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Dad. Techno-optimist. I help tell the story of the world's best seed-stage venture capital firm – @fcollective. Formerly Wired, NASA, RISD. 🇻🇦

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"And the appearance of the four all seemed alike, as though one wheel were inside the other. When they moved, they went in any of the four directions without veering as they moved."

"And the appearance of the four all seemed alike, as though one wheel were inside the other. When they moved, they went in any of the four directions without veering as they moved."

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I'm curious about the life of the people who work in Chinese factories: + Are they like 1950s Americans who dislike their job, but are satisfied with rapidly rising living standards? + Or is sitting in a chair, jetting paint on toys just clearly a step up from toiling in the fields? + Do they resemble the characters from "Roseanne" - salt of the earth types who lack the human capital to rise elsewhere in the culture? + Are there Norma Rae style agitators? From where are they drawing their ideas? + Or is it like pre-war America where you have introspective geniuses who spray paint by day and write poetry by night? We focus so much on the high-stakes geopolitics, but the human-level questions are rarely explored.

I'm curious about the life of the people who work in Chinese factories: + Are they like 1950s Americans who dislike their job, but are satisfied with rapidly rising living standards? + Or is sitting in a chair, jetting paint on toys just clearly a step up from toiling in the fields? + Do they resemble the characters from "Roseanne" - salt of the earth types who lack the human capital to rise elsewhere in the culture? + Are there Norma Rae style agitators? From where are they drawing their ideas? + Or is it like pre-war America where you have introspective geniuses who spray paint by day and write poetry by night? We focus so much on the high-stakes geopolitics, but the human-level questions are rarely explored.

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Ghost guns are old news. The battlefield of the future belongs to additive artillery.

Ghost guns are old news. The battlefield of the future belongs to additive artillery.

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Capitalism: still the only economic system capable of delivering a skeletonized titanium framing hammer with a modular rip-claw head, customized in a vaporwave colorway.

Capitalism: still the only economic system capable of delivering a skeletonized titanium framing hammer with a modular rip-claw head, customized in a vaporwave colorway.

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Middle-aged suburban moms are stealth, early tech adopters. They just care more about cutting cloth than conspicuous computation. E.g., this lady's sewing room has a spatially registered AR system projecting vector patterns onto fabric, plus a CNC sewing machine. L33T.

Middle-aged suburban moms are stealth, early tech adopters. They just care more about cutting cloth than conspicuous computation. E.g., this lady's sewing room has a spatially registered AR system projecting vector patterns onto fabric, plus a CNC sewing machine. L33T.

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This machine is a perfect representation of humanity’s current state. A million-dollar marvel coordinating a thousand individually actuated punch elements to turn flat steel into computationally optimized geometries, with the pin coordinates scrawled on the side in Sharpie.

This machine is a perfect representation of humanity’s current state. A million-dollar marvel coordinating a thousand individually actuated punch elements to turn flat steel into computationally optimized geometries, with the pin coordinates scrawled on the side in Sharpie.

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IQ is important, but true progress requires the spirit of someone brave enough to fly a homemade glider, held together with neon string, barefoot.

IQ is important, but true progress requires the spirit of someone brave enough to fly a homemade glider, held together with neon string, barefoot.

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A great example of the slow and steady progress of 3D printing is that it's now possible to print functional fabrics with low-cost FDM printers. It's not economical, but think of where this technology was in 2016. What a fascinating modern age we live in.

A great example of the slow and steady progress of 3D printing is that it's now possible to print functional fabrics with low-cost FDM printers. It's not economical, but think of where this technology was in 2016. What a fascinating modern age we live in.

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Chinese capital equipment marketing is amazing. No brand. No spec list. Here's a video of it working. Want one? Call Cassie.

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