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Bell Labs was the original skunkworks. They invented: - Transistor - Laser - Solar cell - UNIX - C language - Fiber optics - Digital signal processing - Touch-tone - CCD (digital imaging) - Cellular networks and the model for lab-to-factory innovation pre-DFM
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most people don’t actually need money to achieve their dreams. it’s cope, a lullaby for the chronically inert. it’s the excuse people cling to when the real cost is showing up every day. you’re not broke, you’re scared. you are one blog post or project away from greatness. you…
So many societies learned about their ow genealogy and history through archaeological evidence. This practice and frontier deserves patronage.
Check out my new article in Palladium: Archaeology seems to be a very unusual practice, and won't outlast our civilization. Every civilization studies the ancient texts, but there are only three known cases of a civilization studying the ancient artifacts.
Best way to attract extraordinary young talent is to be open to waste little time in case it doesn’t workout but be accessible to them. Even a 15-20 minute call with them is enough to boost their confidence
My greatest wins in life comes from where I fluidly let my instincts take over and act immediately on it while procrastinating on a definite grand plan
Larry Page and Sergey Brin tried to sell Google for under $1m so they could return to their PhDs. Paul Allen had to convince Bill Gates to drop out of Harvard. Bill Hewlett and Dave Packard took day jobs until pushed by a professor to start HP. Steve Wozniak wanted HP to build…
The idea of convincing people to become entrepreneurs is ridiculous. If you need to be convinced, you shouldn’t do it. Starting a company is totally irrational—you need to be obsessed and committed to a painful, decade-long grind. Most people are better off as employees.
Next 5 years represent a unique convergence moment where emerging technologies, regulatory gaps, and social movements create unprecedented synthesis opportunities. The greatest empire-building potential lies not in established domains, but at their unexplored intersections.
Why care about fertility rates as a technologist? A society with an inverted age pyramid where most humans are old is structurally hostile to technological change. It's that simple.
To student researchers sending resume We already expect you to be very talented and that's the reason we are talking to to you. Please don't send a GPT email letter and resume and make you good record into a slop. We can tell.
Netflix is teaming up with NASA to bring space a little closer to home. Beginning this summer, Netflix will begin to stream LIVE rocket launches, astronaut spacewalks, mission coverage, and breathtaking live views of Earth from the International Space Station.
I think this is something that is nearly impossible to mimic at this stage, e.g. “human negligence” with a physical feedback. Introducing errors is one thing, introducing entropy within constraints is one thing, but making human type of mistakes in a weird humanly way is hard.
and also there is the evergreen, historically proven fact: many important discoveries, including breakthrough therapies or methods came simply from accidents. pipeting too much, leaving something out on the bench, etc.
Probably AI tools + rapid feedback from automated hardware with human in the loop will be the state of art for a long time.
LLM type and current “AI” class tools for sure will accelerate protocols and pipelines, and will increase experiment consistencies. However, the biology as software sentiment will not stand until