Lawrence Wilkinson
@lhwilkinson.bsky.social
Serial entrepreneur, turned advisor/investor, mostly to not-for-profit and social ventures
When language fails: "What Is The Ozma Problem, And Why Does It Matter?"
(Plus- the "Light Gate")
Exploring explanation: roughlydaily.com/2025/11/14/s...
(Plus- the "Light Gate")
Exploring explanation: roughlydaily.com/2025/11/14/s...
November 14, 2025 at 4:49 PM
When language fails: "What Is The Ozma Problem, And Why Does It Matter?"
(Plus- the "Light Gate")
Exploring explanation: roughlydaily.com/2025/11/14/s...
(Plus- the "Light Gate")
Exploring explanation: roughlydaily.com/2025/11/14/s...
The end of civilization? A sobering assessment of "The dawn of the post-literate society" from @j-amesmarriott.bsky.social
(Plus- George Grenville)
Buckle up: roughlydaily.com/2025/11/13/w...
(Plus- George Grenville)
Buckle up: roughlydaily.com/2025/11/13/w...
November 13, 2025 at 4:50 PM
The end of civilization? A sobering assessment of "The dawn of the post-literate society" from @j-amesmarriott.bsky.social
(Plus- George Grenville)
Buckle up: roughlydaily.com/2025/11/13/w...
(Plus- George Grenville)
Buckle up: roughlydaily.com/2025/11/13/w...
On inequality in income and wealth: "Homoploutia: Top Labor and Capital Incomes in the United States, 1950–2020" @stone-lis.bsky.social
(Plus- the exploding whale incident)
Evaluating equity: roughlydaily.com/2025/11/12/a...
(Plus- the exploding whale incident)
Evaluating equity: roughlydaily.com/2025/11/12/a...
November 12, 2025 at 5:16 PM
On inequality in income and wealth: "Homoploutia: Top Labor and Capital Incomes in the United States, 1950–2020" @stone-lis.bsky.social
(Plus- the exploding whale incident)
Evaluating equity: roughlydaily.com/2025/11/12/a...
(Plus- the exploding whale incident)
Evaluating equity: roughlydaily.com/2025/11/12/a...
A beautiful new way to enjoy (and learn from) a classic: John Berger's "Ways of Seeing"
Pondering perspective: roughlydaily.com/2025/11/11/s...
Pondering perspective: roughlydaily.com/2025/11/11/s...
November 11, 2025 at 5:22 PM
A beautiful new way to enjoy (and learn from) a classic: John Berger's "Ways of Seeing"
Pondering perspective: roughlydaily.com/2025/11/11/s...
Pondering perspective: roughlydaily.com/2025/11/11/s...
The striking changes underway in the financial sector: “What Wall Street’s obsession with ‘capital solutions’ tells us,” from @semafor.com
(Plus- International Accounting Day)
Back to basics: roughlydaily.com/2025/11/10/r...
(Plus- International Accounting Day)
Back to basics: roughlydaily.com/2025/11/10/r...
November 10, 2025 at 4:53 PM
The striking changes underway in the financial sector: “What Wall Street’s obsession with ‘capital solutions’ tells us,” from @semafor.com
(Plus- International Accounting Day)
Back to basics: roughlydaily.com/2025/11/10/r...
(Plus- International Accounting Day)
Back to basics: roughlydaily.com/2025/11/10/r...
On the challenge of keeping our language-- our words and our use of them-- up to the task of wrestling with our present and our future: Robin Sloan and Quentin Hardy
(Plus- Louie, Louie)
Pondering pondering: roughlydaily.com/2025/11/09/w...
(Plus- Louie, Louie)
Pondering pondering: roughlydaily.com/2025/11/09/w...
November 9, 2025 at 5:17 PM
On the challenge of keeping our language-- our words and our use of them-- up to the task of wrestling with our present and our future: Robin Sloan and Quentin Hardy
(Plus- Louie, Louie)
Pondering pondering: roughlydaily.com/2025/11/09/w...
(Plus- Louie, Louie)
Pondering pondering: roughlydaily.com/2025/11/09/w...
On the foundation for modern geometry and physics: "What Is a Manifold?" @quantamagazine.bsky.social
(plus- John Wallis)
Getting down with geometry: roughlydaily.com/2025/11/08/i...
(plus- John Wallis)
Getting down with geometry: roughlydaily.com/2025/11/08/i...
November 8, 2025 at 5:20 PM
On the foundation for modern geometry and physics: "What Is a Manifold?" @quantamagazine.bsky.social
(plus- John Wallis)
Getting down with geometry: roughlydaily.com/2025/11/08/i...
(plus- John Wallis)
Getting down with geometry: roughlydaily.com/2025/11/08/i...
The stunning interiors of rare musical instruments @charlesbrooks.bsky.social @boingboing.net
(Plus- Sax and Sousa)
Cherishing craftsmanship: roughlydaily.com/2025/11/06/i...
(Plus- Sax and Sousa)
Cherishing craftsmanship: roughlydaily.com/2025/11/06/i...
November 6, 2025 at 3:52 PM
The stunning interiors of rare musical instruments @charlesbrooks.bsky.social @boingboing.net
(Plus- Sax and Sousa)
Cherishing craftsmanship: roughlydaily.com/2025/11/06/i...
(Plus- Sax and Sousa)
Cherishing craftsmanship: roughlydaily.com/2025/11/06/i...
On the conditions of liberty: "What is civil society, and why should we care?" @himself.bsky.social (with @noahpinion.blog.web.brid.gy)
(Plus- Guy Fawkes)
In praise of plurality: roughlydaily.com/2025/11/05/n...
(Plus- Guy Fawkes)
In praise of plurality: roughlydaily.com/2025/11/05/n...
November 5, 2025 at 5:29 PM
On the conditions of liberty: "What is civil society, and why should we care?" @himself.bsky.social (with @noahpinion.blog.web.brid.gy)
(Plus- Guy Fawkes)
In praise of plurality: roughlydaily.com/2025/11/05/n...
(Plus- Guy Fawkes)
In praise of plurality: roughlydaily.com/2025/11/05/n...
For scientists of yore anything—from mermaids to alchemy—was on the table: "How the Occult Gave Birth to Science" @dalequark.bsky.social @nautil.us
(Plus- Rasmus Bartholin)
Thinking about transmutation: roughlydaily.com/2025/11/04/a...
(Plus- Rasmus Bartholin)
Thinking about transmutation: roughlydaily.com/2025/11/04/a...
November 4, 2025 at 4:21 PM
For scientists of yore anything—from mermaids to alchemy—was on the table: "How the Occult Gave Birth to Science" @dalequark.bsky.social @nautil.us
(Plus- Rasmus Bartholin)
Thinking about transmutation: roughlydaily.com/2025/11/04/a...
(Plus- Rasmus Bartholin)
Thinking about transmutation: roughlydaily.com/2025/11/04/a...
On Silicon Valley's search for Lebensraum in the Lone Star State: "The Texan Ideology" @thebaffler.com
(Plus- Stephen F. Austin)
Mess with Texas: roughlydaily.com/2025/11/03/i...
(Plus- Stephen F. Austin)
Mess with Texas: roughlydaily.com/2025/11/03/i...
November 3, 2025 at 4:57 PM
On Silicon Valley's search for Lebensraum in the Lone Star State: "The Texan Ideology" @thebaffler.com
(Plus- Stephen F. Austin)
Mess with Texas: roughlydaily.com/2025/11/03/i...
(Plus- Stephen F. Austin)
Mess with Texas: roughlydaily.com/2025/11/03/i...
"Kind of like the film world’s one intellectual"- the remarkable Walter Murch: "Every Blink" @lrb.co.uk
(Plus- Hal Roach)
Juxtapose: roughlydaily.com/2025/11/02/i...
(Plus- Hal Roach)
Juxtapose: roughlydaily.com/2025/11/02/i...
November 2, 2025 at 4:34 PM
"Kind of like the film world’s one intellectual"- the remarkable Walter Murch: "Every Blink" @lrb.co.uk
(Plus- Hal Roach)
Juxtapose: roughlydaily.com/2025/11/02/i...
(Plus- Hal Roach)
Juxtapose: roughlydaily.com/2025/11/02/i...
Since 1870, 1/5 of the economy transforms every few decades. Now, increasingly, companies are turning into banks; and banks (and others), into casinos. @delong.social @jacobinmagazin.bsky.social @tedgioia.bsky.social @kyla.bsky.social (Plus- Poker)
Just say no: roughlydaily.com/2025/11/01/f...
Just say no: roughlydaily.com/2025/11/01/f...
November 1, 2025 at 3:44 PM
Since 1870, 1/5 of the economy transforms every few decades. Now, increasingly, companies are turning into banks; and banks (and others), into casinos. @delong.social @jacobinmagazin.bsky.social @tedgioia.bsky.social @kyla.bsky.social (Plus- Poker)
Just say no: roughlydaily.com/2025/11/01/f...
Just say no: roughlydaily.com/2025/11/01/f...
Why zippers keep getting better: "The Company That Zips the World | YKK’s Ninety-Year Obsession" @carryology.bsky.social
(Plus- The Haunted Mansion)
Zipping it: roughlydaily.com/2025/10/31/n...
(Plus- The Haunted Mansion)
Zipping it: roughlydaily.com/2025/10/31/n...
October 31, 2025 at 3:29 PM
Why zippers keep getting better: "The Company That Zips the World | YKK’s Ninety-Year Obsession" @carryology.bsky.social
(Plus- The Haunted Mansion)
Zipping it: roughlydaily.com/2025/10/31/n...
(Plus- The Haunted Mansion)
Zipping it: roughlydaily.com/2025/10/31/n...
A telling parable too relevant to the administration of justice—and rife mishandling thereof—in our day: "The Lessons of Due Process in Julius Caesar" @jstordaily.bsky.social
(Plus- Mars invades!)
Recognizing rights: roughlydaily.com/2025/10/30/i...
(Plus- Mars invades!)
Recognizing rights: roughlydaily.com/2025/10/30/i...
October 30, 2025 at 3:35 PM
A telling parable too relevant to the administration of justice—and rife mishandling thereof—in our day: "The Lessons of Due Process in Julius Caesar" @jstordaily.bsky.social
(Plus- Mars invades!)
Recognizing rights: roughlydaily.com/2025/10/30/i...
(Plus- Mars invades!)
Recognizing rights: roughlydaily.com/2025/10/30/i...
Recent findings reveal that even simple pricing algorithms can make things more expensive: "The Game Theory of How Algorithms Can Drive Up Prices" @benbenbrubaker.bsky.social @quantamagazine.bsky.social
(Plus- The Federalist Papers)
Musing on malign mechanisms: roughlydaily.com/2025/10/27/i...
(Plus- The Federalist Papers)
Musing on malign mechanisms: roughlydaily.com/2025/10/27/i...
October 27, 2025 at 4:06 PM
Recent findings reveal that even simple pricing algorithms can make things more expensive: "The Game Theory of How Algorithms Can Drive Up Prices" @benbenbrubaker.bsky.social @quantamagazine.bsky.social
(Plus- The Federalist Papers)
Musing on malign mechanisms: roughlydaily.com/2025/10/27/i...
(Plus- The Federalist Papers)
Musing on malign mechanisms: roughlydaily.com/2025/10/27/i...
Experimenting with sound in 19th-century popular science: "Hooked on Sonics" @publicdomainrev.bsky.social
(Plus- Mahalia Jackson)
Listen: roughlydaily.com/2025/10/26/t...
(Plus- Mahalia Jackson)
Listen: roughlydaily.com/2025/10/26/t...
October 26, 2025 at 4:08 PM
Experimenting with sound in 19th-century popular science: "Hooked on Sonics" @publicdomainrev.bsky.social
(Plus- Mahalia Jackson)
Listen: roughlydaily.com/2025/10/26/t...
(Plus- Mahalia Jackson)
Listen: roughlydaily.com/2025/10/26/t...
On the very long history of deep fakes and misinformation: "Enchanting Imposters" @jstordaily.bsky.social @saraivry.bsky.social
(Plus- The Stones do Ed Sullivan)
Grab for a grain of salt: roughlydaily.com/2025/10/25/t...
(Plus- The Stones do Ed Sullivan)
Grab for a grain of salt: roughlydaily.com/2025/10/25/t...
October 25, 2025 at 3:27 PM
On the very long history of deep fakes and misinformation: "Enchanting Imposters" @jstordaily.bsky.social @saraivry.bsky.social
(Plus- The Stones do Ed Sullivan)
Grab for a grain of salt: roughlydaily.com/2025/10/25/t...
(Plus- The Stones do Ed Sullivan)
Grab for a grain of salt: roughlydaily.com/2025/10/25/t...
In 1984, a prescient Thomas Pynchon considered: "Is It O.K. To Be A Luddite?" @nytimes.com
(Plus- Against the Day)
Hanging onto our humanity: roughlydaily.com/2025/10/24/d...
(Plus- Against the Day)
Hanging onto our humanity: roughlydaily.com/2025/10/24/d...
October 24, 2025 at 4:08 PM
In 1984, a prescient Thomas Pynchon considered: "Is It O.K. To Be A Luddite?" @nytimes.com
(Plus- Against the Day)
Hanging onto our humanity: roughlydaily.com/2025/10/24/d...
(Plus- Against the Day)
Hanging onto our humanity: roughlydaily.com/2025/10/24/d...
What's actually going on with artificial intelligence? What should we be thinking? Doing? "The Majority AI View" @anildash.com (and more from @kevinkelly.bsky.social
(Plus- the Universe's birthday?)
Parsing pumped prognostication: roughlydaily.com/2025/10/23/t...
(Plus- the Universe's birthday?)
Parsing pumped prognostication: roughlydaily.com/2025/10/23/t...
October 23, 2025 at 4:28 PM
What's actually going on with artificial intelligence? What should we be thinking? Doing? "The Majority AI View" @anildash.com (and more from @kevinkelly.bsky.social
(Plus- the Universe's birthday?)
Parsing pumped prognostication: roughlydaily.com/2025/10/23/t...
(Plus- the Universe's birthday?)
Parsing pumped prognostication: roughlydaily.com/2025/10/23/t...
Why do simple rules generate complexity? "‘Entropy Bagels’ and Other Complex Structures Emerge From Simple Rules" from @jordanacep.bsky.social @quantamagazine.bsky.social
(Plus- Soupy Sales)
Untangle: roughlydaily.com/2025/10/22/f...
(Plus- Soupy Sales)
Untangle: roughlydaily.com/2025/10/22/f...
October 22, 2025 at 4:18 PM
Why do simple rules generate complexity? "‘Entropy Bagels’ and Other Complex Structures Emerge From Simple Rules" from @jordanacep.bsky.social @quantamagazine.bsky.social
(Plus- Soupy Sales)
Untangle: roughlydaily.com/2025/10/22/f...
(Plus- Soupy Sales)
Untangle: roughlydaily.com/2025/10/22/f...
What the West should learn from China: "The Great Reckoning" @kaiserkuo.bsky.social (with @pkrugman.bsky.social and @himself.bsky.social)
(Plus- Zhu Yuanzhang)
Rethink: roughlydaily.com/2025/10/21/f...
(Plus- Zhu Yuanzhang)
Rethink: roughlydaily.com/2025/10/21/f...
October 21, 2025 at 4:27 PM
What the West should learn from China: "The Great Reckoning" @kaiserkuo.bsky.social (with @pkrugman.bsky.social and @himself.bsky.social)
(Plus- Zhu Yuanzhang)
Rethink: roughlydaily.com/2025/10/21/f...
(Plus- Zhu Yuanzhang)
Rethink: roughlydaily.com/2025/10/21/f...
A triumph for history and the importance of ideas: "Joel Mokyr's Nobel" @antonhowes.bsky.social
(Plus- Christopher Wren)
Pondering the process of progress: roughlydaily.com/2025/10/20/w...
(Plus- Christopher Wren)
Pondering the process of progress: roughlydaily.com/2025/10/20/w...
October 20, 2025 at 4:23 PM
A triumph for history and the importance of ideas: "Joel Mokyr's Nobel" @antonhowes.bsky.social
(Plus- Christopher Wren)
Pondering the process of progress: roughlydaily.com/2025/10/20/w...
(Plus- Christopher Wren)
Pondering the process of progress: roughlydaily.com/2025/10/20/w...
Reclaiming our humanity: "Walking as Inactivity"
(Plus- Lewis Mumford)
Amble: roughlydaily.com/2025/10/19/w...
(Plus- Lewis Mumford)
Amble: roughlydaily.com/2025/10/19/w...
October 19, 2025 at 3:37 PM
Reclaiming our humanity: "Walking as Inactivity"
(Plus- Lewis Mumford)
Amble: roughlydaily.com/2025/10/19/w...
(Plus- Lewis Mumford)
Amble: roughlydaily.com/2025/10/19/w...
'Humans of New York' transforms Grand Central Into a monumental photo show @humansofny
(Plus- Edwin Way Teale)
See: roughlydaily.com/2025/10/18/p...
(Plus- Edwin Way Teale)
See: roughlydaily.com/2025/10/18/p...
October 18, 2025 at 4:25 PM
'Humans of New York' transforms Grand Central Into a monumental photo show @humansofny
(Plus- Edwin Way Teale)
See: roughlydaily.com/2025/10/18/p...
(Plus- Edwin Way Teale)
See: roughlydaily.com/2025/10/18/p...