History
Today, I'm excited to launch my lifelong passion project, Grand Old Books!! 🚀 There are 1000s of beautiful novels of the past, not in English, locked up in old PDFs, with no physical copies left. We started with Indian texts and brought back 12 books in 6 languages with pictures and annotations. This is, and will always be, completely free. We can't let time wash away history. Please comment to let me know what book you'd like to see added.
Marc Andreessen on the history and definition of the meme: "There are sort of two definitions of meme. Number one: a meme can just be like a funny image that spreads virally. That's its colloquial usage today." "Underneath that, though, is a deeper idea. The term 'meme' was originally actually invented by Richard Dawkins." "The physical transmission of information through living things is the 'gene.' And then the conceptual, intellectual transmission of ideas through people, networks of people, and societies is called the 'meme.'" "He basically said... successful ideas propagate like a gene does. They spread from person to person, and they flourish." "Democracy is a meme. And communism was a meme. Religions are memes. This is kind of this very core idea of basically ideas and concepts traveling through kind of what Carl Jung called the collective unconscious: the sort of complete assembly of minds on planet Earth."
Cover evolution for The Origins of Efficiency: “We explored a wide range of options inspired by examples that @_brianpotter highlights in the book: light bulbs, nails, printing presses, and more,” says @pablodelcan . “Each built on the theme of transformation, showing how processes that were once slow and labor-intensive evolved into modern feats of precision. We wanted to celebrate the history of manufacturing while also showing how far we’ve come. The final cover contrasts the complexity of an Airbus jet engine with the raw mechanical rhythm of a 19th-century canning factory. The juxtaposition emphasizes the progression of human ingenuity.” https:// press.stripe.com/origins-of-eff iciency …
“One conversation centered on the ever accelerating progress of technology and changes in the mode of human life, which gives the appearance of approaching some essential singularity in the history of the race beyond which human affairs, as we know them, could not continue.” 1958, Obituary for John von Neumann by Stanislaw Ulam
Yahoo! Scout - Yahoo's first official return to search since 2009 https://seroundtable.com/yahoo-scout-408……
