“A cellphone is a little like a watch.
If you need it, someone else has got it.”
Christopher Walken, Guardian Interview
Musings
A Year of Manufacturing Serendipity – Part Two
Issue 27 of Manufacturing Serendipity, part two of this retrospective thinger.
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A Year of Manufacturing Serendipity – Part One
Issue 26 of Manufacturing Serendipity. What have I learned from a years’ worth of loosely connected stuff? What were my best bits? Too much to squeeze into one newsletter friends, here’s part one.
Read more "A Year of Manufacturing Serendipity – Part One"…the world is an experiment in inventing validity, and conviction is its only proof.
~Bewilderment by Richard Powers
Great Green Dragons and the Big Bad Wolf
Issue 25 of the Manufacturing Serendipity newsletter. Weird language rules we follow, but aren’t aware of; the label releasing rain tracks on Spotify and out-earning Lady Gaga; how Netflix optimise thumbnails; and more.
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The pink bits
Because I can’t stick a completed puzzle on the fridge, I’m sticking it here instead.
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Fine Young Cannibals
Issue 24 of the Manufacturing Serendipity newsletter. Some things I’ve learned about sharks, William Gibson’s apocalyptic retweets, human etch-a-sketch Strava art, and thoughts on the BBC drama Vigil.
Read more "Fine Young Cannibals"“Knowing the outcome infects us. We’re rational beings that think things are supposed to make sense.It’s very hard for us to wrap our heads around a bad outcome when we didn’t do anything wrong.
Or that there’s a good outcome that’s just random.
We’re really uncomfortable with randomness in that way. It’s just the way we’re built: to recognize patterns.”
Annie Duke on resulting fallacy
The parasitic wasps have escaped the island…
Issue 23 of the Manufacturing Serendipity newsletter. Thoughts on Resulting Fallacy, Cursed Crypto Cruiseliners, Conspicuous Leisure, Mary Ruefle’s Erasures, Schadenfreude and more.
Read more "The parasitic wasps have escaped the island…"“Most letters from a parent contain a parent’s own lost dreams disguised as good advice.”
Kurt Vonnegut, in a letter to his daughter, Nanette, 20th September 1972