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A collection of 5 issues

Community in Silicon Valley

I've been thinking about an essay by Chris Arnade called How to build the perfect city for the last few weeks. To sum it up in my own words: Everybody, everywhere wants the sense of belonging that comes from community. Where is community in Silicon Valley? I have

The Prehistory of Startups

It seems like the common thread that binds together these different cultures is a commitment to finding win-wins through the use of science and technology to build new products and services that give people a new way to communicate.

Chaotic Progress

How vigorous competition among public political parties and private for-profit companies has promoted progress by balancing the personal interests of new entrants and incumbent elites

The Years of Lyndon Johnson

Sometimes you hear people say about a person, they’re “doing God’s work” — an important task ... so complex, that only God himself could hope to ever see it accomplished, a task that anybody else would find too daunting to even dare an attempt. Robert Caro is doing God’s work here.

The Origin of Asymmetry

What brings order to the structure of the universe?