Radar
Subjects, essays, whitepapers, projects, research and people I find interesting, sorted by year.
- SpaceX (2002) — Making space access routine. Reusable rockets, Starlink and the path to Mars.
- Taste for Makers (2002) — Paul Graham on how good design follows consistent principles across every discipline.
- David Sinclair (2004) — Harvard geneticist working on the biology of ageing. Making longevity a solvable engineering problem.
- Good Writing (2005) — Paul Graham on why writing that sounds good is more likely to be right.
- Bitcoin White Paper (2008) — Satoshi Nakamoto's original paper. Nine pages that changed everything.
- A Fully Homomorphic Encryption Scheme (2009) — Craig Gentry's PhD thesis proving fully homomorphic encryption is possible: computing on encrypted data without decrypting it.
- How to Lose Time and Money (2010) — Paul Graham on how time and wealth are lost not to fun, but to fake work.
- Planet Labs (2010) — Imaging the entire Earth every day from the largest fleet of observation satellites. 30 TB of data daily.
- Ethereum White Paper (2014) — Vitalik Buterin's vision for a programmable blockchain. Smart contracts as a general-purpose platform.
- Pokemon Go (2016) — AR gaming that got the whole world walking. A glimpse of what location-based technology can do.
- Neuralink (2016) — Brain-computer interfaces. Bridging the gap between human cognition and machines.
- Anduril Industries (2017) — Palmer Luckey's defence tech company. Building autonomous systems and AI-powered hardware for national security.
- Ohalo Genetics (2019) — Boosted Breeding lets plants inherit complete genomes from both parents. Growing more food with fewer resources.
- WTF Happened in 1971? (2019) — A collection of charts showing how economic trends diverged after the end of the gold standard.
- Johnathan Bi (2020) — Lectures and interviews on philosophy, religion and technology.
- The Economic Value of Targeting Aging (2021) — Quantifying the economic gains from treatments that target aging itself rather than individual diseases.
- Isomorphic Labs (2021) — DeepMind spinoff using AI to redesign drug discovery. Building on AlphaFold to solve all disease.
- Anthropic (2021) — AI safety company building Claude. Focused on developing reliable, interpretable and steerable AI systems.
- Mitochondrial and Metabolic Dysfunction in Ageing and Age-Related Diseases (2022) — Review of how mitochondrial and metabolic decline drives aging and age-related disease.
- How to Do Great Work (2023) — Paul Graham's guide to finding and doing work that matters.
- Hyperliquid (2023) — On-chain perpetual exchange. Fully on-chain order book with performance that rivals centralised exchanges.
- Loss of Epigenetic Information as a Cause of Mammalian Aging (2023) — Experimental evidence that epigenetic information loss is a driver of mammalian aging and that restoring it can reverse age.
- Chemically Induced Reprogramming to Reverse Cellular Aging (2023) — Discovering chemical cocktails that can reverse cellular aging without genetic reprogramming.
- The Information Theory of Aging (2023) — Aging is driven by the progressive loss of epigenetic information and retrieving it via reprogramming can reverse tissue aging.
- Machines of Loving Grace (2024) — An optimistic vision of how powerful AI could transform biology, neuroscience, economic development, governance and the meaning of work.