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Essay No. 90
What makes a great camera?
Newsletter No. 17
Should you do your own research?
Bookshelf No. 20
How to take smart notes by Sönke Arhens
Essay No. 89
The table ranking system in football is flawed
Newsletter No. 16
The arctic permafrost has been mapped
Essay No. 88
How to build a zettelkasten system
Essay No. 87
Galileo’s letter to Duchess Christina
Newsletter No. 15
How can we solve the popular science conundrum?
Essay No. 86
Good and bad things on the internet
Essay No. 85
Daylight saving time explained
Essay No. 84
Review: Trek Dual Sport 2 hybrid bike
Essay No. 83
How I organise and manage my e-mails
Essay No. 82
To complain is human
Bookshelf No. 19
Mythos by Stephen Fry
Newsletter No. 14
Stop calling it ‘Barbenheimer’
Essay No. 81
Barbie’s world should not be dreamland
Newsletter No. 13
How time could shift the world’s economic balance
Newsletter No. 12
Threads, Bluesky and the great race to monopolise ActivityPub
Essay No. 80
The perfect social network will not build itself
Essay No. 79
Against the NOTA vote
Essay No. 78
Why Silicon Valley Bank failed
Essay No. 77
Superhero fatigue or poor screenwriting?
Essay No. 76
On legality and morality
Essay No. 75
Choosing a body typeface
Essay No. 74
The White Lotus: Season 2
Essay No. 73
The White Lotus
Newsletter No. 11
Artificial Intelligence has finally learnt enough to end society as we know it
Essay No. 72
Where did our dreams go?
Newsletter No. 10
Countries have stepped into 2023 carrying their COVID-19 baggage with them
Newsletter No. 9
Why is tech starting to look right-wing?
Newsletter No. 8
Dispatch from Rhûn is now Confluence
Essay No. 71
The Twitter files: lessons in wading through nonsense
Essay No. 70
Mastodon: the future of the internet
Essay No. 69
Traffic in Mumbai
Bookshelf No. 18
Talking to strangers by Malcolm Gladwell