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TW Lim

TW Lim

TW Lim studied sociology and design and has worked in restaurants, big data, and 3D printing. Originally from Singapore, he writes about the business and culture of food.
15 posts •
The Shore. paid
7 min read

The Shore.

Software doesn’t run on top of hardware – it saturates it.…
TW Lim
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Reliability Compounds paid
Project Notes • 9 min read

Reliability Compounds

The magical fact isn’t that we have jet planes. It’s that modern airliners are reliable to the tune of one accident per 1.13 million flights.…
TW Lim
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Wine, Technology. paid
8 min read

Wine, Technology.

Using a mechanical harvester requires a winemaker to accept imperfect control over the time and manner of the crush, which then demands other tradeoffs in the winemaking process.…
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Selling Sunshine public
Palm Oil • 8 min read

Selling Sunshine

William Lever was merely a megalomaniac and a marketer, but when he died, obituaries compared him both to Napoleon and to Henry Ford.…
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On Guayule paid
Rubber • 5 min read

On Guayule

A less expedient — yet promising — source of natural latex.…
TW Lim
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Whale On Toast public
Palm Oil • 6 min read

Whale On Toast

For much of the time that humans hunted whales, we hunted them mostly for margarine.…
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