Topic / engineering
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Highrises
July 10, 2024 • #Documenting the art deco architecture of America.
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Norway's Stad Ship Tunnel
October 17, 2022 • #Building the world's first tunnel for full-size ships.
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Megastructures
August 23, 2022 • #An artbook of science fictional megaprojects.
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Framing and Shape Up
May 6, 2022 • #Using 'framing' to define problems and convey why they're worth solving.
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Weekend Reading: Robotic Bricklaying, Medici and Thiel, and Airtable, Roblox of the Enterprise
August 13, 2021 • #Why we don't have robotic masons, on Medici, Thiel, and modern patronage, and Airtable as the enterprise metaverse.
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Weekend Reading: LightSpeed, Kubernetes, and a Car-Free Market Street
March 14, 2020 • #Facebook rebuilds Messenger, Kubernetes is mostly overcomplicated, and how Market Street has fared with no cars.
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Weekend Reading: Software Dependencies, Conversational AI, and the iPad at 10
February 8, 2020 • #Software dependency drift, Google's latest conversational AI, and the iPad at age 10.
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Microgravity Will Change How We Make Everything
December 4, 2019 • #Using space and microgravity as a new center of manufacturing.
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The Tunnel of Samos
August 7, 2019 • #Analyzing how the ancient Greeks constructed a kilometer-long water tunnel on the island of Samos.
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