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Are We Forgetting the Magic of Physical Books?

9 Jul 2026 4 minute read 1 comment Bhatt_G

As you all know that Jeff Bezos is the owner of Amazon. When he started his online business, it was also an online bookstore, and in that, he used to sell only books to people. But now Amazon has started selling everything, and in this way, many such...

1991, April: eyeglass intrigue during spring break (part two)

3 Jul 2026 5 minute read 0 comments jasonmcgathey

Rolling up to the DMV cabin on the far side of Mansfield, I’m already aware that there’s a nasty old crone working here, known far and wide as a real ball buster. She has an impeccable reputation for failing pretty much everyone, for any reason at a...

1991, April: eyeglass intrigue during spring break (part one)

3 Jul 2026 6 minute read 0 comments jasonmcgathey

A mindset you employ as a kid but learn, through trial and error, to completely dispense with in your adult years is knowing there is absolutely no chance of something working out favorably, but crouching in a silent paralysis as events unfold...

The mathematics of self-deception: why the economy of SPIEF-2026 lives on the credit of the future

11 Jun 2026 9 minute read 1 comment Ship Shard

Publication in Russian on the Zen bloghttps://dzen.ru/a/aiRpZfM-oDHeT-7m SPIEF 2026 and the trap of the "Right Path": a lesson from Dune for the Russian economy. A stimulus-driven economy: how long will this spurt last? At the St. Petersburg Internat...

The Economics of Fear: How military spending is eating up a country's life

7 Jun 2026 13 minute read 0 comments Ship Shard

Publication in Russian on the Zen bloghttps://dzen.ru/a/ah6-TD3UbHoYV6Vd The price of "greatness": how military spending robs a country of its future. Fifty trillion dollars and the lost future of the country. This story is about how the state has ea...

50 trillion: the price of militarization and the country's missed opportunities

7 Jun 2026 5 minute read 0 comments Ship Shard

Zen blog post in Russianhttps://dzen.ru/a/ah9HqchSU3_ufUWt The country that was eaten by zeros: the story of a missed future. The Tale of the Eaten Future: A Grotesque tale of Economics and Power. Here is an attempt to translate the dry figures of ma...

My latest kooky plot: experiments with an old school typewriter

6 Jun 2026 5 minute read 0 comments jasonmcgathey

  As you may have surmised from the title, recently I have begun messing around with a good ol’ fashioned typewriter. This thing has been sitting here in my office for years - a used offering from my parents, who could no longer fathom any...

An investigation into who actually lives on an average salary

5 Jun 2026 6 minute read 0 comments Ship Shard

Zen blog post in Russianhttps://dzen.ru/a/agCHFxUVayfxwHAD Thermometer for the country: why people don't believe salaries from the news. It's a creepy story because it's about each of us. Prepared for those who prefer the truth in their pocket to the...

How Modern English came to us.

30 May 2026 5 minute read 3 comments rah

English belongs to the Germanic arm of the Indo-European family of languages that can roughly be defined as Slavic / Slavonic (central and East European, reaching down into the northern parts of the Balkans -eg Serbia, Monetnegro), Romantic (Mediterr...

A stable and stable system of government in the country

26 May 2026 2 minute read 11 comments Ship Shard

Zen blog post in Russianhttps://dzen.ru/a/ady5D30JDDjEBGlk A dystopia on the theme of a change of power. The main question has long been "who will win". Is there even room for another outcome? Because if it doesn't exist, it's no longer politics. Thi...