Stories by mitchbob

What Is Venture Capital Now Anyway?

A Bionic Leg Controlled by the Brain

China's Critical Minerals Embargo Is Even Tougher Than Expected

How a Never-Ending Home Renovation Project Is Fighting Climate Change

Clay Shirky: Bluesky Is Different from X. For Now

Their Fertilizer Poisons Farmland. Now, They Want Protection from Lawsuits.

A Portrait of the Artist as an Amazon Reviewer

16th-century graffiti of Tower of London prisoners decoded for first time

'The way we think about technology is shaped by the tech companies themselves'

Karl Marx Explained the 19th Century. Wolfgang Streeck Is Explaining the 21st.

Email from Bill: Bill Gates's vision for the future. (1993)

The Lizard King of Long Island

The Island Where Environmentalism Implodes

The Dark History of the Information Age in Five Extraordinary Hacks

Voltaire (1964)

The Technology the Trump Administration Could Use to Hack Your Phone

Boom: Bubbles and the End of Stagnation

What a School Performance Shows Us About Japanese Education

An Investigation into How Prosecutors Picked Death-Penalty Juries

Substack's Great, Big, Messy Political Experiment

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