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		<title>Businesspeople weren’t going to use the Newton unless it included a phone</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 30 May 2026 11:22:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Larry Tesler, who was leading Apple’s Newton group, hired an anthropologist named Eleanor Wynn, David Epstein explains (in Inside the Box), to test the theory behind their business plan: Wynn reported back that business&#173;people weren’t going to use the Newton unless it included a phone. But adding a phone at that point (as General Magic [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>For every person who needs more freedom, there are ten people who need more help in finding their way</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 26 May 2026 11:47:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Bell Labs is often remembered as the epitome of unfettered exploration, David Epstein explains (in Inside the Box), but that framing misses a crucial point: Eric Gilliam, who studies and writes about innovation history, coined the beautiful phrase “long leash, narrow fence” to describe the ethos at Bell Labs in its heyday. New researchers were [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>The costs only explode once a film moves into production</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 20 May 2026 11:00:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[After Toy Story fulfilled Ed Catmull’s twenty-year dream, David Epstein explains (in Inside the Box), he turned his attention to creating a place that could do it repeatedly: The “Three Pitches Rule” required directors to pitch not one but three film ideas, so that they wouldn’t get stuck on one and fixate too early. Pixar [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>The “think slow” part of Pixar planning started before Pixar even existed.</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 18 May 2026 11:47:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The “think slow” part of Pixar planning, David Epstein explains (in Inside the Box), started before Pixar even existed: Catmull was surprised then, in 1980, when a Lucasfilm competitor spent $10 million on a Cray-1 super&#173;computer. He and his colleagues wondered if they should chase that competitor, so they sat down and made specific estimates [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Even literal Moon shots aren’t “moonshots”</title>
		<link>https://www.isegoria.net/2026/05/even-literal-moon-shots-arent-moonshots/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 16 May 2026 11:24:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ed Catmull, the cofounder and longtime president of Pixar, was watching the General Magic documentary with David Epstein when he headed to the bookshelf, Epstein explains (in Inside the Box): When Catmull returns from the shelf, he’s holding a laptop-size book with giant red letters splashed across the cover: By Space Ship to the Moon, [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>He called it the Pocket Crystal</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 10 May 2026 10:28:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[As I mentioned recently, I quite enjoyed David Epstein’s The Sports Gene and Range, so I went ahead and got Inside the Box the day it came out. He opens with the famous story of Dmitri Mendeleev seeing the periodic table in a dream and contrasts that myth with the reality that Mendeleev had a [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Education technology is widely used, but growth in achievement has not followed</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 02 May 2026 11:18:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Do online math programs work? In August 2022, three researchers at Khan Academy, a popular math practice website, published the results of a massive, 99-district study of students. It showed an effect size of 0.26 standard deviations (SD) — equivalent to several months of additional schooling — for students who used the program as recommended. [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Political research is amazingly underrated as a force which can change history</title>
		<link>https://www.isegoria.net/2026/04/political-research-is-amazingly-underrated-as-a-force-which-can-change-history/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 25 Apr 2026 11:37:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A weird fact about the world, Dominic Cummings notes, is that political research is amazingly underrated as a force which can change history: Put another billion or ten into a normal company, little really changes in terms of world history. But just thousands wisely deployed on political research can change history. I’ve explained this at [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Ignoffo found no evidence supporting the idea that Sarah Winchester communed with spirits</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Apr 2026 11:27:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The lore that Sarah Winchester built her mansion to house ghosts killed by Winchester rifles is likely just gossip and marketing, Drew Breunig says, citing a piece that summarizes Captive of the Labyrinth: Ignoffo found no evidence supporting the idea that Sarah Winchester communed with spirits. She believes that what drove Sarah Winchester to build [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>They stopped asking Bill to fill out the form</title>
		<link>https://www.isegoria.net/2026/04/they-stopped-asking-bill-to-fill-out-the-form/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Apr 2026 11:11:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I somehow missed Andy Hertzfeld’s –2,000 Lines Of Code back in the day: In early 1982, the Lisa software team was trying to buckle down for the big push to ship the software within the next six months. Some of the managers decided that it would be a good idea to track the progress of [&#8230;]]]></description>
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