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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 main
Author: Mathew McGann
# 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.
#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 the
#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 I
#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 remapping
#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 when
#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. The
#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 all