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Formula 1 is undergoing a massive rules reset in 2026. Here is a brief history of how we got here, a technical breakdown of the new rules, and why they might ruin the racing we love.
As software engineers, we are taught to iterate, optimize, and scale. But Peter Thiel’s Zero to One argues that true progress doesn't come from a 10% improvement—it comes from creating something entirely new.
Alexandre Dumas wrote the greatest revenge novel in the history of literature. He also wrote, buried inside it, the most honest critique of revenge as a life philosophy that fiction has produced. The Count of Monte Cristo is not a celebration of what Edmond Dantès becomes. It is a reckoning with it.
La La Land is one of the most visually beautiful films of the last decade. It is also, on honest inspection, a film about two people who are so consumed by their own ambitions that their relationship was always going to be a casualty of those ambitions. The tragedy is not that they could not be together. It is that neither of them genuinely tried.
I was a kid obsessed with ships. Not just Titanic. All of them. Britannic, Lusitania, Olympic. I built entire worlds in my head from grainy photographs and library books. Then James Cameron made a film that put all of it on screen, and added a love story so devastating that the ocean itself felt like it was grieving. I have never fully recovered.
Parasite is a very good film. It is also the beneficiary of one of the most inflated critical reputations in recent Oscar history, propped up partly by the specific way Western audiences respond to foreign language cinema. Let us have the honest conversation nobody wants to have.
I will admit upfront that I am biased. I have loved statistics since high school, long before I understood what it was actually for. But the older I get, the more I am convinced that a working understanding of statistics is the closest thing to a superpower that formal education offers.
Arthur Conan Doyle created Sherlock Holmes in 1887, tried to kill him in 1893, was forced by public outcry to bring him back, and spent the rest of his life in an ambivalent relationship with a character he had made more famous than himself. Holmes is my favourite fictional detective. He is, by a considerable distance, the most influential fictional character in the history of literature. This is the case for why.
Paulo Coelho's The Alchemist has sold over 65 million copies, been translated into 80 languages, and is regularly described as a life-changing work of spiritual literature. It is also, on honest inspection, a self-help book wearing a shepherd boy's cloak. The disguise is thinner than people admit.