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- Amor Towles
Amor Towles is one of the most articulate and interesting writers working. I loved this conversation from EconTalk. The discussion on constraints and the meaning hidden in “inconveniences” was great.
- Eliot Peper on Foundry
I love what Eliot Peper does with Substack as a sort of behind-the-scenes look at his writing process. I wish more authors and content creators spent the time to show their workflow. It's incredibly insightful to see…
- Interview with Richard Rhodes, on the Making of the Atomic Bomb
This is a phenomenal interview with Richard Rhodes, author of the legendary The Making of the Atomic Bomb, an expansive history of the Manhattan Project and the development of nuclear weapons technology. Dwarkesh Shah…
- David McCullough Dies at 89
Historian David McCullough died last week at age 89. If you've never read his work, it's some of the best, most readable and engaging history you can find. I've read a few of his books over the years, like The Great B…
- On Legibility
I think I probably read three different pieces this week alone that reference James Scott's Seeing Like a State. It presents an argument about the desire for "legibility" that overthrows and reorders bottom-up, emerge…
- Weekend Reading: Ted Chiang, Renewable Energy, and ColorBox
✍🏼 Ted Chiang Uses Science to Illuminate the Human Condition I enjoyed this interview with author Ted Chiang. It covers his recent short story collection Exhalation: Stories with nice context and background on the id…
- The Wonderful Power of Storytelling
Bruce Sterling on storytelling and the art of computer game design, from GDC 1991: I don't think you can last by meeting the contemporary public taste, the taste from the last quarterly report. I don't think you can l…