Brendan Adkins

Jan 7, 2021

There are always more than enough takes to go around, on days like today.

So I just want to talk about a Wikipedia article that I think about all the time. There was this guy named Louis Slotin, who worked on the Manhattan Project and then continued atomic research at Los Alamos. This story doesn’t end well for him. He particularly liked to demonstrate…

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There are always more than enough takes to go around, on days like today.

Jul 17, 2020

The Shelf Life of Peach Preserves

(To preface this, in case you somehow follow me on Medium but not on Peach itself: nothing really came of my previous essay here except some vague assurances followed by silence from the platform’s owners. But a couple of successive outages have made a number of us start thinking more…

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Feb 21, 2019

Let’s Save Peach.

Hi. If you’re reading this, you probably already use Peach, a small and special app with thoughtful design choices that help create small and special communities. …

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