A File For All Seasons
Prior to Johannes Gutenberg, the information cycles of knowledge creation, propagation, and consumption worked via a tightly controlled trickle of manually crafted books. These cycles were slow and highly inefficient …
Knowledge, Context, Purpose
They say the forest can be hidden by the trees, yet the devil is in the details, and in any case, he who increases knowledge, increases pain. Knowledge comes in …
I read your PDF
In 1944, inspired by Rommel‘s book, George Patton embarked on his own French adventure. Hollywood responsibly supported the national war spirit in various ways. The WW2 defense effort was bolstered …
The AI jungle book for engineering
It’s a jungle out there, and it’s a jungle in here, too. Those who ignore it receive the Darwin Award one way or another. History is full of examples of …
For whom the chaos calls
One common theme from both history and technology is a perpetual struggle between simplicity and complexity. Simplicity is about energy efficiency and reducing the chance of errors, all at the …
