Essays at the confluence of finance, data, design, and the way we think.
Startups need capital most exactly when they are hardest to value. An interactive look at SAFEs — and why the same structure appears in Hong Kong presale flats and Kickstarter.
FinanceA short history of MP3, psychoacoustics and information compression: an interactive essay on hearing, trade-offs, and learning to forget.
Data × BehaviourA riffle needs seven, an overhand a thousand, a computer just 51. An interactive look at why looking shuffled and being fair are two different things.
MathematicsPart II of AI Prehistory: from computability and the universal machine to programming and the foundations of modern AI. An interactive bilingual article.
AIOne is deadlier, the other spreads faster — which should worry us more? An interactive look at how transmission quietly compounds.
Data × BehaviourSome pieces are free. The deep dives are for members — along with the archive, the lab, and class discounts.
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