives do.
Virtue signaling, busyness as a proxy for productivity, and Bret Victor's analysis of information design.
An interview with Ted Chiang, renewables outlook around the world, and a tool for color generation.
Hayek on society's use of knowledge, a fuzzy finder for the command line, and beautiful footage of Iceland's geography.
This week highlighting a few Observable notebooks on cryptography, bicycle chainring calculators, and generative maps.
Scoping in product development, intellectual humility in discourse, and Google's team on Gboard predictive typing.
tracejson for GPS data, reimagining Euclid, and how Dropbox designs at scale.
Real-time terrain mesh with MARTINI, designing Notion using Figma, and @patrickc's bookshelf.
nvULTRA notes editor, creating a science of progress, and George Hotz on Comma.ai.
Universal laws of the world, Tandem for live collaboration in Slack, and the forward march of vision for computers.
A 7 tesla brain MRI, Anki for flashcard learning, and Andrew DeGraff's Cinemaps.
Rhythmic breathing for impact reduction in running, drowned lands in Upstate New York, and SSO in Fulcrum
National Geographic's Atlas of Moons, Opendoor and Redfin partnership, and walking to spur creativity.
“Visualizing the summer solstice, Zoom performance at IPO, and the progress of TeachOSM.”
Visualizing Earth's satellites, the value of an antilibrary, and Facebook's Libra.
“The Discourses of Epictetus, Atlassian opens its term sheet, and why customer-first companies always win.”
Who might be the next mapping company, Apple's response to pro demands, and working workflow on iPadOS.
Real-time analytics, georeferencing with QGIS, and the Fulcrum Code Editor.
Empty promises with data moats, the Chinese-US trade standoff, and all-remote company experiences.
The Rays are on a tear through 2 months, Apple's Services business, and using Observable for mapping Voronoi polygons.
Superhuman's methodology for measuring product-market fit, Stripe going remote, and Downlink for satellite imagery feeds.
A tribute to Gene Wolfe, Zoom's Eric Yuan, and a Q+A with Tony on SNI.
Planning runs, Vannevar Bush on the future of thinking, and best practices for remote work.
The brain storing native language, Joe's work on hillshading, and living antifragility.
T cells for immunotherapy, engineering new proteins with Jupyter Notebooks, and Spatial Networks named as a top workplace.
NSF program using Fulcrum Community, playing long games instead of short ones, and how AirPods are like the iPod.
Naval Ravikant on remote working, Studio D on side effects of autonomous vehicles, and Apple launching new AirPods.
Shane Parrish's archive of mental models, visualizing git history, and page templates for Notion.
Microsoft open sources Calculator, David Skok on metrics, and System Shock cross-platform.
Build vs buy in IT, OKR guidebook, and tips on employee onboarding.
Cloudflare's private DNS system, the Mars rover Opportunity is no more, and the rise of millennial socialism.
“Okta's business apps report, Rays upcoming prospect, and the damage from Hurricane Michael.”
LiDAR, Auto Generated Textbooks, and Paleo Plate Tectonics
Santa Barbara SAR with Fulcrum Community, open point cloud data on AWS, and Microsofts millions of building footprints.
Hi-res photo of Shanghai, Basecamp's product process, and Docusaurus for software project documentation.
“Steven Sinofsky’s CES report, a guide for working with satellite data, and the MacStories Shortcuts archive.”
Extracting buildings from imagery with RoboSat, the state of security in 2019, and the equal earth map.
How we collect data at Spatial Networks, DJI maps the Camp Fire, and on mysterious geological records.
Mastery learning, Burundi moving its capital, and tools for SRTM data.
David Garcia and Daniel Huffman's cartography projects.
An interview with Bret Victor, Eurogamer on video game maps, and tips on using git for SQL.
Andrew Chen on the 'Next Feature Fallacy', Bill Gates on meditation, and some cool railway logo redesigns.
“A couple of links about cities and places, and one on watching basketball.”
Smart Keyboard Folio, defending 'climate optiism', and exploring place name data.
The US Wind Turbine Database, an interview with Bruce Sterling, and EconTalk's Russ Roberts on economic history.
“Intercom on CAC, Hamilton's Legacy, and Microsoft's Flow service.”
“Ford's self-driving car efforts, Buffer buying out investors, and thoughts on the new iPad Pro.”
Forecasting, raster analysis, and online courses.
Terminals as interfaces, quantum cryptography, and products as mathematical functions.
“Geocomputation with R, listening to customers, and the value of linear growth.”