silicon valley spent 20 years glamorizing quick-win, gamified consumer tech, synonymizing "technocracy" w whatever tech bros think a rational technocracy is emerging across the US, recalibrating financial incentives toward long-term productivity over instant gratification

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Factory Friday 🏭 in the UK this week, so here's Record just outside Glasgow 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 They're the UK’s largest maker/installer of automated entrances: sliding, revolving, folding, telescopic and fire/safety/security doors for hospitals, airports and more

I don’t like whatever flavor of adrenaline is making your flight with one minute to spare

government slinging SSRIs (state supported revival investment)

can confirm Lovable

software is a great way to extract latent value hardware is how you create it

Priorities in the right place 🇺🇸🤝🇸🇪

life is made more interesting with side quests

every time my dad and brother get cold sales emails from Ramp they forward them to me it happens at least once a week

what MBAs with a search fund think will happen when they acquire an SMB roofing company in Ohio

seeing a lot of CAT and Komatsu construction equipment in Latvia, would’ve expected complete German equipment dominance here

it’s more than a coincidence that “moat” is an anagram of “atom”

every bullet here is about social media views / hype trend emerging where college kids will do the “silly startup thing” for the summer and focus on virality and short term attention, then go back to real life schrödingers dropout

there’s a 5 million dollar business in your 5 axis, it’s your job to get it out

At the Edge-Sweets Company (ESCO), they know how to think long term They’ve been around 142 years and counting. The biggest area they’re investing in - talent If you want to build a career in Western Michigan manufacturing, I can’t think of a better place