• Silicon Valley’s worldview is not just an ideology; it’s a personality disorder. — Crooked Timber

    reductive and handwavy, but on balance a pretty solid summary of the emergent behaviors we’ve seen over the past 20 years. not that many of these haven’t been seen before, we just see the iteration process sped up dramatically.

    i particularly appreciated the call out of the politicians as insipid betas to big tech. it does seem to be exactly what we’ve seen.

  • Allied Cycles Factory Tour - Bikerumor

    the video here is pure bike manufacturing porn. if you wonder why boutique bike manufacture bikes cost so much relative to mass production bikes, look at how labor intensive the manufacturing process is for what are very small prodcution runs.