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- 6.17 — Cursor Compile, Recreational Wikipedia, the Best Meeting Parks, and Robotics Jobs I Want in Another Life
Mott took over Early Days while Camille Ricketts (@camillericketts) and Brie Wolfson (@zebriez) were on vacation — Cursor Compile chalk talks (Paul Ford, Linus Lee), the Picasso bull lithographs Turbopuffer's Simon invokes, a coffee-walk parks ranking, and a robotics jobs wish list.
Week of Jun 21, 2026
- Raspberry Pi: A Foundation Model in Your Pocket
A deep profile of Raspberry Pi founder Eben Upton, framing the company — whose credit-card-sized computers are the third most popular in history after the PC and Mac — as quietly ahead of the AI hardware moment Silicon Valley is now chasing.
Week of May 31, 2026
- Taste in Math
A narrative piece on the mathematician Évariste Galois, who died in a duel at 20 after writing a frantic letter outlining ideas that would take mathematicians 150 years to fully untangle — how to map all possible symmetry in the universe.
Week of May 31, 2026
- A Foundation Model in Your Pocket
Mott's profile of Raspberry Pi founder Eben Upton — framing a $1.5B hardware company as an unlikely AI frontier story — is still circulating, amplified this week by Mott's appearance on Ricketts and Wolfson's new Early Days Substack.
Week of May 24, 2026