Jan Sramek 🇺🇲 🌁 ⛰️ California Forever Jan Sramek 🇺🇲 🌁 ⛰️ So excited about this! It’s about time. We can’t afford to build factories so far from where we are innovating. We have way too many regulations in CA which make building factories/ doing manufacturing in CA impossible. I hope that changes.

Three easy steps: (1) look for the capital of technocapital in the US (SF) (2) put a new city next to it that lets you build (3) co-locate the entire electric stack (batteries / motors / power electronics / all the stuff in a phone)

If CA and the Democratic Party is serious about "Abundance" they will make this or something of this scale happen. If not, it's merely talk. Same for the Republicans and MAGA, in terms of peeling back red tape and the state and federal level and greenlighting ambitious projects

Jan Sramek 🇺🇲 🌁 ⛰️ California Forever The defeatist attitude in the replies is alarming… “What about this or that” & “it won’t work” instead of solutions Losing is not an option, and I wholeheartedly agree: "Either we're going to fix California, or we're going to lose with China."

The most ambitious projects initially seem crazy. The ones that succeed hit an inflection point where the idea begins to feel inevitable. This feels like one of those moments.

the elves are leaving middle earth

China is pumping out surface combatants at a bewildering pace. It's nuts how fast their yards move. It's accelerating. Every day we lose ground. And no, qualitative advantage is not everything in this equation. Every single day the gap is widening. It will take a massive

Buildings too tall, no setbacks, inadequate parking provision, overlooks neighbouring properties, retail generates excessive noise impacts, repetitive design features Planning application denied

We should be making our cities as dense as we possibly can so that we can save our farms and natural land from suburban sprawl. Land conservation legit one of the biggest reasons why I’m a YIMBY.

The new shipbuilding stats from UN Trade and Development are out. The only thing sadder than 🇺🇸’s standing is the 🇬🇧’s

In a time of accelerating change, you want to be closest to all the people who are bringing about that change You need to be in San Francisco

Some personal news. Today, I’m leaving The Atlantic after almost 17 years and moving my writing to Substack. It would be convenient, for the purposes of crafting an exciting departure announcement, to have a dramatic exit story: a fight, a grievance, a shouting match with an