Bradd Libby

I help companies & other organizations understand the impacts that rapid changes in technology, the climate, economics & society might have on them & the world

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My new book

The Pattern of Progress: How Radically Cheaper, Easier, Faster, Better Technologies and Ideas Rapidly Change the World

is now available in printed form on Amazon

https://t.co/YbnSeSJQil

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@kflamlie When will you be in Oslo? Where will you be? Please DM me some details. Thanks!

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@hrswatigupta That’s five words

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@FHayek23 @Cooper866348 Salted water freezes at a temperature lower than fresh water. So you can make salted water to be very cold and it will still be liquid

You put fresh water into the metal container and then put the container into a bath of very cold, salted water. The fresh water will freeze fast

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The low-spiciness TAM Jalapeño-1 pepper turned Mexican salsa into a beloved American staple over just a couple of decades by enabling "base plus" manufacturing or "late-stage differentiation"

The same idea is used in a wide variety of products

https://t.co/0TofQirrXd

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@hillaryvipond Please fell free to share any details about this computational economic history workshop, when and where it will be, etc. Thank you!

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@AConcernedPare2 More Than the Sun and Stars, Adam Dorr

https://t.co/HkxmCvxU7E

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@FrappNasty @TristinHopper Read about it in my book! Available at Amazon and Apple Books

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@snuppydogg If you think that’s bad, you should try R. E. Danforth’s Explosive Burning Fluid

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@robert_yaman This should not be cause for celebration

We can make egg proteins by precision fermentation. No chickens involved

In-ovo egg sexing is a ‘Small Brain’ solution. It makes one part of the problem less bad

PF is a ‘Big Brain’ solution - it “dissolves” the problem entirely

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@readswithravi If you enjoy learning about technology, history, entrepreneurship and innovation, please consider finding my book ‘The Pattern of Progress’ at Amazon or Apple Books. Thanks!

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@Andercot @reindsummit @aphysicist If you need a speaker, I’m happy to talk about my book ‘The Pattern of Progress’ 🤗

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@thisischristina “germinal” 😙👌

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@claudeai A globe of all of the locations mentioned in Mark Kurlansky’s 2002 book ‘Salt: A World History’

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Using Claude’s Fable 5 and Google’s NotebookLM to visualize all of the locations mentioned in Mark Kurlansky’s 2002 book ‘Salt: A World History’ and to see the key relations to food, energy, and mining

https://t.co/9qSBDMWfC8

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@jameszol @elonmusk @grok Everything Grok said, plus Ian M. Banks’ entire ‘Culture’ series

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@erinbraid Comprehensive homeowners insurance was first legalized in New York State in 1949 and reached $1 billion in premiums in 1962, just thirteen years later

See Bench Ansfield, ‘Born in Flames: The Business of Arson and the Remaking of the American City’ (2025)

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@Nature It’s not scientific research - just something I did for fun - but I made a globe of every location important to the history of salt that Mark Kurlansky mentioned in his 2002 book ‘Salt: A World History’

https://t.co/2B9tkOSpzc

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Using Claude’s Fable 5 and Google’s NotebookLM to visualize all of the locations mentioned in Mark Kurlansky’s 2002 book ‘Salt: A World History’ and to see the key relations to food, energy, and mining

https://t.co/9qSBDMWfC8

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Prompted Claude Fable twice before hitting my usage limit 😅

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@anderssandberg It’s not really a typo. It is saying r(T,h) < r_min and, oh just to remind you, r(T,h) = this 0.622… expression

The real typo is writing e_8 (twice!) instead of e_s simply because the scanned copy was blurry and they could not see the difference between ‘8’ and ‘s’

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In my book ‘The Pattern of Progress’ I talked about how the rise of trucks ended the supply of donkey milk

Now, Nestle is looking to use precision fermentation to bring donkey milk proteins back to market

https://t.co/YRVOVJO3wV