Power Soak is out today. It tells the true story of Tom Scholz, the MIT-trained engineer who built Boston's sound in his basement and then spent seven years locked in a fight to control it.
These guys are about to send a giant mirror into space. Some people love the idea. Others hate it. But you can't deny that these two are extraordinary badasses and thoughtful humans.
"The people of San Francisco were quickly dubbed spiritually LinkedIn, unbearably cringe, totally sociopathic, and our biggest sin of all: we are ugly, so ugly . . . that we are doomed to die alone because we could not be more repulsive."
Not The Boring Company.
"Their machine was the size of a school bus. It rested half-in, half-out of the ground like a whale’s back, a riotous beast of the deep now warming in the Illinois sun."
I'm hooked, @geoffmanaugh. Halfway through . . .
Stoked to have new fiction out about two brothers in rural Illinois who build a tunneling machine from abandoned farm equipment, then set off together under the Mississippi. Part Mark Twain, part Jules Verne—the Wright Brothers of the American underground. nautilus.plotter.cc
Just a friendly reminder that Jason Arday fabricated his “interviews” in a 2018 study and then crafted a misleading correction to conceal this when he was called out on it five years later.
