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🧭 Start here: a 6-step reading path
- Read the overview: LockA 5-minute orientation
- Skim a recent paper: Toward a BT.2020 green emitter through a combined multiple resonance effect and multi-lock strategyInfluential work since 2022
- Pick up a classic book: Essay concerning human understandingThe most-reprinted book on the subject
- Read the landmark paper: Competing Technologies, Increasing Returns, and Lock-In by Historical EventsCited 4,925 times
- Go sideways: Synchronization (computer science)A closely related topic
- Go sideways: Lock (computer science)A closely related topic
📖 Definitions
Noun Something used for fastening, which can only be opened with a key or combination.
Noun A mutex or other token restricting access to a resource.
Noun A segment of a canal or other navigable waterway enclosed by gates, used for raising and lowering boats between levels.
Noun The firing mechanism in a gun.
🗂️ The subject at a glance
🏆 Landmark papers (most cited)
Competing Technologies, Increasing Returns, and Lock-In by Historical Events
A fast, lock-free approach for efficient parallel counting of occurrences of k -mers
Understanding carbon lock-in
Evolving the lock to fit the key to create a family of G protein-coupled receptors potently activated by an inert ligand
Parts per Million Mass Accuracy on an Orbitrap Mass Spectrometer via Lock Mass Injection into a C-trap
Carbon Lock-In: Types, Causes, and Policy Implications
Escaping carbon lock-in
Lock and key colloids
🆕 Influential since 2022
Toward a BT.2020 green emitter through a combined multiple resonance effect and multi-lock strategy
Plastics and climate change—Breaking carbon lock-ins through three mitigation pathways
Unlocking “lock-in” and path dependency: A review across disciplines and socio-environmental contexts
Multiregional single-cell dissection of tumor and immune cells reveals stable lock-and-key features in liver cancer
A Time‐Dependent Fluorescent Hydrogel for “Time‐Lock” Information Encryption
📚 Books worth reading
Essay concerning human understandingJohn Locke · 1689
Two Treatises on GovernmentJohn Locke, Ian Shapiro · 1689
A Letter Concerning TolerationJohn Locke, Kerry Walters · 1689
Zeitschrift für ägyptische Sprache und AltertumskundeHeinrich Karl Brugsch, Carl Richard Lepsius · 1863
The works of John LockeJohn Locke · 1714
Nightmares & DreamscapesStephen King · 1993
Sometimes a Great NotionKen Kesey · 1964
Key of ValourNora Roberts · 2003
Ranked by number of editions on Open Library, a rough measure of how lasting a book is.
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