Month: February 2022


  • The most beautiful force in the Universe

    As a software engineer, I always loved the notion that humans invented engineering when they stopped believing in magic: they still wanted to experience that magic but they just found out that creating it is the best way to see something that doesn’t exist yet.  That’s why “every new, advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic”…

  • Can paper be sustainable at all?

    There is a big transition (often away from plastics) into sustainable alternatives. When trees are our best technology for carbon capture, is it really sustainable to cut trees to make paper / wood? Even when those trees were initially planted under a commercial context for that sole purpose? We need to think harder about using…