Memory + Search + Flow + Serendipity
This month’s books, poised
A work in progress
An Introduction
One idea I’ve been thinking about recently is the allocation of space. There are *lots* of different scales and applications we could consider here. At the city level, a clear example is…
Recommended civil excavation project
To quote: “Urban histories can be told in a thousand ways.”
Recommended article
How might simpler models act as a “fresh entry point into processes that have…
Recommended podcast
Bridging the idea of maintenance & infrastructure across history (Ed Glaeser), economics (Larry Summers), and entrepreneurship (Martin Casado).
Recommended aerial view
Recommended book
Recommended paper
My favorite definition of cyberphysical systems (CPS) comes from the National Science Foundation (2018):
CPS tightly integrate computing devices, actuation and control, networking…
Recommended etymology
What’s the etymology of the Chinese word for “system”?
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