Topic
logistics
- Flexport Atlas
Flexport built a slick app for visualizing global shipping and rail traffic.
- Norway's Stad Ship Tunnel
Norway is in the planning stages on a tunnel for ships to bypass having to sail around the Stad peninsula, an infamously dangerous spot with high winds, rough waters, and foul weather. It's a 2km pathway under the bas…
- Systems and Supply Chains
You can't touch current events online (at least in circles I follow) without running into 25 opinions on what's causing our supply chain lock-ups. Global supply chains are just about the most interesting examples of s…
- Weekend Reading: DeFi Yields, Cloudflare's Internet, and Standards in Logistics
📈 How Are DeFi Yields So High? This is a great primer on yield farming in DeFi from Nat Eliason. Seeing the insane 1000% APYs on some DeFi products, you have to wonder if it's a Ponzi scheme (hint: sometimes it proba…
- Second and Third-Order Effects
From Mark Levinson's The Box, on the shipping container and its impact on global trade: The true importance of the revolution in freight transportation would be found not in its effect on ship lines and dockworkers, b…
- Recent Links: Playing with Numbers, Logistics Networks, Vancouver Island
🎓 Numbers at Play: Dynamic Toys Make the Invisible Visible Great tools keep up with their users. They operate at the speed of thought, ever shrinking the feedback loop between conceiving of an idea and exploring its…