Links and tweets, 2022-06-20
by Jason Crawford · June 21, 2022 · 1 min read
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
- Fertility has a U-shaped relationship to income (@mattyglesias)
Comment: Progress Forum, LessWrong, Reddit
