Ideas — Noah Zender

kept by eddie may 22

Steven Johnson argues that truly understanding history requires a 'long zoom' approach, examining multiple scales from atomic to global simultaneously.

Mental Models (2018)
Mental models are simplified explanations of how things work, drawing ideas from multiple disciplines to improve decision-making and avoid common thinking errors.
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where good ideas come from (for coding agents)
Coding agents excel at adjacent-possible moves but require users to supply constraints, context, oracles, and feedback loops to become reliably useful.
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We Are (Still) Living in the Long Boring
The era of truly transformative technology ended around 1970, and modern digital advances like AI have not breached the barrier between software and physical reality.
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36 Hours in the Cotswolds
A 36‑hour guide to the Cotswolds highlights its rolling hills, historic sites, woodlands, Neolithic monuments, plus top shops and eateries for a quintessential English countryside escape.
also on #history, #culture