Until this morning, I didn’t really understand how it was possible for a sailboat to sail into the wind: popular descriptions like Wikipedia’s talk about keels and lift and the Bernoulli effect and so forth, but this feels like a leap beyond my understanding: I wanted an account of how it is even possible in […]

A while ago, I wrote a blog post called Making Money Disappear Through Infinite Iteration, and I just put out a video version of this post on youtube.  Note: it’s very rough and unpolished, but I hope to make more videos and get better at their production as time goes on. I’d been interested in […]