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Former baby and aspiring ghost. Weekly column on tech . Wrote a book on how things get from the factory to our front doors, out September.

Baltimore, MD
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    Feb 27

    This week I wrote about the Achilles' Heel of the 200 (!) new models of electric vehicles automakers will roll out in next 5 years: America's infrastructure for charging these vehicles quickly isn't great

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  2. 18 hours ago

    Would you go on a cruise if everyone on it was also vaccinated?

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  3. 20 hours ago

    Earth will run out of oxygen in about a billion years

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  4. 22 hours ago

    this is not in any way an indictment of NFTs, I think they're great! huzzah for innovation! I just think the discussion is... well, typically breathless

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  5. 22 hours ago

    current NFT valuations, explained: Jack buys some beanie babies for $2 apiece, two years later they're worth 200x that because it's 1997 Jack trades the beanie baby for his friend's velvet painting of a clown is the picture of a clown actually worth $1200?

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  6. 22 hours ago

    y'all know these eye-popping prices for NFTs are on account of their being bought with crypto coins people paid effectively nothing for, but they held onto them and now they're worth a lot, so the cognitive bias is "eh, what's it to me" ...right?

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  7. 22 hours ago

    Less Lysol, more condoms: How manufacturers are planning for America's grand reopening. "To gauge demand for Durex, Mr. Licht watches the pace of restaurant and bar reopenings in key markets"

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  8. 24 hours ago

    "the facility has... 40 meeting rooms with air-tight glass panels and separate ventilation systems"

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  9. Retweeted
    Mar 5

    “'Screen time'” — as a concept to track meticulously, to fret and panic about, to measure parents’ worth in — is no longer considered a valid framework in a pandemic world.” Great read from on how a year lived online has changed children.

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  10. Mar 5

    every time I successfully pair a bluetooth thing with a new thing it feels like I've solved maxwell's equations in my head

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  11. Mar 5

    Even when we know something is untrue, disinformation can modify our behavior "It was found that even short (under 5-min) exposure to fake news was able to significantly modify the unconscious behavior of individuals."

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  12. Mar 5

    India Threatens Jail for Facebook, WhatsApp and Twitter Employees

    Text Shot: Greg Nojeim, senior counsel for the Center for Democracy and Technology think tank in Washington, said the guidelines would require WhatsApp to archive what each user shares, robbing them of the absolute privacy provided by end-to-end encryption, one of the app’s longtime user benefits. “One large country, by adopting and enforcing these rules, could make it so that large messaging platforms either pull…
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  13. Mar 5

    now a blockchain maximalist, what’s the weirdest thing it’s going to transform?

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    Mar 5

    How do the CEOs keep getting so much more productive than us? I guess from using all those book summary apps.

    CEO-to-worker pay ratio: 1965: 21-to-1 1978: 31-to-1 1989: 61-to-1 1995: 118-to-1 Now: 320-to-1 Do you see a problem here?
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  15. Mar 5

    Wyoming Coal Country Pivots, Reluctantly, to Wind Farms

    Text Shot: In this heavily Republican state, people raise climate change issues “only if they want to be punched in the face,” Mr. Weickum said. What’s driving the change is pragmatism. At least six coal companies have filed for bankruptcy in the past six years, and the state’s coal mining sector last year alone lost 761 jobs. Two decades ago, coal generated 96 percent of the electricity in Wyoming; by 2019, it…
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  16. Mar 4

    I wonder if our post-pandemic way of living will so scramble commercial real estate that someday soon, someone will be like "Yeah I live in what used to be a shopping mall, shop at what used to be an office, and go to the gym in a former big-box store, nbd"

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    Mar 4

    Well, that's quite the chart in this story.

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    Mar 4

    I feel like this point needs to be emphasized way more (from the Morning Briefing)

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  19. Mar 4

    importance of mixing the wet ingredients together before adding to the dry

    Curious: What’s an example of an issue about which you actually changed your mind?
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  20. Mar 4

    Q: What Happens When 10 Million Tenants Can’t Make Rent? A: Massive transfer of private homes and “mom and pop” landlord-owned properties to real estate giants

    Text Shot: In an October survey of smaller landlords, 30 percent reported increased pressure to sell their property, due to fallout from the pandemic. Yet investors looking to profit from the fallout have referred to this hardship as the “greatest buying opportunity of the century.” They are already preparing to acquire these distressed properties, sitting on more than $300 billion in “dry powder” for this purpose.
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  21. Mar 4

    This is one of the coolest and most creative visualizations of a phenomenon I’ve ever seen It’s also an important account of one of the biggest potential climate tipping points we may be rapidly pushing ourselves over

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