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Tonight: Join us for special listening party for We Are As Gods, a podcast from , , and Structure Films exploring the life of
Join us at The to listen to the podcast's episode on Long Now.
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Next Tuesday: you're invited to a special listening party for We Are As Gods, a podcast from , , and Structure Films exploring the life of
Join us at The to listen to the podcast's episode on Long Now.
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Bono: noted musician, and, more importantly, reader of : nytimes.com/2022/11/03/boo whole interview is a fun one!
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Agglomeration benefits = positive spillovers people generate by living near one another. They're why cities exist. Constraints on housing supply are making Americans thousands of dollars poorer by preventing more agglomeration in the most productive cities
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400+ people later…I’m ready to call it — SF is back ❣️
Thank you to everyone who came to our first pop-up! Now that we know there’s demand…stay tuned for more 🤓
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@_TamaraWinter crushing the @stripepress popup. Long sf twitter.com/_TamaraWinter/…
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Pop-up bookstore, anyone? 
Join us in San Francisco this Sunday, Oct. 16, from 1-4PM @Groundfloorclub for books, coffee, limited-run merch, and a few special guests. 
Let us know you're coming: stripe.events/stripe-press-p
Join us in San Francisco this Sunday, Oct. 16, from 1-4PM @Groundfloorclub for books, coffee, limited-run merch, and a few special guests.
Let us know you're coming: stripe.events/stripe-press-p
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It’s giving Jumanji. ( at an event in Mexico City — in the most artfully derelict building I ever did see.)
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🚨 NEW 🚀 WORKS 🥳 IN 🚀 PROGRESS 🚨
A special issue on energy abundance, flying cars, & the next technological frontier.
With on nanotech, on the death of personal aviation, on our fusionpunk future – and more!
worksinprogress.co
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With pieces on:
- Making energy “too cheap to meter”
- Risk aversion & innovation
- The death of the personal airplane industry
- The future of nanotech
- An interview with author J.Storrs Hall
And more!
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Works in Progress 🤝 Stripe Press.
If you read one thing today, make it Lost In Stagnation, a special edition of , based on Where Is My Flying Car? by J. Storrs Hall: worksinprogress.co/#issue-9
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Really excited to share something I've been working on over the past few months: Lost in Stagnation, the first special issue of Works in Progress
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Pop-up bookstore, anyone? 📚
Join us in San Francisco this Sunday, Oct. 16, from 1-4PM for books, coffee, limited-run merch, and a few special guests. 👀
Let us know you're coming: stripe.events/stripe-press-p
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. — about the strange and wonderful life of , pioneer of LSD, cyberspace, futurism, & modern environmentalism — is out now in the US and Canada:
Watch on now: apple.co/3T87p06
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For decades, @stewartbrand has advanced "ideas that seem at the edge of believability."
Next month, catch the world premiere of the film We Are As Gods at SXSW: sxsw.com/festivals/film
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"We Are As Gods" is 's new film about – pioneer of LSD, cyberspace, futurism, & modern environmentalism – and his quest to de-extinct the woolly mammoth. It's extremely interesting + enjoyable.
You can pre-order on Apple TV now:
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I had a lot of fun producing this show with . Hope you enjoyed nerding out on infrastructure with us! What would you want to hear about in Season 02?
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That's a wrap on Season 1 of Beneath the Surface!
In this epilogue episode, producers @_TamaraWinter and @typochondriac discuss everything from how fast infrastructure evolves (bullet trains in Dallas, TX?) to the moral trade-offs of certain policies. share.transistor.fm/s/51ec5cbb
In this epilogue episode, producers @_TamaraWinter and @typochondriac discuss everything from how fast infrastructure evolves (bullet trains in Dallas, TX?) to the moral trade-offs of certain policies. share.transistor.fm/s/51ec5cbb2
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That's a wrap on Season 1 of Beneath the Surface!
🎧 In this epilogue episode, producers and discuss everything from how fast infrastructure evolves (bullet trains in Dallas, TX?) to the moral trade-offs of certain policies.
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How a community of video gamers in Cuba created a DIY internet—and connected tens of thousands of people across the island.
The Street Network, a short documentary from Stripe Press, is out now via 👉
worksinprogress.co/issue/film-the
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We Are As Gods, a documentary about , debuts in US theaters August 12. Catch it on Amazon and Apple TV starting September 6.
Watch the trailer 🎥
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1/ Until now, Beneath the Surface has explored physical infrastructure, but the ultimate resource for a country is its *people*.
So today’s podcast episode is about (what else?) population! Specifically birth rates — and how countries manipulate them:
🎧share.transistor.fm/s/07d091e4
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WE ARE AS GODS is a documentary profile of the influential writer, Merry Prankster, Long Now Foundation co-founder, and Whole Earth Catalog creator Stewart Brand. First show 8/12, with Brand joining director Jason Sussberg in post-screening conversation: bit.ly/AsGodsRox
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Highlights from *Pieces of the Action*, the memoirs of Vannevar Bush (now out in a new edition from @stripepress with a foreword from @Ben_Reinhardt). On invention, leadership, war, politics, and more: rootsofprogress.org/vannevar-bush-
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WE ARE AS GODS is heading to theaters next month! Opening weekend August 12th. SF, LA, and NYC!
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👀 Recently seen at the National Museum of the Pacific War!
🚀Want to learn from Vannevar Bush, the man instrumental to these innovations?
🧭 Join + me on Aug 6 for an salon on Bush's memoir, Pieces of the Action (beautifully reprinted by )
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In August: Join @HalderAlaka and @weschow for a special book club discussion to celebrate the Stripe Press reprint of Pieces of the Action by Vannevar Bush - a man instrumental to the development of radar and the mass production of penicillin!
interintellect.com/salon/pieces-o
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This new edition includes archival images and a foreword by .
“Bush was a scientist, a statesman, an entrepreneur, a tinkerer, a leader, and an excellent storyteller. Pieces of the Action has a yarn and a lesson for everyone.”
amazon.com/dp/1953953204/
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We’ve also re-released Bush’s landmark 1945 report “Science, the Endless Frontier”:
“Without scientific progress, no amount of achievement in other directions can insure our health, prosperity, and security as a nation.”
Read on: assets.ctfassets.net/fzn2n1nzq965/2
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🔬Out today: Pieces of the Action by Vannevar Bush 📚
Read about how the scientist and engineer behind radar, the proximity fuze, the Manhattan Project, and more built the most innovative R&D ecosystem of the 20th century.
Order now: amazon.com/dp/1953953204/
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Today’s episode of Beneath the Surface is a love letter to #traintwitter — & specifically, Japan. The question behind this episode is pretty straightforward: how is it that Tokyo built the world’s most efficient transit system?
🎧: share.transistor.fm/s/e9dc0bcd
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In our b-side from last weeks episode of Beneath the Surface, dives deep with on Ireland's economic development and housing challenges for Dublin residents. Please enjoy!
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Each time a new book comes out, folks at rejoice and create a space where we can all come together and talk about it!
The next one will be on August 6, and you're warmly invited! Expect an exclusive excerpt with your ticket:
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What a pleasure to see "We Are As Gods", on and his quest to de-extinct the American Chestnut Tree and woolly mammoth, tonight. Bravo to for such a wonderful film and great to be with and the whole Stripe Press team in London.
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Over the past few years I've had pretty much one question in mind — what exactly is happening with supply chains? So for this week's episode of Beneath the Surface, I talked to someone who would know: , founder and CEO of Flexport.
🎧: share.transistor.fm/s/fc5ff1f8
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Our cover iterations for Pieces of the Action—around 12 in all—aimed to reflect the many strands of Vannevar Bush’s life and career, and his enduring influence on generations of scientists, engineers, and public policymakers: 👇
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“Even if we just produce a fraction of it, we could supply all U.S. needs for lithium and actually have enough left over to supply it to other countries.”
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two of Beneath the Surface from @stripepress is out today, and it's all about energy.
Specifically, about the evolution of the Salton Sea from "the next Palm Springs," to a ghost town, to, today — a potential "Lithium Valley." share.transistor.fm/s/ecbd3996
two of Beneath the Surface from @stripepress is out today, and it's all about energy.
Specifically, about the evolution of the Salton Sea from "the next Palm Springs," to a ghost town, to, today — a potential "Lithium Valley." share.transistor.fm/s/ecbd3996Show this thread
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Episode ✨two ✨of Beneath the Surface from is out today, and it's all about energy.
Specifically, about the evolution of the Salton Sea from "the next Palm Springs," to a ghost town, to, today — a potential "Lithium Valley." share.transistor.fm/s/ecbd3996
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A lil surprise: podcast b-sides! There were too many amazing interviews to include in the podcast, so we're sharing some of our faves as full-length episodes for the off-weeks.
Here's my full interview , author of The Shenzhen Experiment: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/b-s
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1/ At @stripe we love infrastructure & the people who, generation after generation, roll up their sleeves to build & maintain it.
Today I’m thrilled to launch the first podcast from @stripepress, Beneath the Surface, all about (what else?) infrastructure. press.stripe.com/beneath-the-su
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