Alec Stapp
@AlecStapp
Co-founder @IFP, an innovation policy think tank
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Moore's 2nd Law states that the cost of a semiconductor fab doubles about every four years. In the early 1970s a fab cost just $4M to build. Today, modern fabs cost up to $25B. This week on Construction Physics, I look at what it takes to build a fab. construction-physics.com/p/how-to-build…
If you read just one thing today, make it “How to Actually Implement a Policy” from Jennifer Pahlka and Santi Ruiz statecraft.pub/p/how-to-actua…
Spoiler alert: every problem we care about requires that we solve a crisis of state capacity
Incredible from Santi Ruiz interview with Jennifer Pahlka about government hiring processes and how absurd they can be.
TBH, I wouldn't be shocked if many large corporations also have unintended perversities built into their initial screening of job candidates
statecraft.pub/p/how-to-actua…
This new one from Institute for Progress / Statecraft is worth your time. How to make government function in a way that, Rs and Ds can both support. At root a functioning program is about leadership and decision making.
statecraft.pub/p/how-to-actua…
We could be doing much better at recruiting the world's most promising young people to build their careers here
Our immigration system is mostly designed for people already established—not future superstars
In a new piece, Hamidah Oderinwale and I discuss how to fix this huge blindspot⬇️