Espresso Shots 11-8-26
From Jeep ducking and vibe game development to reverse game theory, the shapes of stories, and thirty thousand books, make the internet feel small with joy and wonder.
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Espresso Shots 11-1-26
From remembering Patrick Stewart to the Space Shuttle Discovery, the Universe’s First 2 Billion Years, the Baloney Detection Kit, friction and progress, and why the Kitchen is the Cool Spot.
Espresso Shots 10-25-26
From Apple Music’s hidden iPod and LEGO’s perfect plaything to HyperCard, vibe-coded music gear, portal gun development, and the real Kevin Bacon.
Espresso Shots 10-18-26
From forgetting the algorithms to Jim Henson’s puppets, a dramatic Ironman win, a view on friendships, thinking like a lab team, and choosing what you attend to.
Espresso Shots 10-11-26
From Claude writing code and authoring apps to pirating the pirates, retro gaming, beauty in DVD menus, and the Tildeverse.
Espresso Shots 10-4-26
From the geology of sticking with it to Game Theory secrets, mathematicians, David Bowie's Proust Questionnaire, and an analemma over the Callanish Stones.
Espresso Shots 9-27-26
From needles in haystacks to a six-dollar chicken, a rainy arcade, a perfect circle, and the invisible force with a mysterious effect on aging.
Espresso Shots 9-20-26
From having ideas to running a marathon: Seneca on friendship, the aesthetic-usability effect, abstractions, magazines, and how the Oregon Trail became a generational icon.
Espresso Shots 9-13-26
From inverted asteroids and revived BBSs to MouthPad independence, archaic intelligence, exiting the cave, Steve Jobs's lost decade, and one true purpose.