Jithu Gopal

Pure gold.

Man, the bus factor on this Musk guy.

Gulp.

COPPER🧵redux. I live near one of the largest copper mines on earth (Kennecott Utah Copper - KUC). I helped manage a smaller copper mine for 8 years. Observation: Wind/Solar/Battery Proponents & ESG bean-counters are completely out of touch with copper mining & production.

@vgr Minas TSMC 😂

Sometimes design twitter sends me searching for my eyeballs that have popped from their sockets.

@Carnage4Life If goods don’t cross borders, armies will. - Bastiat

Random etymology for the day. खर means donkey in Sanskrit. khar means the same in Persian. घोष means sound in Sanskrit. Gush means ear in Persian. Combine those, and we get “animal with large ears like a donkey”—khargush=खरगोश=rabbit

"A common mistake is to view elites as a unified block...They are not. Elites are constantly trying to get ahead of one another." ~@robkhenderson Revolutions Occur When a Significant Portion of Elites Defect From the Existing Regime, by @robkhenderson robkhenderson.substack.com/p/revolutions-…

A guide to the vocabulary of classical architecture:

This is how globes were handmade in the 1950s

"Could we have used commas instead of em-dashes in the preceding examples? Sure. Why did we choose an em-dash instead of a comma? Feel. Art. Experience." Good read on Technical Writing - developers.google.com/tech-writing/o… 💯

Didn’t realise how important a role calcium plays in our interpretation of gravity.

"As cool as being an astronaut baby sounds, the jellies didn't develop the same gravity-sensing capabilities as their Earthly relatives.") Which may not bode well for the vertebrate organisms that may be born in microgravity—space-faring humans among them theatlantic.com/technology/arc…

Do we have a Tinkering school equivalent in Bengaluru? tinkeringschool.com

The parent’s lament. Props to the amazing book ‘How to raise an adult’

0. On Independence day, I look briefly at how some of the current states came into being. Some of them I had not even heard before. This is now India looked before partition.

Georgism and Singapore. Strong land acquisition act > extract land value via land ownership > subsidise public housing and lower income tax> pour money into mega sovereign funds and turn the flywheel. progressandpoverty.substack.com/p/singapore-ec…

I really liked this concept of echolocation. Ties up with a concept i coined - The fastest learning comes from 'taking intellectual risks in public".

Our job is not to help our kids feel happy. Our job is to help our kids feel at home with themselves. Happiness naturally finds kids (and adults) who've learned to be exactly who they are.