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Vannevar Bush
- Science: The Endless Frontier
Vannevar Bush's seminal report to President Truman, making the case for government support for foundational scientific research (and pushing to create the NSF). Previously: Process Not Products — on Bush's work with t…
- How to Make a Memex
Been reading more about how others are using Roam the last few days. In this post, Sarah Constantin draws an apt connection to Vannevar Bush's "memex" concept from his 1945 paper "As We May Think". It was an early inf…
- Weekend Reading: Running Maps, Thinking, and Remote Work
🏃🏻♂️ On the Go Map Found via Tom MacWright, a slick and simple tool for doing run route planning built on modern web tech. It uses basic routing APIs and distance calculation to help plan out runs, which is especia…
- Process Not Products
In his new book Loonshots, author Safi Bahcall uses the concept of phase transitions to analyze how companies work. When a substance changes phase, like water going from solid to liquid, the same exact substance is fo…