edward: concepts Concepts

Phoebe Waller-Bridge — 8 books
first published 3 Apr 2019 added 27 Oct 2021

English actress and writer

person

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Bearpit roundabout — 1 books
first published 1 Apr 2019 added 31 Oct 2023

roundabout and urban space in Bristol, UK

post-quantum cryptography — 3 books
first published 19 Mar 2019 added 13 Oct 2024

ultra-processed food — 11 books
first published 7 Mar 2019 added 23 Sep 2023

food products that have undergone extensive processing and contain artificial ingredients

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Simple Sabotage Field Manual — 4 books
first published 1 Feb 2019 added 26 May 2024

sabotage book published by OSS in 1944 (at the end of WWII) and used later by CIA, united States intelligence services, compiling technics used by anarchists and communists against nazis.

forced technology transfer — 9 books
first published 1 Feb 2019 added 15 Nov 2025

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electronic shelf labels (ESLs) — 3 books
first published 28 Jan 2019 added 3 Oct 2023

digital systems used in retail for displaying product pricing on shelves

March for Our Lives — 16 books
first published 2019 added 5 Oct 2024

2018 and 2022 student-led demonstration in Washington, DC

+10

non-fungible token — 28 books
first published 23 Dec 2018 added 29 Dec 2021

non-interchangeable unit of data stored on a blockchain, a form of digital ledger, that can be sold and traded

cryptocurrency

+22

generative AI — 43 books
first published 16 Nov 2018 added 12 Jul 2024 generative artificial intelligence

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QAnon — 84 books
first published 2 Nov 2018 added 18 Oct 2020

a disproven conspiracy theory alleging that a secret cabal of Satan-worshipping paedophiles is plotting against former U.S. President Donald Trump

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Elaine Herzberg — 10 books
first published 2 Nov 2018 added 7 May 2023

the first pedestrian to be killed by a self-driving car, in Tempe, Arizona, in 2018

person

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AlphaFold — 20 books
first published 2 Nov 2018 added 11 Dec 2025

software by DeepMind

generative artificial intelligence

+14

Not all heroes wear capes — 4 books
first published 15 Oct 2018 added 20 Oct 2024

Mastodon — 8 books
first published 10 Sep 2018 added 31 Jan 2024

free and open-source, self-hosted, and federated social network service

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NSO Group — 17 books
first published 3 Sep 2018 added 8 Aug 2023

an Israeli technology firm known for its Pegasus spyware used to surveil smartphones

+11

supply-chain attack — 9 books
first published 3 Sep 2018 added 28 May 2022

a cyber-attack that targets vulnerabilities in the supply chain of a product or system

+3

stablecoin — 22 books
first published 16 Jul 2018 added 11 Oct 2023

a type of cryptocurrency designed to have a stable value by being pegged to a reserve asset

climate change

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deepfake — 62 books
first published 11 Jul 2018 added 3 Oct 2023

a synthetic media in which a person's likeness is altered using artificial intelligence

generative artificial intelligence

+56

crisis actor — 25 books
first published 11 Jul 2018 added 16 Aug 2023

a conspiracy theory term for a person alleged to portray a victim in staged emergencies

politics

+19

stop buying avocado toast — 6 books
first published 25 Jun 2018 added 23 Mar 2022

a phrase used to criticise young people for poor financial choices, often viewed as oversimplification

Timnit Gebru — 35 books
first published 1 Jun 2018 added 27 Mar 2025

computer scientist, specialising in AI ethics

generative artificial intelligence person

+29

rage to conclude — 2 books
first published 14 May 2018 added 14 Dec 2023

Model rust — 1 books
first published 14 May 2018 added 14 Dec 2023

Mary Lou Jepsen — 3 books
first published 23 Apr 2018 added 8 Jan 2018

technical executive and inventor in the fields of display, imaging, and computer hardware. Her contributions have had worldwide adoption in head-mounted display, HDTV, laptop computers, and projector products

person

sanewashing — 3 books
first published 23 Apr 2018 added 6 Sep 2025

act of minimizing the perceived radical aspects of a person or idea in order to make them appear more acceptable to a wider audience

David Dao — 5 books
first published 14 Apr 2018 added 20 Jun 2024 person

Silicon Valley mindset — 7 books
first published 8 Apr 2018 added 11 Jan 2026

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Sackler family — 24 books
first published 2 Apr 2018 added 28 Dec 2023

American billionaire family

opioid epidemic

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Southville — 2 books
first published 29 Mar 2018 added 6 Oct 2024

Occupy Mars — 9 books
first published 20 Mar 2018 added 25 Oct 2025

Mars mission envisioned by SpaceX

space

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Bellingcat — 32 books
first published 15 Mar 2018 added 2 Nov 2021

an independent online investigative journalism website

+26

Peter Gregory — 2 books
first published 13 Mar 2018 added 13 Feb 2022

a fictional venture capitalist character in the television series Silicon Valley

fictional character

Jian Yang — 1 books
first published 13 Mar 2018 added 14 May 2023

a fictional character from the television series Silicon Valley, an entrepreneur from China

person

plant based meat — 20 books
first published 20 Feb 2018 added 21 Oct 2022

a food product made from plant ingredients designed to replicate the taste and texture of animal meat

+14

Adam Neumann (WeWork) — 16 books
first published 15 Feb 2018 added 17 Jun 2021

an Israeli-American billionaire businessman, co-founder of WeWork

person

+10

Robinhood: mobile stock trading app — 27 books
first published 13 Feb 2018 added 11 Feb 2022

a financial services company that offers commission-free stock and cryptocurrency trading via a mobile app

finance

+21

replication crisis — 31 books
first published 12 Feb 2018 added 19 May 2017

a crisis in some scientific disciplines where published results are difficult or impossible to replicate

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Parker Conrad — 6 books
first published 6 Feb 2018 added 23 Jun 2022

co-founder of Zenefits, a software-as-a-service company for human resources

person

Estimating the Reproducibility of Psychological Science — 15 books
first published 6 Feb 2018

a 2015 paper that highlighted the replication crisis in psychology by attempting to replicate 100 studies

+9

AI guardrails — 10 books
first published 15 Jan 2018 added 4 Mar 2024 generative artificial intelligence

+4

ByteDance — 41 books
first published 15 Jan 2018 added 12 Oct 2023

a Chinese tech company, known for creating the social media app TikTok

+35

Russian election interference — 21 books
first published 5 Jan 2018 added 16 Aug 2023

efforts by Russian state actors to influence elections in other countries, notably the United States

politics

+15

peak TV — 10 books
first published 21 Nov 2017 added 15 Apr 2023

the idea that the number of scripted television shows has reached unsustainable levels

+4

Housing First — 10 books
first published 9 Oct 2017 added 3 Jul 2022

a policy that offers permanent housing as quickly as possible to homeless people, and other supportive services afterward

+4

Greyball — 18 books
first published 9 Oct 2017 added 23 Jun 2022

a software tool developed by Uber to identify and deny service to certain users

+12

Comet Ping Pong — 16 books
first published 2 Oct 2017 added 5 Oct 2023

a pizzeria in Washington D.C., subject of a false conspiracy theory known as 'Pizzagate'

+10

Zenefits — 15 books
first published 30 Sep 2017 added 23 Jun 2022

a software-as-a-service company for human resources

+9

Nomadland — 11 books
first published 18 Sep 2017 added 5 Jun 2022

a 2020 film and book about older Americans who live as modern-day nomads

+5

Jessica Bruder — 13 books
first published 18 Sep 2017 added 5 Jun 2022

journalist and author of 'Nomadland,' a book about modern-day nomads in America

person

+7

customer journey mapping — 3 books
first published 4 Sep 2017 added 10 Aug 2024

Sweet Equity — 2 books
first published 15 Jun 2017 added 7 Sep 2025

Rainbow Mansion — 2 books
first published 14 Jun 2017 added 31 May 2023

a co-living space in Silicon Valley known for its community of tech entrepreneurs and professionals

Ende Gelände — 2 books
first published 12 Jun 2017 added 22 Feb 2025

jobs below the API — 2 books
first published 29 May 2017 added 17 Aug 2023

roles where people have to do what the machine tells them instead of programming the machine

Dubai on the Hudson — 1 books
first published 19 May 2017 added 27 Aug 2024

Jeff Seder — 2 books
first published 8 May 2017 added 12 Oct 2022

CEO of EQB, known for applying data analytics to the selection of racehorses

person

The Brussels Effect — 5 books
first published 7 May 2017 added 23 Sep 2023

the phenomenon where European Union regulations become the global standard due to market size

Stop de Kindermoord — 7 books
first published 3 Apr 2017 added 24 Sep 2023

a Dutch activist movement that pushed for safer road conditions, notably for children

New Urbanism

+1

Sidewalk Labs — 20 books
first published 3 Apr 2017 added 29 Sep 2022

an Alphabet subsidiary focused on urban innovation, particularly smart cities

+14

Erlich Bachman — 5 books
first published 31 Mar 2017 added 13 Feb 2022

a fictional character in the television series Silicon Valley, often seen as comedic relief

fictional character

hustle culture — 17 books
first published 31 Mar 2017 added 30 Apr 2021

a societal trend glorifying relentless work and entrepreneurial spirit at the expense of work-life balance

+11

super pumped — 18 books
first published 31 Mar 2017 added 18 Oct 2020

a colloquial term for extreme enthusiasm, also the title of a book about Uber

+12

Susan Fowler — 26 books
first published 31 Mar 2017 added 23 Jun 2022

Susan Fowler is known for her blog post that exposed systemic sexual harassment at Uber

person

+20

rent gap — 9 books
first published 7 Mar 2017 added 9 Aug 2023

theory that capital flows to the rate of highest return, and return is highest after a city has been economically drained and primed for gentrification

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Amazon Picking Challenge — 4 books
first published 28 Feb 2017 added 16 Apr 2021

a competition by Amazon to advance robotic manipulation technology for supply chain automation

Blitzscaling — 24 books
first published 14 Feb 2017 added 23 Jun 2022

a strategy for rapid business growth at the risk of operational scalability

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Navinder Sarao — 5 books
first published 14 Feb 2017 added 22 Nov 2022

a British trader convicted of market manipulation through 'spoofing,' contributing to the 2010 Flash Crash.

evil maid attack — 3 books
first published 14 Feb 2017 added 22 Feb 2022

a security attack where an adversary gains physical access to an unattended device to compromise it

Valeant Pharmaceuticals — 13 books
first published 7 Feb 2017 added 8 Nov 2023

multinational specialty drugs company based in Laval, Quebec, Canada

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Girl Boss — 6 books
first published 6 Dec 2016 added 17 Aug 2023

a term popularised to describe ambitious young women, also a Netflix series and book

Didi Chuxing — 34 books
first published 30 Nov 2016 added 11 Sep 2022

a Chinese ride-sharing company, similar to Uber

+28

Bandra-Worli Sea Link — 2 books
first published 8 Nov 2016 added 7 May 2023

a cable-stayed bridge that links Bandra and Worli in Mumbai, India

mega-constellation — 2 books
first published 5 Nov 2016 added 29 Nov 2023

persistent metabolic adaptation — 3 books
first published 18 Oct 2016 added 23 Sep 2023

the phenomenon where metabolic rate remains low after significant weight loss

time-restricted eating — 8 books
first published 18 Oct 2016 added 27 Feb 2024

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Bottomless brunch — 4 books
first published 3 Oct 2016 added 9 Aug 2023

a dining option where patrons pay a fixed price for unlimited food or drink within a set time

Bolivian navy — 2 books
first published 21 Sep 2016 added 28 Oct 2023

the naval force of landlocked Bolivia, primarily active on inland lakes and rivers

cost of living crisis — 19 books
first published 20 Sep 2016 added 21 Feb 2026

situation where prices of essentials rise faster than wages

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electronic logging device — 3 books
first published 5 Sep 2016 added 16 Aug 2023

a hardware device used in commercial vehicles to automatically log driving hours

Cambridge Analytica — 149 books
first published 5 Sep 2016 added 13 Jul 2022

a British political consulting firm involved in data mining and analysis for electoral processes

politics

+143

Ben McKenzie — 2 books
first published 11 Jul 2016 added 5 Aug 2023

an American actor known for his roles in 'The O.C.' and 'Gotham'

person

AlphaGo — 116 books
first published 27 Jun 2016 added 3 Mar 2023

an artificial intelligence developed by Google's DeepMind to play the board game Go

generative artificial intelligence

+110

Geneva Freeport — 4 books
first published 17 Jun 2016 added 17 Oct 2024

large storage facility

FPV drone — 1 books
first published 6 Jun 2016 added 5 Nov 2023

an FPV (First-Person View) drone is equipped with cameras, transmitting live video to goggles or a screen, giving the pilot a drone's-eye view, often used in racing and aerial filming

Paris climate accords — 47 books
first published 23 May 2016 added 27 Oct 2021

an international agreement aimed at mitigating climate change by limiting global warming

+41

robotic process automation — 16 books
first published 23 May 2016 added 19 Apr 2021

the use of software robots to automate highly repetitive and routine tasks

+10

Reflections on Trusting Trust — 7 books
first published 12 May 2016 added 24 Feb 2022

a lecture by Ken Thompson that discusses the risks in trusting the software and tools one uses, and demonstrates a compiler backdoor.

+1

digital sovereignty — 6 books
first published 18 Apr 2016 added 23 Nov 2023

reproducible builds — 7 books
first published 15 Apr 2016 added 28 May 2022

a software development practice where the compilation process is deterministic

+1

multi-armed bandit — 10 books
first published 4 Apr 2016 added 15 Feb 2022

a problem in which a fixed limited set of resources must be allocated between competing (alternative) choices in a way that maximizes their expected gain, when each choice's properties are only partially known at the time of allocation, and may become better understood as time passes or by allocating resources to the choice