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Peter Thiel’s view on progress and stagnation in his own words, sourced from a number of his interviews and articles. This document consists only of direct quotes from Thiel, lightly edited for clarity (except for headings and where marked otherwise). Key…

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The mysterious masterpiece of Portugal’s great modernist.

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A little while ago a friend of mine by the name of John Munroe sent me this great little Olivetti 32 ‘Katakana’ typewriter. I’d been keeping an eye out for such a machine for a nu…

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It sometimes seems hard to believe that we humans have managed to explore so little of what we have so much of: the seas. Oceans cover something like 70 percent of the world’s surface, but we…

The M4 Enigma prevented Allied codebreakers from deciphering German naval messages for almost a year.

Scientific Reports - Non-cuttable material created through local resonance and strain rate effects

Why ‘Strong Opinions, Weakly Held’ isn't as great a thinking tool as you might think.

Computers can be understood • Choose Boring Technology • The Wrong Abstraction • Falsehoods Programmers Believe About Names • The Hiring Post • The Product-Minded Engineer • Write code that is easy to delete, not easy to extend • The Law of Leaky Abstractions…

What makes Stripe a favorite of developers, the advantages of building a cult, and the how the little things add for developers

Engineers have taken their inspiration from shells and grapefruits to create what they say is the first manufactured non-cuttable material. This new material, which could be used in the security and health and safety industries, can turn back the force of…

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