Lawrence Wilkinson
@lhwilkinson.bsky.social
Serial entrepreneur, turned advisor/investor, mostly to not-for-profit and social ventures
A provocative argument that philosophers must grapple with the meaning of thermodynamics: "Reality is evil" @dmdalton.bsky.social @aeon.co
(Plus- Stephen Hawking)
Wrestling with reality: roughlydaily.com/2026/01/08/r...
(Plus- Stephen Hawking)
Wrestling with reality: roughlydaily.com/2026/01/08/r...
January 8, 2026 at 5:09 PM
A provocative argument that philosophers must grapple with the meaning of thermodynamics: "Reality is evil" @dmdalton.bsky.social @aeon.co
(Plus- Stephen Hawking)
Wrestling with reality: roughlydaily.com/2026/01/08/r...
(Plus- Stephen Hawking)
Wrestling with reality: roughlydaily.com/2026/01/08/r...
On the impact of a pioneering cable network: "MTV: A Farewell to the Channel That Changed Our World" @thatericalper.com
(Plus- Bowie's "Changes")
Recollecting rock: roughlydaily.com/2026/01/07/i...
(Plus- Bowie's "Changes")
Recollecting rock: roughlydaily.com/2026/01/07/i...
January 7, 2026 at 5:23 PM
On the impact of a pioneering cable network: "MTV: A Farewell to the Channel That Changed Our World" @thatericalper.com
(Plus- Bowie's "Changes")
Recollecting rock: roughlydaily.com/2026/01/07/i...
(Plus- Bowie's "Changes")
Recollecting rock: roughlydaily.com/2026/01/07/i...
Baroque music’s glorious revolution: "The Famous Mr. Hendel" @laphamsquarterly.bsky.social
(Plus- Giuseppe Sammartini)
Conjuring creativity from chaos: roughlydaily.com/2026/01/06/h...
(Plus- Giuseppe Sammartini)
Conjuring creativity from chaos: roughlydaily.com/2026/01/06/h...
January 6, 2026 at 4:41 PM
Baroque music’s glorious revolution: "The Famous Mr. Hendel" @laphamsquarterly.bsky.social
(Plus- Giuseppe Sammartini)
Conjuring creativity from chaos: roughlydaily.com/2026/01/06/h...
(Plus- Giuseppe Sammartini)
Conjuring creativity from chaos: roughlydaily.com/2026/01/06/h...
China, the U.S., and the World: Dan Wang's "2025 Letter" (Plus- The Cultural Revolution)
Grappling with geoeconomics and geopolitics: roughlydaily.com/2026/01/05/m...
Grappling with geoeconomics and geopolitics: roughlydaily.com/2026/01/05/m...
January 5, 2026 at 4:43 PM
China, the U.S., and the World: Dan Wang's "2025 Letter" (Plus- The Cultural Revolution)
Grappling with geoeconomics and geopolitics: roughlydaily.com/2026/01/05/m...
Grappling with geoeconomics and geopolitics: roughlydaily.com/2026/01/05/m...
Peering into the future with Behance founder @scottbelsky.bsky.social and others: "12 Outlooks for the Future: 2026+"
(Plus- Carnegie Science)
Contemplating what's coming: roughlydaily.com/2026/01/04/i...
(Plus- Carnegie Science)
Contemplating what's coming: roughlydaily.com/2026/01/04/i...
January 4, 2026 at 5:20 PM
Peering into the future with Behance founder @scottbelsky.bsky.social and others: "12 Outlooks for the Future: 2026+"
(Plus- Carnegie Science)
Contemplating what's coming: roughlydaily.com/2026/01/04/i...
(Plus- Carnegie Science)
Contemplating what's coming: roughlydaily.com/2026/01/04/i...
Marshall McLuhan's "Laws of (New) Media"- what they are and how to apply them.
(Plus- The Amy Fisher story blankets the networks)
Engaging with the emergent: roughlydaily.com/2026/01/03/e...
(Plus- The Amy Fisher story blankets the networks)
Engaging with the emergent: roughlydaily.com/2026/01/03/e...
January 3, 2026 at 3:27 PM
Marshall McLuhan's "Laws of (New) Media"- what they are and how to apply them.
(Plus- The Amy Fisher story blankets the networks)
Engaging with the emergent: roughlydaily.com/2026/01/03/e...
(Plus- The Amy Fisher story blankets the networks)
Engaging with the emergent: roughlydaily.com/2026/01/03/e...
Aging is tough; Catherine Hiller offers a guide: "How to Be Old" @oldstermag.bsky.social
(Plus- National Buffet Day)
Musing on maturity: roughlydaily.com/2026/01/02/m...
(Plus- National Buffet Day)
Musing on maturity: roughlydaily.com/2026/01/02/m...
January 2, 2026 at 4:25 PM
Aging is tough; Catherine Hiller offers a guide: "How to Be Old" @oldstermag.bsky.social
(Plus- National Buffet Day)
Musing on maturity: roughlydaily.com/2026/01/02/m...
(Plus- National Buffet Day)
Musing on maturity: roughlydaily.com/2026/01/02/m...
A bumper crop of soon-to-be-freely-available works: "Public Domain Day 2026 Is Coming: Here’s What to Know," from @copyrightlately.bsky.social (Plus- Winter Holidays with @jstordaily.bsky.social, Radiohead, and The Kinks)
Makin' a list: roughlydaily.com/2025/12/20/t...
Makin' a list: roughlydaily.com/2025/12/20/t...
December 20, 2025 at 6:07 PM
A bumper crop of soon-to-be-freely-available works: "Public Domain Day 2026 Is Coming: Here’s What to Know," from @copyrightlately.bsky.social (Plus- Winter Holidays with @jstordaily.bsky.social, Radiohead, and The Kinks)
Makin' a list: roughlydaily.com/2025/12/20/t...
Makin' a list: roughlydaily.com/2025/12/20/t...
A case study in how our vocabulary (and our sense of duty) evolved: "How debt shaped the way we speak" @colingorrie.bsky.social
(Plus- Rose Marie Reid)
Acknowledging our antecedents: roughlydaily.com/2025/12/19/l...
(Plus- Rose Marie Reid)
Acknowledging our antecedents: roughlydaily.com/2025/12/19/l...
December 19, 2025 at 5:17 PM
A case study in how our vocabulary (and our sense of duty) evolved: "How debt shaped the way we speak" @colingorrie.bsky.social
(Plus- Rose Marie Reid)
Acknowledging our antecedents: roughlydaily.com/2025/12/19/l...
(Plus- Rose Marie Reid)
Acknowledging our antecedents: roughlydaily.com/2025/12/19/l...
A (poignant and provocative) taxonomy of plastic bread clips: HORG- Holotypic Occlupanid Research Group
(Plus- Harold Varmus)
Contemplate classification: roughlydaily.com/2025/12/18/t...
(Plus- Harold Varmus)
Contemplate classification: roughlydaily.com/2025/12/18/t...
December 18, 2025 at 3:39 PM
A (poignant and provocative) taxonomy of plastic bread clips: HORG- Holotypic Occlupanid Research Group
(Plus- Harold Varmus)
Contemplate classification: roughlydaily.com/2025/12/18/t...
(Plus- Harold Varmus)
Contemplate classification: roughlydaily.com/2025/12/18/t...
A glorious collection of obscure- but fascinating- knowledge: Freakpages
(Plus- Lord Kelvin)
Explore: roughlydaily.com/2025/12/17/c...
(Plus- Lord Kelvin)
Explore: roughlydaily.com/2025/12/17/c...
December 17, 2025 at 3:58 PM
A glorious collection of obscure- but fascinating- knowledge: Freakpages
(Plus- Lord Kelvin)
Explore: roughlydaily.com/2025/12/17/c...
(Plus- Lord Kelvin)
Explore: roughlydaily.com/2025/12/17/c...
A half-ruined former vacation town on the edge of the Salton Sea hosts a postapocalyptic experiment in radical living: "The Last Resort" @thebeliever.net
(Plus- Eugène Dubois)
Dancing with destiny: roughlydaily.com/2025/12/16/y...
(Plus- Eugène Dubois)
Dancing with destiny: roughlydaily.com/2025/12/16/y...
December 16, 2025 at 3:16 PM
A half-ruined former vacation town on the edge of the Salton Sea hosts a postapocalyptic experiment in radical living: "The Last Resort" @thebeliever.net
(Plus- Eugène Dubois)
Dancing with destiny: roughlydaily.com/2025/12/16/y...
(Plus- Eugène Dubois)
Dancing with destiny: roughlydaily.com/2025/12/16/y...
Two of the best 2025 "year-end" lists, from Tom Whitwell and @dkthomp.bsky.social
(Plus- Dusty Springfield vs.Apartheid)
Read 'em and reap: roughlydaily.com/2025/12/15/c...
(Plus- Dusty Springfield vs.Apartheid)
Read 'em and reap: roughlydaily.com/2025/12/15/c...
December 15, 2025 at 4:55 PM
Two of the best 2025 "year-end" lists, from Tom Whitwell and @dkthomp.bsky.social
(Plus- Dusty Springfield vs.Apartheid)
Read 'em and reap: roughlydaily.com/2025/12/15/c...
(Plus- Dusty Springfield vs.Apartheid)
Read 'em and reap: roughlydaily.com/2025/12/15/c...
How the NFL (re)made the sports world in its image: "Whose league is it anyway?" @maitreyiaa.bsky.social @defector.com
(Plus- Nicaea and The Gipper)
Pondering plutocrats: roughlydaily.com/2025/12/14/t...
(Plus- Nicaea and The Gipper)
Pondering plutocrats: roughlydaily.com/2025/12/14/t...
December 14, 2025 at 4:55 PM
How the NFL (re)made the sports world in its image: "Whose league is it anyway?" @maitreyiaa.bsky.social @defector.com
(Plus- Nicaea and The Gipper)
Pondering plutocrats: roughlydaily.com/2025/12/14/t...
(Plus- Nicaea and The Gipper)
Pondering plutocrats: roughlydaily.com/2025/12/14/t...
(Re-)framing-- and (re-)focusing our response to climate change: "The Electrotech Revolution- the shape of things to come" @ember-energy.org
(Plus- Franz Aepinus)
Plug in: roughlydaily.com/2025/12/13/t...
(Plus- Franz Aepinus)
Plug in: roughlydaily.com/2025/12/13/t...
December 13, 2025 at 4:02 PM
(Re-)framing-- and (re-)focusing our response to climate change: "The Electrotech Revolution- the shape of things to come" @ember-energy.org
(Plus- Franz Aepinus)
Plug in: roughlydaily.com/2025/12/13/t...
(Plus- Franz Aepinus)
Plug in: roughlydaily.com/2025/12/13/t...
On the prospect of "conscious" computing: "The New AI Consciousness Paper" @astralcodexten.com.web.brid.gy (with cameos from @nealstephenson.bsky.social and @eschwitz.bsky.social)
(Plus- Claude Lévi-Strauss)
Thinking about thinking: roughlydaily.com/2025/11/28/e...
(Plus- Claude Lévi-Strauss)
Thinking about thinking: roughlydaily.com/2025/11/28/e...
November 28, 2025 at 4:45 PM
On the prospect of "conscious" computing: "The New AI Consciousness Paper" @astralcodexten.com.web.brid.gy (with cameos from @nealstephenson.bsky.social and @eschwitz.bsky.social)
(Plus- Claude Lévi-Strauss)
Thinking about thinking: roughlydaily.com/2025/11/28/e...
(Plus- Claude Lévi-Strauss)
Thinking about thinking: roughlydaily.com/2025/11/28/e...
What's become of "the foodie" and what it would mean to take taste serously again: "Who Was the Foodie?" @aliciadkennedy.bsky.social @yalereview.bsky.social
(Plus- the first [official] Thanksgiving)
Contemplating comestibles: roughlydaily.com/2025/11/26/f...
(Plus- the first [official] Thanksgiving)
Contemplating comestibles: roughlydaily.com/2025/11/26/f...
November 26, 2025 at 5:14 PM
What's become of "the foodie" and what it would mean to take taste serously again: "Who Was the Foodie?" @aliciadkennedy.bsky.social @yalereview.bsky.social
(Plus- the first [official] Thanksgiving)
Contemplating comestibles: roughlydaily.com/2025/11/26/f...
(Plus- the first [official] Thanksgiving)
Contemplating comestibles: roughlydaily.com/2025/11/26/f...
What Las Vegas can tell us about ourselves: "Mourning and Melancholia in Las Vegas" @hedgehogreview.bsky.social @lukewinkie.bsky.social @slate.com
(Plus- The Aladdin)
Checking the odds: roughlydaily.com/2025/11/25/l...
(Plus- The Aladdin)
Checking the odds: roughlydaily.com/2025/11/25/l...
November 25, 2025 at 5:11 PM
What Las Vegas can tell us about ourselves: "Mourning and Melancholia in Las Vegas" @hedgehogreview.bsky.social @lukewinkie.bsky.social @slate.com
(Plus- The Aladdin)
Checking the odds: roughlydaily.com/2025/11/25/l...
(Plus- The Aladdin)
Checking the odds: roughlydaily.com/2025/11/25/l...
What biology can teach us about the body politic: "The Sovereign Individual Does Not Exist" @nilsgilman.bsky.social
(Plus- The Origin of the Species)
Incorporating the interconnected: roughlydaily.com/2025/11/24/n...
(Plus- The Origin of the Species)
Incorporating the interconnected: roughlydaily.com/2025/11/24/n...
November 24, 2025 at 4:43 PM
What biology can teach us about the body politic: "The Sovereign Individual Does Not Exist" @nilsgilman.bsky.social
(Plus- The Origin of the Species)
Incorporating the interconnected: roughlydaily.com/2025/11/24/n...
(Plus- The Origin of the Species)
Incorporating the interconnected: roughlydaily.com/2025/11/24/n...
On different religions as "alternative technologies of the divine" Kwame Anthony Appiah via @ayjay.bsky.social (Plus- My Sweet Lord)
The ecumenical embrace: roughlydaily.com/2025/11/23/a...
The ecumenical embrace: roughlydaily.com/2025/11/23/a...
November 23, 2025 at 4:58 PM
On different religions as "alternative technologies of the divine" Kwame Anthony Appiah via @ayjay.bsky.social (Plus- My Sweet Lord)
The ecumenical embrace: roughlydaily.com/2025/11/23/a...
The ecumenical embrace: roughlydaily.com/2025/11/23/a...
Arthur Goldhammer on this moment, in which (for many of us, anyway) even as we strive to stave off despair, hope is hard to find: "Perseverance in Despair"
(Plus- Max Headroom intrudes)
Keep on: roughlydaily.com/2025/11/22/i...
(Plus- Max Headroom intrudes)
Keep on: roughlydaily.com/2025/11/22/i...
November 22, 2025 at 6:00 PM
Arthur Goldhammer on this moment, in which (for many of us, anyway) even as we strive to stave off despair, hope is hard to find: "Perseverance in Despair"
(Plus- Max Headroom intrudes)
Keep on: roughlydaily.com/2025/11/22/i...
(Plus- Max Headroom intrudes)
Keep on: roughlydaily.com/2025/11/22/i...
The Periodic Table of the Elements, in Pictures and Words
(Plus- Hieronymous Theodor Richter)
Tangle with taxonomy: roughlydaily.com/2025/11/21/e...
#culture #elements #hieronymoustheodorrichter #history #indium #periodictable #periodictableofelements #richter #science #technology
(Plus- Hieronymous Theodor Richter)
Tangle with taxonomy: roughlydaily.com/2025/11/21/e...
#culture #elements #hieronymoustheodorrichter #history #indium #periodictable #periodictableofelements #richter #science #technology
November 21, 2025 at 4:55 PM
The Periodic Table of the Elements, in Pictures and Words
(Plus- Hieronymous Theodor Richter)
Tangle with taxonomy: roughlydaily.com/2025/11/21/e...
#culture #elements #hieronymoustheodorrichter #history #indium #periodictable #periodictableofelements #richter #science #technology
(Plus- Hieronymous Theodor Richter)
Tangle with taxonomy: roughlydaily.com/2025/11/21/e...
#culture #elements #hieronymoustheodorrichter #history #indium #periodictable #periodictableofelements #richter #science #technology
Sam Altman says the one-person billion-dollar company is coming. @evrat.bsky.social tried to build one. "All of My Employees Are AI Agents, and So Are My Executives" @wired.com via @caitlindewey.bsky.social
(Plus- Lysenko)
Analyzing autonomy: roughlydaily.com/2025/11/20/t...
(Plus- Lysenko)
Analyzing autonomy: roughlydaily.com/2025/11/20/t...
November 20, 2025 at 5:02 PM
Sam Altman says the one-person billion-dollar company is coming. @evrat.bsky.social tried to build one. "All of My Employees Are AI Agents, and So Are My Executives" @wired.com via @caitlindewey.bsky.social
(Plus- Lysenko)
Analyzing autonomy: roughlydaily.com/2025/11/20/t...
(Plus- Lysenko)
Analyzing autonomy: roughlydaily.com/2025/11/20/t...
An early 20th-century movement in France that prefigured much of what we now celebrate in speculative fiction: "Merveilleux-scientifique" @aeon.co
(Plus- magic lanterns)
Speculate: roughlydaily.com/2025/11/19/e...
(Plus- magic lanterns)
Speculate: roughlydaily.com/2025/11/19/e...
November 19, 2025 at 4:12 PM
An early 20th-century movement in France that prefigured much of what we now celebrate in speculative fiction: "Merveilleux-scientifique" @aeon.co
(Plus- magic lanterns)
Speculate: roughlydaily.com/2025/11/19/e...
(Plus- magic lanterns)
Speculate: roughlydaily.com/2025/11/19/e...
Is AI birthing a new art form, a new medium? "From Cinema To The Noematograph" @kyliu99.bsky.social @nilsgilman.bsky.social @futurologypod.bsky.social
(Plus- Ben Hur)
Stressing the subjective: roughlydaily.com/2025/11/18/t...
(Plus- Ben Hur)
Stressing the subjective: roughlydaily.com/2025/11/18/t...
November 18, 2025 at 4:31 PM
Is AI birthing a new art form, a new medium? "From Cinema To The Noematograph" @kyliu99.bsky.social @nilsgilman.bsky.social @futurologypod.bsky.social
(Plus- Ben Hur)
Stressing the subjective: roughlydaily.com/2025/11/18/t...
(Plus- Ben Hur)
Stressing the subjective: roughlydaily.com/2025/11/18/t...