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Half of London drives a Hummer
How psychology and invisible forces make us buy three-ton SUVs
Aug 5
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July 2025
"My brain is open"
Being in the right network multiplies the reach of your ideas.
Jul 4
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June 2025
What if you are very, very stupid?
Understanding a proof in a math textbook is one thing; being able to reconstruct it without help is a whole other beast entirely.
Jun 6
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May 2025
Reinventing the axle
Nobody had even thought of a time machine until H.G. Wells first wrote about it in 1895.
May 2
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April 2025
This stone has a soup in it
Startups that go badly often start like the stone soup story. Like that guy who got in trouble because his AI shopping app didn’t have any AI in it.
Apr 17
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March 2025
Too many books to read
The idea that too many options cause anxiety was explored in The Paradox of Choice—a book that I haven’t read because there are too many books to read.
Mar 18
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AI Ai WeiWei
I'd follow the Instagram profile AI Ai WeiWei if one of you created one — all you’d need to do really is to share not-very-good iterations on Ai…
Mar 2
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February 2025
What about the forests
Welcome to this new incarnation of wimagguc. Why is there a new one? Where are all the older posts? Who the hell are you anyway, I followed a link here…
Feb 22
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If
After Philip II of Macedon had successfully united most of Greece through a combination of military might and diplomacy, he sent a threatening message…
Feb 8
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March 2024
Two secret agents need to meet
In this riddle, two secret agents need to meet for the very first time. They don't know anything about each other and can't communicate — so where and…
Mar 17, 2024
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