Abundance Institute
@abundanceinst
Creating an environment for emerging technologies to grow, develop, and thrive
For 50 years, pessimists have been wrong. In this interview, The Rational Optimist author @mattwridley walks us through the miracle of human advancement, from lighting a room to transforming entire economies. This is the story you’ve never been told about how the modern world…
The new "electric tech stack" is eating the world: batteries, power electronics, motors/electromagnetics, and compute. Almost everything will be based on these 4 things. The race is to find a BIG source of demand to build a lot of them here -- defense alone will not cut it.
In China, engineers live next to factories. In the U.S., they live next to Blue Bottle. At @EdgeEsmeralda, @Noahpinion and @sdamico explored how to rebuild American manufacturing as a software-defined, battery-backed industrial renaissance.
Tune in now! @smithtjosh is live!! 💪youtube.com/watch?v=b7Oyj6… #NuclearEnergy
A new atomic age is here. Tomorrow at 1 pm ET, @smithtjosh testifies before Congress on advanced nuclear, energy abundance, and how to get SMRs online faster. Tune in → oversight.house.gov/hearing/the-ne…
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We built over 50 nuclear plants in the 1970s—fast, cheap, and at scale. Today’s designs are safer, cleaner, and more efficient. So why haven’t we built a single next-gen reactor?
I'm in DC to testify in front of the House Oversight Subcommittee on Economic Growth, Energy Policy, and Regulatory Affairs. This is the big idea: Returning to a world where nuclear energy is safe, swift, and cheap is not only possible, it's living American memory.
Prosperity runs on power. But we’ve been throttling the supply. @smithtjosh testifies shortly on how to restart the engine. Read his full written testimony here: abundance.institute/articles/new_a…
A new atomic age is here. Tomorrow at 1 pm ET, @smithtjosh testifies before Congress on advanced nuclear, energy abundance, and how to get SMRs online faster. Tune in → oversight.house.gov/hearing/the-ne…
Thank you for your excellent remarks! It was great to have you.
Just wrapped a great conversation with the @AbundanceInst on how Congress can harness AI to better serve the American people. From analyzing legislation to improving constituent services, the potential is limitless—if we get the policy right. Let’s lead with innovation. 🇺🇸
Privileged to say this is the second time I have had the chance to be in conversation with Rep. Cammack about AI, innovation, and freedom. Once again it was both a ton of fun and filled with useful perspective and information. Thank you, @RepKatCammack!
Happening now: Using AI in Public Policymaking with @RepKatCammack and @taylordbarkley discussing real-world applications of AI in legislative work.
Just wrapped a great conversation with the @AbundanceInst on how Congress can harness AI to better serve the American people. From analyzing legislation to improving constituent services, the potential is limitless—if we get the policy right. Let’s lead with innovation. 🇺🇸
Y’all need to get to know @smithtjosh. Watching his testimony tomorrow is a wonderful place to start!
A new atomic age is here. Tomorrow at 1 pm ET, @smithtjosh testifies before Congress on advanced nuclear, energy abundance, and how to get SMRs online faster. Tune in → oversight.house.gov/hearing/the-ne…
A new atomic age is here. Tomorrow at 1 pm ET, @smithtjosh testifies before Congress on advanced nuclear, energy abundance, and how to get SMRs online faster. Tune in → oversight.house.gov/hearing/the-ne…
This is what abundance looks like when you go beyond policy, move it off the whiteboard, and get it into the world.
A few thoughts on the launch of NextLadder Ventures and why it I think matters. 🧵👇 forbes.com/sites/mattduro…
At the @abundanceinst, we believe the future gets built by people who look at the impossible and decide to build anyway. To me, the announcement is a billion-dollar vote of confidence in that belief. This isn’t more charity. It’s infrastructure. It’s the early architecture of a…
Human prosperity didn’t start in the fields. It started in the marketplace. @mattwridley on how ideas spread, cultures grow, and progress accelerates.
"Ambitious optimism is morally mandatory." @abundanceinst interview with @mattwridley, author of the Rational Optimist. "Innovation.. more of a bottom-up... interaction among ordinary individuals... than through... top-down direction of clever geniuses." youtu.be/mBUP-cmk7GA?si…
One big reason why AI intelligence will gather increasingly in the browser (like Perplexity’s Comet) The browser wars are about to heat up all over again
IF YOUR JOB IS SPREADING IDEAS, PAY ATTENTION. Cloudflare's new default setting - to block AI crawlers from websites - ignores those of us who want our ideas as broadly adopted as possible. If you "write for the AI," as @tylercowen has put it, you need to take action. 🧵