The Latticework Daily Read · July 16, 2026

A Mental-Models Reading — four sources, seven pages each.

Electronics in Space

Philip Johnston of StarCloud on inference chips for orbit — reusable rockets, triple-constraint design, and the picks-and-shovels play no one has built yet.

World's Largest Spiderweb

A sunless cave on the Greek-Albanian border hosts 100,000 spiders in a sulfur-powered ecosystem — and quietly dismantles a biological axiom.

Symboling in Institutional Economics

How symbols compress institutional knowledge into nervous-system-legible form — and why the best institutional designers are artists, not policy writers.

Anthropic Engineering

Writing Effective Tools for Agents

What tool design means when the caller is probabilistic — non-deterministic contracts, semantic legibility, and agent-assisted refinement.

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