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Jun 30, 2025
Austin as the first live A/B test of autonomy stacks; the probabilist and the determinist; probing the Per Aspera hive mind; a private GPS successor;
Jun 23, 2025
America says “build here” but 81% don’t understand high-tech manufacturing. This is the first honest read on what the country actually thinks about factories, automation, and our industrial future.
We asked the nation about a topic near-and-dear to our hearts: reindustrialization. And here's what we found.
Jun 16, 2025
Electrons can’t keep up with AI’s thermal and latency demands. This antimemo explores how photonic interconnects and optical architectures offer a path beyond the industrial internet’s limits.
We’re building cathedrals of compute — racks of silicon, corridors of power — on a dying substrate. Electrons powered the last epoch. Photonics may define the next.
Jun 9, 2025
We don’t need a rain dance — we need a systems upgrade. In this newsletter, we give desal the love it deserves. We explore what real intervention looks like: a solar-powered, off-grid desalination system delivering 4.5 million acre-feet per year — integrated with aquifer recharge and targeted flows to revive the Salton Sea.
The American Southwest is running dry — and most solutions sound like sermons: conserve more, grow less, accept decline. This isn’t a morality tale. It’s a blueprint for turning sunlight and seawater into a future that can keep growing.
Jun 2, 2025
America’s industrial strength was never just a story of machines — it was a story of people. In this newsletter, we map the people and their expertise. Where it’s vanished, why it’s so hard to recover, and what it will take to preserve and leverage this disappearing advantage in the age of automation.
There's a common refrain that we can’t build this* anymore, we forgot how to do it. That's called tribal knowledge. This antimemo is a step toward restoring that lost mastery and rebuilding American industrial power from the inside out.
Jun 1, 2025
Teardown dissects the most critical companies in today’s deep tech ecosystem — six points at a time. This edition breaks down Redwire Space’s use of Epsilon3: a software backbone powering modern space mission operations.