- Green Castration: How TikTok and Dubai Devoured Global Pistachio Reserves (and Severed the Mafia’s Phallus)It all started when I bumped into a box of Dubai-style Cannoli in a discount store, which was synonymous with a death sentence for tradition. I stood there, looking at the foil packaging, and understood that this isn’t just a dessert. It is a virus. Today, “Dubai green” infects everything. It is a pandemic that spares no… Read more: Green Castration: How TikTok and Dubai Devoured Global Pistachio Reserves (and Severed the Mafia’s Phallus)
- Anomaly in the Matrix: What a steel trash can teaches us about durability engineering (and ourselves)1. Starting Point: Howard and the Vacuum Tube I recently finished reading Stephen King’s Fairy Tale. One of the characters, Howard Bowditch, loved everything old. In a world of massive, flat 8K screens, he stuck with his Zenith TV with “rabbit ears” antennas. Instead of replacing the TV with a new one, he simply went… Read more: Anomaly in the Matrix: What a steel trash can teaches us about durability engineering (and ourselves)