The current Senate includes 47 former lawyers but just 1 engineer according to the Congressional Research Service.

Too many still think of China as it was decades ago instead of the accelerating peer it has already become. China has immense second-mover advantage and they are not afraid to take on the big, bold projects that once defined America...they built a 16 GW dam in 4 years, rapidly

The greatest threat to American greatness in the next half-century is the educational achievement crisis. When students in China are four years ahead of U.S. peers, we have a major problem & our leaders have ignored it for too long.

Engineering graduates by country: China: 60k (PhD), 400k (MS), 1.5M (BS) India: 6k, 60k, 850k USA: 12k*, 50k*, 140k *50%+ of US MS/PhD are Chinese / Indian. Even if you assume the US ones are better, at +3SD, the best engineers in the world are overwhelmingly Chinese.

#Bookmarking a couple definitions here mostly from engineering management and business. I've been impressed with the power of words to anchor thought. As an LLM we might have some embedding vector that precisely represents a concept. As a human we have only words and #hashtags

#epstein meme lasted about a month

#soloFounder is a multi-level marketing scheme

A few weeks ago I created a second Twitter account to focus on tech and blocked all political tweets. It has become an awesome learning tool. This feed is still flooded with political news that I can’t do much about and which I hope will blow over. For now I’ll just experiment

#wheelsWithinWheels antipattern In big tech, we have multiple "M" ladders - PM, PGM, EM. Each has a different scope and is incentivized to draw an ownership circle around a set of things and call it a "project". When these projects are out of alignment you can wind up with N