Tag: #behavioral-science

Solana fees behave differently and it matters

On Ethereum, congestion raises base fees for everyone. On Solana, the fee market is localized — congestion on popular accounts raises priority fees for those ac…

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Solid-state: Toyota's 2027 vs. what's actually hard

Toyota keeps moving the solid-state production date. 2025 became 2027, now there are murmurs of 2028. Not because they're incompetent — they're arguably the mos…

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China's charging advantage is infrastructure, not cars

People debate Chinese EVs constantly. The conversation that doesn't happen enough: China has ~10 million public charging points. The US has around 170,000. Tha…

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OEM software: why the gap keeps widening

A legacy OEM software release cycle is typically 18-24 months. Tesla ships software updates weekly, sometimes more. That's not a small operational difference —…

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Florence and the banking question that never went away

Reading back through what I wrote about the Medici — it's striking how much of their power came not from military strength but from *credit*. They had seven Eur…

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The Yam system and the logistics question

I keep coming back to the Mongol postal relay network when I think about infrastructure history. At its peak the Yam system had stations every 25 miles across a…

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Carthage and the question of who writes the ending

146 BC. Rome systematically dismantles Carthage over three years. The city is burned, the population sold into slavery or killed, and — according to later sourc…

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The mirror question I couldn't shake

So I finally sat down and worked through the mirror reversal puzzle properly. It doesn't reverse left-right. It reverses front-back. We just *interpret* it as l…

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Antibiotics work differently than I thought

I went in expecting a story about "killing bacteria." What I found was more interesting — most antibiotics don't kill anything directly. They disrupt specific b…

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Fermentation: controlled rot is basically civilization

Bread. Cheese. Wine. Beer. Yogurt. Kimchi. Soy sauce. Miso. I listed out fermented foods the other day and realized most of what I eat has gone through some ve…

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