12 years ago I met Jane Goodall. My family spent time with her before a lecture at ECU, and I’ll never forget learning she always requested a bottle of really good whiskey backstage. An inspiring, badass woman who never stopped fighting for a better world. RIP.

Headed to the Special Competitive Studies Project AI + Fusion Summit tomorrow. I’ll be talking about what it takes to build a fusion-powered economy - not just prove the science. Because the race isn’t to demonstrate fusion. It’s to scale it.

In the hauntingly familiar words of the Talking Heads: “And you may ask yourself, well—how did I get here?” Decades of inventing world-changing tech—and letting China scale it. We can’t make that mistake with fusion. techbrew.com/stories/2025/1… via Morning Brew ☕️

I always leave conversations with Rafael Mariano Grossi feeling renewed optimism about the global deployment of fusion energy - and reminded of the critical role the @IAEAorg will play in helping countries access fusion safely and quickly. Our meeting yesterday drove home two big

China built the solar century - and they won it. We can debate the “how,” but not the outcome. But the fusion century is still wide open, and the U.S. can win it if we make different choices this time. My new op-ed in National Interest: nationalinterest.org/blog/energy-wo…

"China built the solar century. The next one — the fusion century — can still be ours. But only if we learn to build like a nation that wants to win again." Jackie Siebens on how to take the lead in the races for the next frontier energy industry: nationalinterest.org/blog/energy-wo…

For the love of God break out of the ideology bubbles long enough to fix our ability to build anything in this country. 1. Carefully reform NEPA- not gut it, but be honest about how rampant litigation is stalling growth. 2. Yes, what we build and where matters. But blocking NEPA

This is worth a read but the whole piece comes down to this: “The risk for the United States is we create a viable technical pathway first, but then China engineers and scales it up before we can.” That’s the risk we still refuse to take seriously. nytimes.com/2025/12/13/cli…

“We’re essentially building the infrastructure of the future with components that could be withheld, surveilled, or compromised.” This is it. This is the problem we need to be running hard at solving—with our friends and allies. politico.eu/article/energy…

Slowing down has become central to doing my best work. Every measurable improvement in my mental health has made my work exponentially better with fewer panic moments, clearer priorities, and better judgment. But this only works if you actually tell the people who matter what