Link post
Trying a new experiment: a blog-post digest of my most relevant Twitter content. Let me know any feedback!
Our World in Data is looking for a Head of Product & Design
Dan Elton is hosting a “Boston area progress studies roundtable discussion”
“The FDA has a long, long history of just hating people testing themselves.”
Matthew Dockrey reads the Philosophical Transactions and makes a video for each
Misha Chellam on “broad YIMBYism.” And: “Small-d democratic-citizen participation has led to profoundly regressive outcomes.” (via @hanlonbt)
A thread on the history of wheels and steering (I will probably blog this soon)
We could use more blog posts summarizing and explaining academic papers
Why we can’t have solar-powered cargo ships
There is a pessimist argument that basically goes: “Yes, in the past, we invented many things. But, we cannot invent those things again.”
Bacon on defeatism vs. progress
Before the car was a “horseless carriage,” the telephone was a “speaking telegraph”
Telegraph-based stock tickers were the “infinite scroll” of the 19th century
Norman Borlaug’s gift to the world
The proper attitude for university students according to Jacob Bronowski
Vannevar Bush: “any well-conducted laboratory” has an atmosphere that “almost wholly banishes posing, jockeying for position, and evasiveness”
Our health organizations are not set up to deal with pandemics
Examples of graphs like this for other technologies? (@eric_is_weird)
If we don’t get a New Roaring ’20s, what went wrong? (@JimPethokoukis)
Adversarial legalism is why we can’t build things anymore in the US (@AlecStapp)
“To don a pair of eyeglasses was to cheat old age” (@krisgulati)
James Watt and Adam Smith met in Glasgow as young men (@dkedrosky)
The world is a museum of passion projects (@collision)
Let’s stop saying “there is no evidence for X” and instead say “we are still gathering evidence to know whether X is true”. (@Ayjchan) (@zeynep agrees)
One of the motivations for Nature was speed of communication. Another was establishing early credit. Today, that sounds like preprints (@NeuroStats)
Von Neumann had an interesting style of dealing with people (@curiouswavefn)
Progress links and tweets, 2022-05-30
Link post
Trying a new experiment: a blog-post digest of my most relevant Twitter content. Let me know any feedback!
Links
Our World in Data is looking for a Head of Product & Design
Dan Elton is hosting a “Boston area progress studies roundtable discussion”
“The FDA has a long, long history of just hating people testing themselves.”
Matthew Dockrey reads the Philosophical Transactions and makes a video for each
Misha Chellam on “broad YIMBYism.” And: “Small-d democratic-citizen participation has led to profoundly regressive outcomes.” (via @hanlonbt)
Tweets
A thread on the history of wheels and steering (I will probably blog this soon)
We could use more blog posts summarizing and explaining academic papers
Why we can’t have solar-powered cargo ships
There is a pessimist argument that basically goes: “Yes, in the past, we invented many things. But, we cannot invent those things again.”
Bacon on defeatism vs. progress
Before the car was a “horseless carriage,” the telephone was a “speaking telegraph”
Telegraph-based stock tickers were the “infinite scroll” of the 19th century
Norman Borlaug’s gift to the world
The proper attitude for university students according to Jacob Bronowski
Vannevar Bush: “any well-conducted laboratory” has an atmosphere that “almost wholly banishes posing, jockeying for position, and evasiveness”
Our health organizations are not set up to deal with pandemics
Retweets
Examples of graphs like this for other technologies? (@eric_is_weird)
If we don’t get a New Roaring ’20s, what went wrong? (@JimPethokoukis)
Adversarial legalism is why we can’t build things anymore in the US (@AlecStapp)
“To don a pair of eyeglasses was to cheat old age” (@krisgulati)
James Watt and Adam Smith met in Glasgow as young men (@dkedrosky)
The world is a museum of passion projects (@collision)
Let’s stop saying “there is no evidence for X” and instead say “we are still gathering evidence to know whether X is true”. (@Ayjchan) (@zeynep agrees)
One of the motivations for Nature was speed of communication. Another was establishing early credit. Today, that sounds like preprints (@NeuroStats)
Von Neumann had an interesting style of dealing with people (@curiouswavefn)