"It will be seen, then...that the production and the divisibility of the light by incandescence is a very wasteful process - so wasteful, indeed, as to render its practical application impossible for general lighting" - Nature, 1878 nature.com/articles/01905
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!! Today, rather than funding, research and innovation are the biggest bottlenecks to advancing carbon removal technologies.
The Stripe Climate team created an editable database to make identifying (and *solving*) those knowledge gaps easier. Check it out: 🤓
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Want to help scale carbon removal technologies?
We’ve identified 100+ research and innovation gaps that need filling:
Here are 15 of them that need attention. 
frontierclimate.com/writing/cdr-ga
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“Today, Western capitals are flooded with politicos who have little understanding of a country [China] they place at the center of their political programs. This must change.” 🎯
Excited to see launch the Center for Strategic Translation!strategictranslation.org//
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. puts his finger on the deeper problem here: our culture has turned against focusing on business. And that’s opened the door for all kinds of fraud and scams. #esg #stakeholdercapitalism
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I’m reading Chip War (thanks !) & am now even more bullish on the role AZ and other hard-tech ecosystems (will think of a better term…) are going to play in shaping the US’future.
Also, I recommend the book!
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I, like Ben, think Vannevar Bush probably deserves as much blame for the state of our modern research ecosystem as he does *praise* for what it enabled during WWII and after. That alone should make him required reading for people thinking about building new institutions.
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Biased, but IMO, the foreword @Ben_Reinhardt wrote for Pieces of the Action is as valuable as anything Bush wrote. Short 
of some of the best parts:
“Paying attention to the poetry of history gives us a valuable perspective on things that today seem unprecedented and urgent.”
of some of the best parts:
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“Change depends on *both* heroic individuals *and* effective organizations (and institutions more broadly). Individuals are not more important than institutions, *nor* are institutions more important than individuals.”
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“Seeing the world through Bush’s eyes is a potent reminder that while it’s tempting to interpret the way things turn out as inevitable…[it’s] anything but. And, as Bush points out, the tipping point often rests with far-seeing, energetic individuals. We can be those individuals.
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Biased, but IMO, the foreword wrote for Pieces of the Action is as valuable as anything Bush wrote. Short 🧵 of some of the best parts:
“Paying attention to the poetry of history gives us a valuable perspective on things that today seem unprecedented and urgent.”
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bringing this back
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Something unsettling about the simultaneous rise of our cultural obsession with therapy and the mainstreaming of the term “emotional labor“ to describe mundane duties of care to friends/family—two sides of the same atomistic coin.
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This is basically the opposite of what I believe
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Aaron Swartz would be 36 years old today.
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. is quietly assembling an extremely effective, ambitious team.
Santi is sourcing research proposals in the following areas: metascience, immigration, biosecurity, and infrastructure. If working on neglected, yet tractable, policy areas is your thing, get it touch!
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I've joined the @IFP team as Senior Editor! I'll be helping their excellent fellows with their work on energy reform, biosecurity, immigration, and more.
In exchange, they made me a nice portrait:
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Bono: noted musician, and, more importantly, reader of : nytimes.com/2022/11/03/boo whole interview is a fun one!
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Some incredible folks are looking for their next roles — get in touch here:
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If you’d like to hire any of the wonderful former Stripe employees who are leaving, email alumni-hiring@stripe.com. We’ll let you know as soon as the directory is ready.
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Nuclear energy is carbon-free, reliable 24/7, and incredibly safe -- yet it remains misunderstood, rarely celebrated, and deeply underinvested in.
I wrote this essay about why that is, and how we can build more of it. Comments/Qs/feedback welcome!
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When Toyota bought a 9% stake in Subaru (2007) they did an "engineer swap", over 100 people, so they could explore possible synergies and inefficiencies in the respective companies.
I find it unfortunate there's no real analog in software companies. But maybe there is now.
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Tesla engineers reviewing Twitter's code base to tell Musk what Twitter needs to do is...interesting
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The future belongs to…those who don’t want to preemptively regulate it out of existence.
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Impossible not to feel excited about Arizona (& the broader Sunbelt!) when you see what’s being built up close.
In a few years, greater Phoenix will be home to: , Taiwan Semiconductor’s first US foundry, more Intel facilities, not to mention EVs… 🚀
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. and I are speaking with a lot of top-tier international ML / AI talent who are interested in working at US-based startups but are unclear about who offers visa support.
If you're actively hiring for these roles, let us know and we can share profiles + visa pathways
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I’m so impressed with Luke (who’s still a student, by the way!) and the work he did to produce this fabulous documentary: an 80-year snapshot of MIT, starting with the Manhattan Project.
It’s *also* a kind of unorthodox biography of Vannevar Bush. Self-recommending!
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After 2 years of work, MIT: REGRESSIONS is now available to watch online.
It's a feature-length documentary that spans 80 years of MIT's/America's history via AI-enhanced archival footage.
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So…where should we go next!?
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400+ people later…I’m ready to call it — SF is back ❣️
Thank you to everyone who came to our first pop-up! Now that we know there’s demand…stay tuned for more 🤓
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@_TamaraWinter crushing the @stripepress popup. Long sf twitter.com/_TamaraWinter/…
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👀👀 stripe.events/stripe-press-p
(I’m told these bookmarks and stickers are made from…recycled silk!?)
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“Almost every material you use besides wood has involved melting something”
Energy abundance could unlock enormous improvements in standards of living.
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This interview of J. Storrs Hall (Where is My Flying Car?) is excellent.
That graph was really flabbergasting.
worksinprogress.co/issue/intervie
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I really enjoyed writing this piece on nanotechnology. Thanks to the team at for the opportunity.
And now I have to go read the rest of the issue. There goes my morning!
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The “traitorous eight” who left Shockley Semiconductor to found Fairchild Semiconductor (1957)
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In the meantime, I'll be doing my part to reverse our stagnation by trying to convince the design team to put this on a hoodie
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(with apologies to all of the Good Lawyers out there)
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Also appreciated this point from Josh: it's easy to blame hippies, baby boomers, blah blah blah, for our anti-growth turn. Josh isn't convinced (and neither am I).
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The proximate cause of stagnation (or, put a different way, of wtf happened in 1971)? In a word, energy.
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For LOST IN STAGNATION, the first of many / collaborations, I interviewed J. Storrs Hall, author of ‘Where is My Flying Car’ to talk about stagnation and the possibility of progress: worksinprogress.co/issue/intervie
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For our new issue, @_TamaraWinter interviewed J. Storrs Hall himself to ask her questions about his work. Some highlights...
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The 1972 Rolling Stone article wrote with pictures: SPACEWAR one of the first stories about computers, gaming, VR, ARPA, Xerox PARC etc. circa #50yearsago
Articles finishes with sample Alan Kay code to build your own game
wheels.org/spacewar/stone
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As a general rule, tweeting at me to do something is more effective than you'd expect🫡
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Since you asked so nicely...
Excited to fulfill my dreams of launching a bookstore (for exactly 3 hours) this Sunday in SF!
Come for the books, stay for a protracted argument on what merch we should create next: stripe.events/stripe-press-p
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We have quite a serious problem when ostensibly serious political commentators are equating tax breaks for parents with the Nazi mass murder of disabled people.
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If only *anyone* involved in saying this had even the slightest knowledge of history, notably the history of eugenics, or Nazi Germany. twitter.com/kateferguson4/…
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