Notes, 2024-01-29.
Spencer Wright on adoquines, the Nacirema, and public benefit corporations.
On Documentation
Here’s a partial list of surprising things about human technology: * Throughout history, when someone has learned something that they really wanted to pass on
Tallow to Margarine
TW Lim on how we went from mining nature for particular fats, to mining fats for their components.
Bare Beauty, Beyond Euclid
Jordan Ellenberg calls geometry “the cilantro of math,” which is to say that few people feel neutral about it. His own feelings about the subject
Strangers on boats.
When my grandmother immigrated to Canada from Scotland, she brought a trunk full of her grandmother’s photo albums, which span the late Victorian era
Notes, 2024-01-01
Spencer Wright on the most popular writing SOW published in 2023.