Best of my Twitter, May 31–June 6 (a few days behind, still ironing out the process… For the latest, follow me on Twitter: @jasoncrawford.)

After last time someone suggested embedding the tweets instead of linking to them, but I don't think I can post embeds here, and for my main blog I don't like the format as much. I’m sticking with links for now, but let me know if you’d rather scroll through a list of embeds (like this).

Links

• A Reddit thread appreciating the engineering of everyday items
• Jim Pethokoukis’s “Up Wing” agenda
• Arcadia Science is experimenting with a new way of publishing scientific work
• Michael Nielsen on vision papers
• Ryan Petersen of Flexport talks to Tamara Winter about supply chains
• Californians Against Pandemics is running a ballot initiative to invest in pandemic preparedness (h/t @NathanpmYoung)
• High housing prices are driving low-skilled workers from high-productivity to low-productivity areas (Alex Tabarrok)
• The B612 Foundation discovered more than 100 asteroids by analyzing years-old images (NYT)
• “Subsidiarity is a principle of social organization that holds that social and political issues should be dealt with at the most immediate (or local) level that is consistent with their resolution.” (h/t Stewart Brand)

Tweets

• The original NYC subway was completed faster than the average environmental impact statement
• How many of WIRED’s “boom spoiler” scenarios from 1997 came true? (thread)
• Some reasons I am skeptical of “harmony with nature” (thread)
• But for the US Army Corps of Engineers, the Mississippi would no longer flow through New Orleans
• Why we can’t have electric planes (yet)
• One standard deviation in rule of law is associated with a 6.4-fold difference in per capita income

• McCloskey on “the idea that ideas about ideas are unscientific”
• 19th-century medicine would unabashedly rely on anecdotal evidence
• Vannevar Bush on the proper lab atmosphere
• Who are the real revolutionaries?
• In 1901 the market cap of the largest company was greater than the US national debt
• Bacon on how to do a proper case-control study
• Pixar founder Ed Catmull on how to see randomness as part of the beauty of life

Retweets

• Suraj Patel has an abundance agenda (@SurajPatel)
• “It seemed to be more a criticism of everything bad phrased as a prediction of doom” (@anderssandberg)
• Productivity is the path to equity (@DKThomp)
• To learn from mistakes, you have to build at the right pace (@stewartbrand)