Pathing.
- Vogue, on Instagram as art dealer of the future .
- FiveThirtyEight: "The Slow Death of American Entrepreneurship."
- Paul Graham: "What Business Can Learn from Open Source." Old, and excellent.
- Timoni West on Peter Drucker on Values and the unintended consequences of in-person professional socialization.
Manufacturing.
- How grahene may help efficient electronics cooling.
- A Japanese company is developing "Dual Carbon" batteries, an alternative to Li-ion.
- A bunch of crazy uses for graphene, including as a sensor for opioids.
- Photochromic liquids.
Logistics.
- Airbus's "E-Fan" Electric Plane.
- Good overview of D-Wave's quantum computers.
- A pizzeria in New Dehli delivers a pizza by drone.
- California is giving robots driving licenses this fall.
- A utility company in Austin is paying customers - and Google - if they allow Nest to turn their AC down during peak times.
Reflecting.
- A very good history of the meaning of "analog."
- A brief history of plastics, natural and synthetic.
- Gluten Intolerance May Not Exist.
- How the Neighborhoods of Manhattan Got Their Names.
- A history of ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
- A great video on the Fire Lab in Missoula, Montana.
Stuff that doesn't fit into my dumb/arbitrary categories.
- The New York Times on a study that pushed radical weight loss in short amounts of time.
- Google Maps moves the shadow on the Washington Monument throughout the day.
- Amazing military infographics.
- Why airplane food tastes so bad.
And.
Fordite: Rocks, made of layers of automotive paint.
Love, Spencer.
ps - Thank you to everyone - especially my friends at Gin Lane, Undercurrent, and on twitter - who referred me to everything here.
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