The second brain is a graveyard
Locke spent twenty-five years building an index. We skipped the index and called it thinking.
Do Bragworthy Work®
Field notes on hardware design, software design, life, and building work worth bragging about. For builders, designers, founders, and non-tech too!
Live Last read · last published · next check
Latest posts
The hero of the quarter
A productivity tracker ranks the best engineer last.
Special Edition: Design Engineering x AI
From manual, to AI-assisted, to AI-native, to agentic.
How to read a rose
The Good Morning forward is the first folk art of India's new internet.
The tells of a good toolmaker
We learned a few things over the last 3 years.
Why the air cooler beats the AC in half of India
The physics, the electricity bill, and the power grid.
Hardware design & other things - #10
Naoto Fukasawa wins a German aesign award and a refreshing retro-pastel kitchen appliance.
Everything's news now
Some reminders when the news becomes overwhelming
Why cheap looks cheap before you've touched it
The eye reads quality in milliseconds but most of the tells cost nothing to remove.
50+ things worth knowing
First, some quick stories.