link.dump.12.6.2025
RFK, cheese wrappers, normal distribution, and poor little rich people
Deep look into RFK. Worth reading. I don’t even think he’s entirely wrong about many of his concerns but overall I am unconvinced he’s not doing vastly more damage than good.
Pragmatism and purism and how they churn to change the world. A good read, and worth using to frame the RFK piece above.
Babybel switching to paper wrappers. This is kinda a neat story.
Three steps for solving problems in tech. And I crack up every single time I read the “are you sure you want to notify everyone in the channel?”
Interesting article on the stretching of words like “woke.” I think it could have spent more thought on how these things become tribally coded but…a good read.
An a16z reading list “literally” lies about how Neal Stephenson ends his books. It’s a solid list of SciFi books but I found Stephenson’s conjecture pretty compelling. So good list to click through, funny response from the author as well.
John Scalzi’s take on poor little rich people. The marginal difference between folks in the same quintile was interesting.
Americans are holding onto devices longer than ever and it’s costing the economy. How fucking dystopian to think this article title is okay. If your definition of “the economy” requires everyone to replace shit that isn’t broken constantly…your definition is shit.
Veritasium video on the differences between normal distribution and long tail distributions. Hot on the heels of my review of The Black Swan someone pointed me to this. Amazing production value, well worth 45 minutes.