May 2026
Editors note: this month marks an interregnum between two QD jobs, and had an absurd amount of disruption. Thus, not a lot of reading.
Read, liked
- https://www.asimov.press/p/metaphors-evolution - intuition pumps
- https://www.asimov.press/p/bioinformatics - a subject dear to me as a former maker of bioinformatics software
Parked
- https://samkriss.substack.com/p/reading-is-magic
- https://benthams.substack.com/p/book-review-all-the-lives-you-can
- https://thezvi.substack.com/p/the-most-important-charts-in-the
- https://www.worksinprogress.news/p/how-disposable-diapers-conquered
- https://www.worksinprogress.news/p/why-british-nuclear-flopped
- https://kevinkelly.substack.com/p/our-uncertain-uncertainties
- https://www.owlposting.com/p/curious-cases-of-financial-engineering