better doing

Recorded coaching session with Misha Glouberman.

This was very cool. Misha works as a coach specializing in helping people have better conversations. Listening to this real session was uniquely great and I hope he publishes more of them!“In this recording, you will hear real-life coaching sessions […]

fun facts

The invention of the laff box.

“Charley Douglass was the first guy who could make anyone laugh at the push of a button. The sound engineer invented the laff box and the laugh-track technique, which was quickly adopted by television in the 1960s and named “sweetening.” […]

fun facts

The feather heist.

This is kind of an insane story of a museum heist in the UK by an American kid with a obsession for creating fly fishing lures. “He was only 20 when he stole the birds, 299 of them. And not […]

fun facts

Torpedo juice.

“As of the beginning of World War II, American torpedoes utilized 180-proof ethyl alcohol as fuel for the miniature steam engines that drove them toward their targets. Lacking consistent access to liquor, opportunistic sailors occasionally drained the torpedoes of their […]

profiles of people

The luckiest fool who ever lived.

I did not fact check anything about this story of Lord Timothy Dexter. I sure hope it’s all true. Married into money, his first move was to try and prove how cool he is to the Boston elites by buying […]

profiles of people

Morris Chang and the origins of TSMC.

Brian Potter took the time to translate (with tech) Chang’s Chinese-language autobiography then write up this great 30 minute summary. “TSMC has a fascinating origin story: it was founded in 1985 by Morris Chang, who, after working in the US […]