Evrim Tekin

Library

The knowledge archive

Everything this universe stands on: original writing, books worth reading for each world, and the 111 sources behind its facts and visualisations. Every source was checked on the date shown.

Writing

  • Freedom without a new prison

    Every route to freedom comes with its own obligations. How do you choose the ones worth having?

    Essay · Origin · Oct 2026
  • Owning a business, or being owned by one

    Knowing how to work hard is not a reason to build another job for yourself. Notes on a different relationship with work.

    Essay · Civilization · Oct 2026
  • Questions beneath the surface

    Why I read across philosophy, consciousness and religious traditions, and the rules I hold myself to when writing about them.

    Essay · Origin · Oct 2026
  • What stays scarce when making things gets cheap?

    If software, research and design keep getting cheaper, value has to move somewhere. A working list of candidates, none of them assumed safe.

    Essay · Civilization · Oct 2026
  • An operating system for a one-person portfolio

    A control panel where AI agents propose work across several ventures, and anything irreversible waits for a human yes.

    Experiment · Intelligence
  • Private AI that runs at home

    Small open models running entirely on my own machines: an offline chat in the browser, and a home assistant that never leaves the network.

    Experiment · Intelligence
  • An opportunity engine

    Taking an open-source research framework built for trading and generalising it, so trading becomes one plugin among several.

    Experiment · Intelligence
  • Between the UK and Turkey

    Two places, two languages, and the useful friction between them.

    Note · Frontier
  • White Dragon

    The van is real. What it becomes is still open.

    Note · Frontier

Reading list, by world

Works named on each subject page. Linked titles are free to read online.

Origin

Cosmos

  • c. 150 Almagest — Ptolemy Astronomy
  • 1543 On the Revolutions — Nicolaus Copernicus Astronomy
  • 1610 Sidereus Nuncius — Galileo Galilei Astronomy
  • 1916 Solution to Einstein’s field equations — Karl Schwarzschild Black holes
  • 1994 Black Holes and Time Warps — Kip Thorne Black holes
  • 2022 Image of Sagittarius A* — Event Horizon Telescope Black holes
  • 1905 On the Electrodynamics of Moving Bodies — Albert Einstein Relativity
  • 1915 The Field Equations of Gravitation — Albert Einstein Relativity
  • 1930 The Physical Principles of the Quantum Theory — Werner Heisenberg Quantum mechanics
  • 1985 QED: The Strange Theory of Light and Matter — Richard Feynman Quantum mechanics
  • 2020 Helgoland — Carlo Rovelli Quantum mechanics
  • c. 300 BCE Elements — Euclid Mathematics
  • 1202 Liber Abaci — Fibonacci Mathematics
  • 1931 Incompleteness theorems — Kurt Gödel Mathematics

Life

Civilization

Intelligence

Creation

Frontier

Sources

The registry behind every fact. Each subject cites these by number.

Research papers 16
Primary texts 11
Books and essays 2
Encyclopedias 15
Science and public agencies 28
Datasets 14
Institutions and organisations 25

Datasets

  • Life on a timeline of deep time

    Places key moments in the history of life on a scale where each step back is ten times older.

    US Geological Survey, Nature, International Commission on Stratigraphy, Smithsonian Human Origins Program
  • World life expectancy at birth, 1960–2024

    How long a newborn could expect to live, worldwide, by year.

    World Bank Open Data
  • The planets, to scale in distance and time

    Shows how far apart the planets really are and how long each year lasts, using NASA’s figures.

    NASA Goddard (NSSDCA)
  • Bristol to Burdur

    Where the two homes are, and the distance between them.

    OpenStreetMap
  • The space age

    The milestones of human and robotic exploration, from the first powered flight to Webb.

    Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum, NASA, NASA, NASA Science, NASA, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, NASA Science
  • WHO healthy-diet targets for adults

    The daily limits and minimums WHO recommends, side by side.

    World Health Organization
  • World GDP, 1960–2024 (current US$)

    The size of the world economy in money terms; not adjusted for inflation.

    World Bank Open Data
  • World population, 1960–2024

    The number of people alive, by year.

    World Bank Open Data