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Silicon is just sand. (opens the original)
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Silicon is just sand.Pick it up on a beach and it means nothing. It is everywhere. It is weightless. Children will build castles with it and abandon them before the tide comes in.But take that same sand and apply enough human intelligence, craft, and sustained effort to it, and it becomes a microchip. A processor. Perhaps the engine inside the device you are reading these words on right now. A sliver of material worth more than its weight in gold.The sand itself did not change magically. The hum
What's in a name? (opens the original)
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Ferrari means blacksmith.Schmidt does too. So does Kovács in Hungary, Kuznetsov in Russia, and Herrero in Spain.The Ummah did the same thing. Al-Haddad in Arabic, Demirci in Turkish and Lohar across the subcontinent. That’s the same smith, over and over, in every language that needed iron.Among the Mande of West Africa he was called the Numu. Born to the forge and to the secrets of iron, his craft passed down a bloodline that could not choose otherwise.The man who worked in iron was Smith for th
What Should I Write? (opens the original)
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It’s my wedding anniversary today. Ten years ago today I got married, and as my wedding gift, my wife gave me a pen.It was engraved along the barrel with my name, and engraved on the pen case is a line attributed to Abu Bakr (ra). “Knowledge is the life of the mind.”<a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!2BTI!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fd275282c-21ac-45cc-af72-5
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