When A Business Outgrows Its Customers.
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Scope of Work
Excellent writing about the physical world.
Moving House.
A moment of personal intersection with global shipping infrastructures.…
Notes on Silica Gel.
Not safe to eat per se, but generally considered non-toxic…
How Silica Gel Took Over the World
Silica gel packets seem like the only thing keeping our packaged food crispy and our belongings free of mildew. How on earth did they all get here?…
Alexis, Oakland, and the Port
In ways that are almost spooky, Oakland ends up concentrating so many of the problems of the Bay Area…
Reliability Compounds
The magical fact isn’t that we have jet planes. It’s that modern airliners are reliable to the tune of one accident per 1.13 million flights.…
TW Lim
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Notes, 2025-03-03
If you want to make a strong slingshot out of wood, you need to find a good forked branch to start with.…
Notes, 2025-02-16
Let's start at an airport, and see where we go.…
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