Writing

There’s a great story in Stewart Brand’s How Buildings Learn about how a temporary wooden structure left over from World War II became one of the most loved buildings at MIT. During the war, MIT needed a new building to [...]  Read more

It is said that while history doesn’t repeat, it does rhyme. This is a pattern we've observed before in the Internet era. When a novel technology arrives, early infrastructure is controlled (or attempted to be controlled) by a small number [...]  Read more

The world is becoming programmable and, increasingly, easy to program. But the underlying and consistent current running through this massive and systemic wave is a need for abundant, efficient energy. The rate of change makes what’s possible feel unbounded but [...]  Read more

Starting and running early companies requires a series of prioritizations and tradeoffs of how to do a lot with a little bit, both of capital and time. Behind deep product insights are repetitive workflows core to how a business runs: [...]  Read more

Data is the most valuable currency, but for most startups, it's trapped inside different platforms, requiring days of digging, combining, and packaging to answer basic and constant questions. Your team needs this data to make decisions. Your investors are asking [...]  Read more

If eight billion humans already possess the dexterous manipulation skills we want robots to have, why not let robots learn directly from humans, in realtime, at industrial scale and in the environments where they are needed?  This central thesis for Tutor [...]  Read more