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MIT's Building 20: a Masterpiece of Utility
Res Extensa #37 :: On low vs. high road design, How Buildings Learn, and crafting buildings fit for purpose
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Bits Can Move Atoms
Res Extensa #39 :: How software (and ideas themselves) move things in the physical world
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Book Notes: The Nature of Technology
Res Extensa #38 :: Summary and learnings from W. Brian Arthur's work on how technology evolves
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Monthly Reading, August 2023
Res Extensa #36 :: The "improving mentality", how learning works, making decisions, the virtue of speed, and pattern languages
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Monthly Reading, May 2023
Res Extensa #35 :: against stasis, the regulation-industrial complex, "Protopias", and the ever-rising cost of nuclear power
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Process vs. Practice
Res Extensa #34 :: Comparing methods and knowing when it's time for divergent or convergent thinking
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Learning from the Concierge MVP
Res Extensa #33 :: Doing things that don’t scale and speedrunning the idea maze
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Monthly Reading, February 2023
Res Extensa #32 :: Decision-making velocity, intervention, religion in the modern era, hyper-orality, and what makes great writing
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Thoughts on building products, organizations, and what we can learn with systems thinking. “We know the past but cannot control it. We control the future but cannot know it.“
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