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Founders - stop using AI to write your investor emails.
TLDR - Its an automatic turn off and I won't read it.
Jan 15
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Alex Schwarzkopf
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Sci Fi Christmas List
Stories, machines, and futures we keep returning to
Dec 23, 2025
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Powder & Stone. Or, Why Medieval Rulers Loved Castles.
And how gunpowder and castles led to modern states and centralized taxation. Part I.
Dec 11, 2025
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areoform
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A drop in the ocean
Building 1517.
Oct 2, 2025
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Danielle Strachman
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Why Bell Labs Worked.
Or, how MBA culture killed Bell Labs
May 11, 2025
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areoform
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Why Bell Labs Worked.
May 11, 2025
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areoform
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The Flux Capacitor - Time, Funds, and Peers for Revolutionary Science
Jan 25, 2024
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Harry Gandhi
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Forgetting The Asbestos.
Oct 24, 2022
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areoform
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1517 Garage Science: Flux Capacitor Applications to Open April 23
Apr 7, 2025
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Michael Gibson
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The Renaissance Reimagined
Jul 18, 2023
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Danielle Strachman
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areoform
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2E. Part Deux.
Jul 18, 2024
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Danielle Strachman
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areoform
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1517 Garage Science: Flux Capacitor Applications to Open April 23
Bureaucratic science excels at refining what’s known, but it’s ill-suited for the frontier, where the rules aren’t yet written. Time to lift the garage…
Apr 7, 2025
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Michael Gibson
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Inside v. Outside Context Problems.
Or, why smart people are bad at making predictions about the future.
Mar 14, 2025
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areoform
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On regret, in life and business.
Examining an incredibly dis-empowering word
Aug 10, 2024
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Alex Schwarzkopf
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2E. Part Deux.
1517's Teen Fall Camp is back! So back!
Jul 18, 2024
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Danielle Strachman
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areoform
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Flux Capacitor Cohort Release
We kicked off the Flux cohort, by backing renegade scientists working on nerve regeneration, hydrogen production, stem cell therapies, and more.
Jun 5, 2024
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Harry Gandhi
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2E = Gummy Bears, Lockpicking & Aerospace.
Notes on Exploring the Cutting-Edge with Teens. Or, What We Learned from Our Fall Camp for Teens.
Apr 22, 2024
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Danielle Strachman
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areoform
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Why Didn't Stanley Kubrick & Arthur C. Clarke Predict The iPad?
Or, why does everyone in 2001: A Space Odyssey use a clipboard?
Mar 7, 2024
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areoform
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