Brendan Borrell

Power Soak is out today. It tells the true story of Tom Scholz, the MIT-trained engineer who built Boston's sound in his basement and then spent seven years locked in a fight to control it.

The article is correct. Improving stuff is ridiculously difficult. But it is worth it. All credit to the @TerraformIndies team for dogged persistence and consistent brilliance.

May we present to you 5,000 words on Casey Handmer and Terraform Industries reported over several months. If you would like to read about a team trying to make fuel from water, air and sunlight while working inside of a castle, we have what you need right here corememory.com/p/the-magical-…

Over the last year, I've been visiting a castle in Burbank where a small team has been building a machine that makes fuel from air, water, and sunlight. corememory.com/p/the-magical-…

Tomorrow we run a giant story on this guy. And you will want to read it.

Another banger from @jeffmaysh! So glad to finally see this one out.

@VaerSoles @Carlachi78lp @atrupar Yes.

@Carlachi78lp @atrupar It was probably the heroin babe

OMG -- the RFK Jr breathing noises during this hearing are absolutely horrifying

This week marks the release of my book Beyond Inheritance 🎉 📖. It tells the stories of patients with mysterious ailments who have been saved by a radical new view of genetics. And how whales can teach us about preserving our DNA as we age. Available now: tinyurl.com/5yjsr97n

@ashleevance Dang! Well-played.

Okay. The pod is officially unlocked. Core Memory on all major platforms and here on YouTube. Go to town. youtube.com/watch?v=NCKQL0…

@ashleevance Disgusting. But also very cool.

This might look like a finger, but it's actually a headless, limbless sack full of organs grown inside the womb of a mouse. After you're done processing that, go here to read more corememory.com/p/the-man-grow…

The kicker is definitely one for the books!

Glad to see the inimitable @danengber offer his take on the infuriating Woody Brown saga: theatlantic.com/books/2026/04/…

@TBonesPrimeCuts @rayfp @GregRenoff @GregEno @matthewbwake @paltrowitz @SilverFoxyWise @danieldevise @chrisepting @DerisoNick @StarrMSS Thanks, Terry!

#FF Some of my favorite writers, whether it be books, magazines, websites… (No particular order!) @rayfp @GregRenoff @GregEno @matthewbwake @bborrell @paltrowitz @SilverFoxyWise @danieldevise @chrisepting @DerisoNick @StarrMSS

@TODAYshow Embarrassing for everyone involved (except Woody, who seems to be a good sport about it all.)

Jenna Bush Hager says she was “so enthralled” by “Upward Bound,” her April 2026 book club pick, that she read it on a single airplane ride, “unable to tear myself away from the beauty in its pages.” today.com/popculture/boo…

This was one of the most shocking things I've ever seen on mainstream media. The son is randomly pointing, not looking at the board, or he's looking at preschool videos on his lap, and when he points he's not spelling anything, much less the flowing prose his mother-facilitator is saying. The likelihood of true authorship here is something around zero.

@ideologicalized @InteligntHodler Definitely looks like independent typing!

@bborrell @InteligntHodler Watch starting at 40 min. If you think there is prompting going on here (esp. on a level that allows him to type out complex sentences & spell these words correctly) I’m sorry you are absolutely a lunatic. m.youtube.com/watch?v=Pamjos…

Call me skeptical. He is 28, his favorite show is Thomas and Friends, and he has written a novel?

@InteligntHodler @ideologicalized You may be right. It has been a while since I reviewed some of these claims, and I have always kept an open mind. Dan Howitt has repeatedly questioned the Tito story: fhijournal.org/journals/2021/…

@bborrell @ideologicalized There are no videos of an independent typer typing out a non-scripted (memorized) message without someone nearby cueing that demonstrates literacy.

Fun story. This was the event that really compelled me to want to write a book about @elonmusk, @Tesla and @SpaceX. There was so much energy, and the company was doing things in California and the US that we were told were impossible. It felt like quite a big story to me. When I pitched the book to the publishers in New York, I was told that no one knew who @elonmusk was and that the book would have a very limited audience. They all asked me what he had actually done even as the Model S was rolling off the line and SpaceX was flying to the ISS. If memory serves, the bidding for my book started at $5,000. 😂 Narrator: It went on to sell many millions of copies.

In which my fave public intellectual, Freddie de Boer, absolutely shreds the NYT for publishing a review of a novel by a facilitated speller (and no, I'm not just sharing this because of the shout out to my book Chasing the Intact Mind :)): freddiedeboer.substack.com/p/we-have-to-h…

Sorry but I see no correlation between Woody Brown's pointing and the words his mother is saying. today.com/video/author-o…

@ideologicalized It does not follow.

@bborrell So if a few have gone from FC to independent m it means FC works for at least some & therefore might be (probably is) working for others as well who haven’t made it to independent. It means the position toward FC should be initial skepticism in individual cases but not rejection.