From Wikipedia [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brandolini%27s_law], so relevant for our times: > Brandolini's law, also known as the bullshit asymmetry principle, is an internet adage which emphasizes the difficulty of debunking bullshit: "The amount of energy needed

This is ridiculous and amazing. Someone has created a game [https://titlerun.xyz/]you can play on the title bar of your web browser.

Julian Jaynes' The Origin Of Consciousness In The Breakdown Of The Bicameral Mind has been sitting on my bookshelf, partially read, for a long while. Jaynes' theory of how humanity developed consciousness is bold, fascinating, and almost certainly wrong. But it'

Excellent article [http://www.fotocommunity.com/info/Helsinki_Bus_Station_Theory]on how artists find their own path and create unique work. Written for aspiring photographers but is applicable to any creative field. > It’s the separation that makes all the difference, and

Since the lockdown I've felt like time has accelerated. Days pass by without notice; a weekend arrives and disappears; I still find it hard to believe that we're already half-way through 2020. This sort of time distortion seems to be

There are obvious reasons why getting rid of toxic waste by shooting it into the Sun is impractical (rockets are expensive). But there is a surprising [https://www.forbes.com/sites/startswithabang/2019/09/20/this-is-why-we-dont-shoot-earths-garbage-into-the-sun/] reason too: it's quite difficult to

Someone collected hundreds of pitch decks and made them available online [https://starthouse.xyz/]. The collection includes some of the most successful startups in the last decade: Facebook [https://starthouse.xyz/facebook], AirBnb [https://starthouse.xyz/airbnb], and Uber [https://starthouse.xyz/uber].

> He radically restructured operations, splitting the company into thirty, and later forty, different units that were to compete against each other. Instead of cooperating, as in a normal firm, divisions such as apparel, tools, appliances, human resources, IT and branding were now in

A simple but accessible introduction [https://feltrac.co/control/2020/01/12/simple-control-systems.html]to the most common type of control system, the PID controller.

The bizarre [https://themargins.substack.com/p/doordash-and-pizza-arbitrage]VC funded food delivery industry: > A pizza that he charged $24 for was listed as $16 by Doordash. > If someone could pay Doordash $16 a pizza, and Doordash would pay his restaurant $24 a

Computing has already transformed education in many ways. Most schools around the world had to close due to the pandemic, but they've been using Google Classroom or Zoom to teach virtually. Years ago YouTube kicked off a revolution [https://medium.com/@samo.

Over a decade ago I remember playing Unreal Tournament 3 and being pretty impressed by its graphics. At the time it was one of the nicer games that my modest PC was capable of running. Here's what it looked like: Things have

A look [https://retool.com/blog/erp-for-engineers/]into the bizarre world of Enterprise Resource Planning, and the biggest player in the field, German software company SAP.

A book [https://abookofcreatures.com/](or rather blog), detailing mystical creatures from around the world.

The University of Queensland started a competition where PhDs would summarize their research in three minutes or less. They have an archive [https://threeminutethesis.uq.edu.au/watch-3mt]of past presentations which make for an interesting watch. I liked this [https://www.youtube.com/

Just like in William Golding's novel The Lord of the Flies, a group of boys were stranded [https://www.theguardian.com/books/2020/may/09/the-real-lord-of-the-flies-what-happened-when-six-boys-were-shipwrecked-for-15-months] on a deserted island in the 1960's. Over a year later they were found