This is what time travel is. It’s looking at a person, and seeing them in the present, and the past, concurrently. And that mode of transport only worked with those one had known a significant time.
~ Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, Gabrielle Zevin
Musings


It amazes me how, even though I’ve read all 705 pages of Shoshana Zuboff’s The Age of Surveillance Capitalism and was completely convinced by it, when Twitter nudges me towards some opinion piece on Trump on some news site, I can’t consent to all the cookies quickly enough. Take all the data you want so long as you get that box of text out of my way.
This is how the world ends, isn’t it?
Someone pressing:
I agree
I agree
I agree
I agree
~Delphi, Clare Pollard


Top Dogs and Cat Poop
Issue 55 of the Manufacturing Serendipity newsletter. Is the urge to start a company caused by a brain parasite? Plus: Strange and Beautiful Google Maps Reviews; Why the Super Rich are Inevitable; Urban Tetris; a strong contender for Headline of the Year; & more…
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Yottabytes, & Ronnabytes, & Quettabytes (oh my!)
Issue 54 of the Manufacturing Serendipity newsletter. Naming outrageous numbers; a (possibly universal) bias in human imagination; Diana Yevtukh’s embroidery; & more…
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Two years of Manufacturing Serendipity – Part II
Issue 53 of the Manufacturing Serendipity newsletter. Part II of my review of the year.
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Two years of Manufacturing Serendipity – Part I
Issue 52 of the Manufacturing Serendipity newsletter. Part I of my review of the year.
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The Treachery of Images
Issue 51 of the Manufacturing Serendipity newsletter. Art; TikTok’s algorithm; Jennifer’s Body; Ten Rules; a love letter to Costco; Wikipedia’s list of common misconceptions; & more…
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