Submissions by eliotpeper

Product Lessons I Learned Making Pixar Movies

How to Do Interesting Work

A thought-provoking novel on the scariest response to climate change

Cool example of agent-based modeling applied to Covid-19 vaccine distribution

Fun newsletter about the real-world science behind science fiction

Kim Stanley Robinson on inventing plausible utopias

Don DeLillo on the Overview Effect

Sci-fi story coauthored by GPT-3, including in-character human/AI chats

Interview with August Cole, Author of Ghost Fleet and Burn-In

Startup is simulating school reopening with agent-based Covid-19 modeling

GPT-3 writing tool that generates surprisingly compelling characters/plot twists

Modeling the Pandemic

Life Profitability: New Podcast from Adii Pienaar, Founder Conversio/WooCommerce

Malka Older on the Future of Democracy

Tech and Pandemic Are Bringing People Together Even as We're Physically Apart

The most popular green bean was invented by 19th C. entrepreneurs in Ukiah

Richard Feynman cut straight to the heart of complex ideas

Luther Burbank was a plant-breeder as crazy/genius/obsessive as any SV inventor

Beautifully illustrated kids book about staying home/saving lives during Covid

Show HN: A near-future science-fiction novel about geoengineering

What If a Tech CEO Tried to Save the World with Geoengineering?

New science fiction and fantasy books to check out in May

Andy Matuschak/Michael Nielsen on the possibility space for quantum computing

The life lesson that Edward Snowden learned from Super Mario Bros