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Tradecraft : the Stuff They Don’t Teach You at School
Spies, coders, journalists—they all rely on intuition, improvisation, and experience. It’s tradecraft.
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Weaponised Randomness : Monte Carlo from the Manhattan Project to The Three-Body Problem
They call it “weaponized randomness.” I had no idea what it really was until I stumbled across it in three consecutive books.
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The 2024 Reading List
It’s been a good reading year.
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Elementary : From Hadron Bootstrapping to the Implicate Order
If there’s nothing fundamental about ‘elementary’ particles, if nature never bottoms out, then what remains to hold on to?
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Teach, Don’t Tell : Lessons in Mastery, From Tennis to Welding
What’s true on the court is true in the workshop: effective teaching relies on clarity, precision, and the ability to transcend words.
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Quantum Primitives : An Ontology in 12 ½ Chapters
Mapping out the primitives of a field is a useful way to understand its landscape. In the case of quantum technology, this approach proves especially challenging—but equally rewarding.