Curated Reads - Aug 9

On business, life, history of metal money and suspense of MH370

Most of the writing that we see around is fairly recent and short, however, the most impactful writing is often timeless and nuanced. I plan to curate a list of reads from time to time that I’ve found paradigm-shifting, in knowledge and/or mindset, across domains.

Here are some of the gems for this week -

[Business] Andrew Kortina writes here on the type of technologies - forklift (enabler) vs microphone (distorter) vs stethoscope (passive) (The framework is interesting) and their role in a globalised, virtualised world

[Life] Richard Hamming, a computer scientist at Bell Labs, wrote this beautiful essay on how to do good work that makes you successful (valid for all work, and not just research)

[Finance] The history of metal money - a deep dive into the financial history of civilisation by none other than the ‘alleged’ inventor of Bitcoin

[Miscellaneous] The gripping, most detailed article on what really happened to MH370 , the Malaysian Airlines plane that went missing

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