Links and tweets, 2022-06-08
by Jason Crawford · June 8, 2022 · 2 min read
Best of my Twitter, May 31–June 6 (a couple days behind, still ironing out the process… For the latest, follow me on Twitter: @jasoncrawford.)
After last time someone suggested embedding the tweets instead of linking to them, but I don’t like it as much: it’s not as compact, there’s too much cruft, and there’s less opportunity for me to summarize the essence of each tweet/link/thread (not to mention that it’s harder/impossible to cross-post to other forums). I’m sticking with links for now, but let me know if you’d rather scroll through a list of embeds (like this).
Links
- A Reddit thread appreciating the engineering of everyday items
- Jim Pethokoukis’s “Up Wing” agenda
- Arcadia Science is experimenting with a new way of publishing scientific work
- Michael Nielsen on vision papers
- Ryan Petersen of Flexport talks to Tamara Winter about supply chains
- Californians Against Pandemics is running a ballot initiative to invest in pandemic preparedness (h/t @NathanpmYoung)
- High housing prices are driving low-skilled workers from high-productivity to low-productivity areas (Alex Tabarrok)
- The B612 Foundation discovered more than 100 asteroids by analyzing years-old images (NYT)
- “Subsidiarity is a principle of social organization that holds that social and political issues should be dealt with at the most immediate (or local) level that is consistent with their resolution.” (h/t Stewart Brand)
Tweets
- The original NYC subway was completed faster than the average environmental impact statement
- How many of WIRED’s “boom spoiler” scenarios from 1997 came true? (thread)
- Some reasons I am skeptical of “harmony with nature” (thread)
- But for the US Army Corps of Engineers, the Mississippi would no longer flow through New Orleans
- Why we can’t have electric planes (yet)
- One standard deviation in rule of law is associated with a 6.4-fold difference in per capita income
- McCloskey on “the idea that ideas about ideas are unscientific”
- 19th-century medicine would unabashedly rely on anecdotal evidence
- Vannevar Bush on the proper lab atmosphere
- Who are the real revolutionaries?
- In 1901 the market cap of the largest company was greater than the US national debt
- Bacon on how to do a proper case-control study
- Pixar founder Ed Catmull on how to see randomness as part of the beauty of life
Retweets
- Suraj Patel has an abundance agenda (@SurajPatel)
- “It seemed to be more a criticism of everything bad phrased as a prediction of doom” (@anderssandberg)
- Productivity is the path to equity (@DKThomp)
- To learn from mistakes, you have to build at the right pace (@stewartbrand)
