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There’s plenty of room at the everywhere

admin Posted on July 20, 2020July 20, 2020

Feynman was excited by nanotechnology before it was cool, and way before it stopped being cool. In 1959 he gave a lecture that’s come to be known by it’s mainContinue readingThere’s plenty of room at the everywhere

Posted on February 1, 2019
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# 66 On scientific customs

Dear Jamie,  As agreed on the phone this letter will be the last for a while because we’ve agreed to start a new letter series on a friend’s new platform.Continue reading# 66 On scientific customs

Posted on December 26, 2018December 26, 2018
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#64 On the degrees of skyhookery

Dear Jamie, Your letter reminded me of one of the most mind-boggling experiences I had. I watched Derren Brown’s show Miracle. In Miracle, before the segment started, he told theContinue reading#64 On the degrees of skyhookery

Posted on November 23, 2018November 23, 2018
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#62 On Foundations

Dear Jamie, Congratulations for drafting the final chapter of your thesis! You’ve already managed the whole thing with much more grace than I did. I’m writing this bit before IContinue reading#62 On Foundations

Posted on October 25, 2018
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#60 On scientific confidence

Dear Jamie However many times I’ve been truly guilty of dastardliness in past letters, my last one was a genuine effort to understand. My brain was having serious trouble remappingContinue reading#60 On scientific confidence

Posted on September 12, 2018
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#58 On the conditions of knowledge

Dear Jamie, Years ago I heard a story (possibly apocryphal) that after the space race the Russian and American space agencies made things unnecessarily complicated and expensive for themselves whenContinue reading#58 On the conditions of knowledge

Posted on August 16, 2018
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#56 On systems and their yardsticks

Dear Jamie, I love snide but every part of your second paragraph tells me you didn’t understand my last letter at all. But the gut/unconscious is a good topic. TheContinue reading#56 On systems and their yardsticks

Posted on June 27, 2018June 27, 2018
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#54 On surviving for a living

Dear Jamie, In 2009 I went on a trip to Europe. The year before I had read the life-turn-upside-downing 4 Hour Workweek and made a bunch of friends from allContinue reading#54 On surviving for a living

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