Dear Senators, Vinod Khosla and I have a message for you: @Tiktok_us is Weapon and It’s Time to Divest it from CCP Control. The New York Times

Today we're thrilled to be hosting our 5th annual Ferment conference!

Ferment will begin with a keynote address from Jason Kelly, who will discuss the value that customers across industries can create on Ginkgo’s platform, whether they’re engaging in end-to-end cell engineering…

re: Amazon - this is wrong.

A capitulation. Pain avoidance.

Will bias to mercenaries over missionaries.

Lesson #1 from piratewires.com/p/primacy-of-w…

I loved this interview with Trae Stephens He was more direct on the dysfunction of government on software.

Government Uniqueness is a red-herring for why the government undertakes custom development.

The reality is that engineers like owning things and building things.…

'We built so much epic shit because of the chaos during Maven. And it was epically painful, one of the most painful experiences I’ve had, because of the chaos. And I would do it all again.'

Veteran Palantir CTO Shyam Sankar (Shyam Sankar) is on the site today with a massive…

When people ask me, “How do you build a high-performing engineering team?,” the answer is: I don’t. High performance engineering teams are downstream of culture, and a culture reigns supreme if it has internalized the primacy of winning. Because winning is what matters.

JRock…

It is time to rename SBIR or it will forever remain a welfare program... or more cynically a way to keep small folks small and protect the bigs.

The point of small business is to get BIG. There is no leverage without achieving scale.

We are not trying to create lifestyle…

Never ever at Palantir. Phenomenally talented assholes FTW.

Turn up the volume!

Meet Quarterhorse Mk 1 – our first aircraft that will take to the skies this summer at the legendary Edwards Air Force Base.

Content over Process
Creation over Comfort
Innovation is a consequence of Production

Intel made the same mistake, now fixed, passing over Pat Gelsinger as CEO

@generalelectric under Welsh & Immelt

IBM under Rometty

We are a nation of builders and founders
Otherwise we are a…

Chuck Spinney made a similar - and correct - argument in Defense Facts of Life (1980), “We need more money to strengthen our military; however, we believe that unless we change the way we do business, more money could actually make our problems worse.”

'the Defense Department doesn’t need new studies or recommendations. It just needs a new conviction that bold and dramatic change is necessary'

When you try to solve problems that can only be managed you build up thick bureaucracy where only human judgement (and accepting the…

The loss of the Shift fellowship was a terrible own goal by the Department of Defense 🇺🇸 and it comes at a critical time in American Military Civil Relations.

Shift has been responsible for seeding much of the defense tech renaissance over the last 5 years and with DoD showing what an…