Boring technology, cheap solar, corner shops and the man who tuned your dishwasher. This week’s six links.
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NO. 112 · SUNDAY 21 SEPTEMBER 2026
Worth your Sunday

Hello John,
This week’s pile leans practical: a decade-old essay that still settles arguments, a chart that should embarrass every forecaster, and a podcast episode I have already sent to three people. Pour something warm and take your time.
— Jonas, editor at My Company

An open book
THE LONG VIEW
The old argument still holds: every shiny new tool spends some of a team’s limited appetite for surprises. A calm re-read for anyone picking a stack this autumn.

A line chart rising to the right
FIELD NOTES QUARTERLY
Twenty years of forecasts plotted against what actually happened. The gap is the story, and the charts are worth the click alone.

A row of city buildings under a pale sun
STREETS & SQUARES
Small grocers are reopening on streets that lost them. The reasons have less to do with nostalgia than with delivery fees.

A single leaf with its veins
UNDERGROWTH
A botanist on the internal clocks of leaves, and what a sunflower can teach a team that keeps missing its deadlines.

A sound wave
THE LISTENING ROOM
Someone decided what your dishwasher says when it finishes. A 38-minute episode we listened to twice.

A folded map with a dotted route and a pin
MARGINALIA
Six hand-drawn maps, from Paris in 1739 to Lagos last year, and the decisions each one made possible.
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