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With almost no one else would I take this "literal miracle" language literally, but I have a lot of faith in Charlie Wood.

"You can teach a physicist finance but you cannot teach a finance person physics." Feeling grateful to the Google News algorithm for finding me this recent interview with Jim Simons, Simons Foundation. youtube.com/watch?v=QUTaQv…

For weeks now I've been quizzing my friends: Does it take more information to communicate the results of flipping a loaded coin or a fair coin? Glad to have had a chance to learn the answer while reporting this piece.

I chatted with Richard Rusczyk of AoPS (Art of Problem Solving) earlier this year and since then, I'm glad to see they've launched Beast 1, which my second-grade son loves. I also enjoyed this conversation between Richard and Erica Klarreich for Quanta Magazine.

Kevin Hartnett (Kevin Hartnett) digs into the heart of Claude Shannon's theory of information from his epochal 1948 paper, "A Mathematical Theory of Communication." Click for the article, plus more from Nautilus and Quanta Magazine. bit.ly/3eRu7d6

Touching collab between Patrick McKenzie and his dad in this week's edition of BAM. bam.kalzumeus.com/archive/why-is…

Legacy newspapers are experimenting with new revenue models. Today on the Stripe Newsroom we take a look at some of the most promising approaches including tipping (The News Movement) and micropayments (Axate). stripe.com/newsroom/stori…

I enjoyed talking with Jeff (Gutenberg Parenthesis) Jarvis for this piece. He makes the point that newspapers need to expand the possibilities for consumer revenue sources and reduce the friction surrounding them.

An amazing discovery wrapped in great story that exemplifies how new knowledge lives (or almost dies) in mathematics. One of my favorite stories I've reported for Quanta Magazine.

Lots of tech optimizations shaping the trucking industry today. We take a look in a new piece on the Stripe Newsroom, with insights from Emily GlassbergSands, head of data science at Stripe. stripe.com/newsroom/stori…

Today on the Stripe Newsroom we look at how dwell is thriving with an innovative approach to digital subscriptions and brand extensions...including becoming a homebuilder itself. With quotes from Zach Klein. stripe.com/newsroom/stori…

The circular economy turns one industry (or person's) trash into another's treasure. Fantastic piece this morning on Stripe Newsroom featuring comments from World Economic Forum, BiaSol Foods, RÆBURN, Urban Outfitters, and more. stripe.com/newsroom/stori…

If you’d like to read more about card testing specifically, see stripe.com/newsroom/news/… It has some recent figures about the scale of the problem and some success in fighting it.

Quanta Books will publish its first book in Spring 2026. Kevin Hartnett’s THE PROOF IN THE CODE is the definitive account of the birth and rise of Lean, a computer program developed by Microsoft that is transforming the enterprise of mathematics and ushering in a new era.

I'm excited to share that my book, "The Proof in the Code," will be the first title released by Quanta Books, a new imprint from fsg_books and Simons Foundation. It's the story of how Lean is transforming math research. Coming Spring 2026.

My latest story for Quanta Magazine: a faster algorithm for minimizing polynomials quantamagazine.org/three-hundred-…

Linear for Agents. Now ready to deploy. linear.app/agents

It shows. From Karri Saarinen "I believe that building companies is a kind of craft. You’re creating something one of a kind...And for most founders, it will be the only company you’ll ever build. That makes how you build just as important as what you build."