Stories by evilsimon

The Evolution of Baseball Scouting

Elite Soccer’s Culture of Graft

Littlewood's Law and the Global Media

Philip K. Dick and the Fake Humans

A New Biography of Benjamin Franklin's Early Life

Never Knowingly Understaffed: A Domestic History of the Royal Household

The History of Ice Cream

The Curmudgeonly Genre-Spanning Philip Wylie

Titivillus: The Patron Demon of Scribes (2006)

Charging for our product originally hurt but ultimately saved our startup

Into the Grey Zone

Social media bubbles may threaten democracy

Verizon wants a piece of Google's ad business

A Rust Belt Native and Technologist Re-Thinking American Manufacturing

Counterintuitive Behavior of Social Systems (1995) [pdf]

Flirtey (YC 15) claims to be first drone co to make approved commercial delivery

My Video Career

The Bicycle: Growing Popularity of the New Vehicle (1874) [pdf]

Motivated Numeracy and Enlightened Self-Government (2013)

Taʿârof, the ceremony of courtesy

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