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A confident nation builds so that future people may look back and marvel at their ingenuity and vision (Alex Tabarrok)
“Construction is a sign of life” (Kevin Kelly)
Amazon begins drone deliveries. Prime Air was announced on Dec 1, 2013. Amazon is persistent and invests on long time horizons. (h/t @elidourado)
Why do Italian transit projects cost 57% less than global averages? (see also my brief highlights thread)
Is it true that 19th-century wheelwrights were extremely highly paid?
Is there a good general book about the copper industry? (asks @ByrneHobart)
Sears once invested in R&D to make better paper for catalogues
When to calculate statistics was to blaspheme against God
Why steel is awesome
Weather forecasting couldn’t start until the invention of the telegraph (@oweissb)
Newton’s new idea
That which is created must be used to become complete (Montessori)
We need a new World’s Fair (@maxolson)
Faulty assumptions people make about the behavior of organizations
“Your approach to X reflects your biases”
The limits to growth are not the cause of inflation (@daniel_eth)
Uber, but in 1654 (@antonhowes)
5,000 planets have been identified outside the Solar System (@redouad)
Fertility has a U-shaped relationship to income (@mattyglesias)
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Jason’s links and tweets, 2022-06-20
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Links
A confident nation builds so that future people may look back and marvel at their ingenuity and vision (Alex Tabarrok)
“Construction is a sign of life” (Kevin Kelly)
Amazon begins drone deliveries. Prime Air was announced on Dec 1, 2013. Amazon is persistent and invests on long time horizons. (h/t @elidourado)
Why do Italian transit projects cost 57% less than global averages? (see also my brief highlights thread)
Queries
Is it true that 19th-century wheelwrights were extremely highly paid?
Is there a good general book about the copper industry? (asks @ByrneHobart)
Quotes
Sears once invested in R&D to make better paper for catalogues
When to calculate statistics was to blaspheme against God
Why steel is awesome
Weather forecasting couldn’t start until the invention of the telegraph (@oweissb)
Newton’s new idea
That which is created must be used to become complete (Montessori)
Threads
We need a new World’s Fair (@maxolson)
Other tweets & retweets
Faulty assumptions people make about the behavior of organizations
“Your approach to X reflects your biases”
The limits to growth are not the cause of inflation (@daniel_eth)
Uber, but in 1654 (@antonhowes)
Charts
5,000 planets have been identified outside the Solar System (@redouad)
Fertility has a U-shaped relationship to income (@mattyglesias)