Tom of Letters
Tom HydeOptimism made beautiful. Weekly essays on science, technology, literature, and philosophy. Resisting doomerism with every word.
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No, Obviously Not—The Most Valuable Company in the History of Business Is Not the Dutch East India Company
The yacht of the VOC-Chamber of Rotterdam, 1790, Jacob van Strij
I read an incredible fact today. The most valuable company in the history of business was founded in the past, more than 400 years ago, in the age of both Shakespeare and Mil...
How to Romance the Moon: Colonise It
Selene, 1880, Albert Aublet
“There is a reason, after all, that some people wish to colonize the moon, and others dance before it as an ancient friend.”
— James Baldwin, No Name on the Street
SpaceX just crashed a rocket into the M...
The Dismal Critic
“And the social science [...] which finds the secret of this universe in “supply and demand,” [...] what we might call, by way of eminence, the dismal science.”
— Thomas Carlyle
Ad Hominen is a fallacy I tend to avoid. It is reason...
Air Conditioning? I Think You Mean “The Human Condition”
The Ice Harvest, Clarence Gagnon, 1935
It is hot in Europe at the moment. Really hot. Hot enough for people from traditionally hot places to agree that Europe is, in fact, really hot. Hot enough for me who spent two years working in the Au...
The Hierarchy Fall
The Fall of Icarus, Andrew McCarthy, 2025
“Is not a man’s walking, in truth, always that: ‘a succession of falls’?”
— Thomas Carlyle
The hierarchy rule, writes David Deutsch, is false. Small things can influence large things. Units...
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