October 25th, 2023: Early aviation is fascinating: in response to people building their own planes the Wrights were like "we have a patent on every plane, so if you fly a plane we get all the money", but also, there was no such thing as an "aviation authority" so people just made their own planes and flew em around and the Wrights got SO ANGRY ABOUT THAT. I cover this a bit in my book HOW TO INVENT EVERYTHING :0 One year ago today: the eternal september is decades old, c'mon now – Ryan