Sinéad O’Sullivan
@SineadOS1
N. Irish. Investing. Former: space, defense @HarvardHBS and @MIT. Author: Good Ideas and Power Moves (Sept 2025!) @penguinbooks. Ad astra. 🚀
So excited that my debut for @NewYorker is about the boss of the moment, @taylorswift13. What started as an album review turned into an analysis of her industry (not music), her competitors (not Beyoncé) and how her private equity buyers bought the wrong asset (not albums)! 🚀
Critics are within their rights to dislike Taylor Swift's latest album. But any critique of her work that doesn’t consider her role as a prominent narrator of our time will fail to speak to even the most casual of her fans, Sinéad O’Sullivan writes. nyer.cm/wpPTqq9
YES. I mean, my wfh is now the Whole Foods fridge aisle.
Opinion: Britain and Europe need to get serious about air conditioning on.ft.com/44sxu1G
If this is your vibe, check out @MIT's Hobby Shop on Mass Ave which is pretty much this 👇!
I wanna rent a main street storefront, put a 5-axis cnc, laser cutter, robotic welder, & a bunch of robotic arms, to create a Main Street industrial vending machine that people can watch in amazement while enjoying some ice cream.
My latest writeup on But This Time It's Different: SpaceX just funneled $2 B of its rocket‑fuel cash into xAI’s Grok (almost half of its $5 B! raise). A national‑security‑contract rocket co. bankrolling an unproven chatbot? We already know the FedPut. Now, meet the #MuskPut !
My latest writeup on But This Time It's Different: SpaceX just funneled $2 B of its rocket‑fuel cash into xAI’s Grok (almost half of its $5 B! raise). A national‑security‑contract rocket co. bankrolling an unproven chatbot? We already know the FedPut. Now, meet the #MuskPut !
Such a great podcast on non-state actors (private corporations) undermining the trust in democratic institutions. Governing power rests in the hands of the wealthy, not the elected, as states chase capital. A lot of this connects to my reading of Philip Bobbitt’s work, who…
Why bother voting? And what’s the point in democracy, anyway?! @ericlonners and I shoot the shit, discussing in the latest dispatch of But This Time It’s Different (link ⬇️):
If vaccines really cause autism why doesn’t the US have better trains
I quite literally forgot that SLS was still a thing… 🤡
New SLS booster design suffers anomaly during test spacenews.com/new-sls-booste…
A new result on strange types of infinities suggests that the mathematical universe, like our physical one, may be made up mostly of dark matter. “It seems now that most of the universe somehow consists of things that we can’t see,” said the mathematician Juan Aguilera.…
Worth your time
My latest podcast with @chalmermagne on the B-2 aircraft: it’s cost, design, economics and the future/ economics of asymmetric combat! 🚀