Bryan Caplan reflects on maintaining childlike psychological traits into adulthood—prioritizing fun over duties, embracing curiosity and imagination, and rejecting retirement—while acknowledging how his youthful mindset occasionally puts his aging body at risk.

Neotenous is also a wonderful (relative) neologism.

An essay about how biology education fails to convey the wonder and mystery of life by presenting facts without astonishment, and how encountering biology through evocative language and genuine curiosity—rather than rote memorization—transforms understanding of how life actually works.

This is all seems pretty straightforward, but this caught my attention:

active use within adopting firms spans job functions and seniority levels, with especially high usage intensity among early-career workers

This wasn't the case a few years ago, when high-tenure workers were dominant.

An interactive exploration of everyday objects and technologies that were once considered miraculous luxuries, from on-demand music to electric lighting to photography, presented through historical quotes and modern apartment scenes.

Fun visual story telling (and a history I hadn't really thought about this way before)

A deep dive into Gorton, an obscure and quirky font that appears everywhere on New York City signage and vintage keyboards, exploring its mysterious origins, unusual letterforms, and surprising prevalence across the city.

Exquisite storytelling for font nerds (and everyone else).

A documentary exploring luxury fashion designer Brunello Cucinelli's philosophical approach to business, wealth creation, and the intersection of artificial intelligence with modern commerce.

Explores how restraint, curation, and subtraction—exemplified by producer Rick Rubin's invisible hand in shaping iconic music—represent the true creative power in an era of algorithmic noise and constant visibility.

The parametron, invented by Eiichi Goto in 1954, was a bistable circuit element using ferrite cores that enabled the development of early Japanese computers, including the PC-1. Its invention and application in computing had significant historical impact on computer engineering in Japan, influencing multiple major electronics manufacturers and nurturing a new generation of engineers.

Japan’s first university-built stored-program computer which became the nation's then-fastest in 1958

An essay arguing that as AI collapses the cost and effort of building software, the filtering function that effort once provided disappears, leaving "taste" — the judgment of what deserves to exist — as the remaining meaningful differentiator in software craft.

An argument that intelligence and technological capability are often not the primary barriers to real-world progress, using examples like medical regulation and housing policy to illustrate how political will, institutional constraints, and regulatory bottlenecks frequently matter more than raw intelligence or AI advancement.

An analysis of how previous technology revolutions (PCs, the internet, smartphones) typically increased workloads and benefited companies more than employees, and why AI may be different by actually performing work rather than just accelerating it. The piece argues that while AI is currently causing workplace disruption, it has the potential to free up time for creative thinking and collaboration rather than simply raising productivity expectations.

A multiplayer agent harness for work. In Slack and on the web.

Companies that invest heavily in AI grow headcount 10% over the two years following adoption. Entry-level headcount grows 12%.

His ZX Spectrum computers brought affordable personal computing to the masses and sold in their millions across the world. But his attempt to launch an electric vehicle was not successful, and caused him severe financial problems.

Key argument (from David, 1990, American Economic Review, Vol. 80, No. 2, pp. 355-361):

I've been spending a lot of time thinking about the shape of the capabilities of coding agents. What they're good at now, what they're going to be good at. What they're bad at now, how much of that is inherent and how much is transient.

Key details from coverage (NYT article paywalled; sourced from aggregated reporting):

Format: Free half-day workshop. Build AI agents, watch them compete in real-time football simulation.