TW Lim

TW Lim studied sociology and design and has worked in restaurants, big data, and 3D printing. Originally from Singapore, he writes about the business and culture of food.

The Shore.

Software doesn’t run on top of hardware – it saturates it.

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.

Wine, Technology.

Using a mechanical harvester requires a winemaker to accept imperfect control over the time and manner of the crush, which then demands other tradeoffs in the winemaking process.

Selling Sunshine

William Lever was merely a megalomaniac and a marketer, but when he died, obituaries compared him both to Napoleon and to Henry Ford.

Thirst made visible.

An education in just how varied water can be.

On Guayule

A less expedient — yet promising — source of natural latex.