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Why defense primes still can’t innovate
Professor Clayton M. Christensen was in his Harvard Business School office when his telephone rang. On the other end was William Cohen, Secretary of Defense, who asked: “Clay, I wonder if you could come to the Pentagon because we want to study what you have written.” That meeting would change not only the professor’s life but how the US military operates. The Defense Secretary had read Christensen’s book The Innovator’s Dilemma and wanted to know how his theory of disruption
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Why America’s Military Systems Still Can’t Talk to Each Other
With Picogrid founder Zane Mountcastle
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Why I mailed 30 axes to CA, TX, and NY
Hard tech’s toughest league
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Ridley: Prosperity creates new luxuries
Candles, cult wine and aluminium spoons
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Why Has This Warehouse Job Resisted Robots for 40 Years?
With Pickle Robot founder AJ Meyer
Oct 7


The coolest jobs in America
And the guy who’d never heard of SpaceX
Oct 3


How China Got Ahead—and How America Can Catch Up
American ingenuity = the only fix for China’s dominance
Sep 30


Throughput, modularity, and American power
Who’s really building America’s industrial edge?
Sep 29


Matt Ridley: how seriously should we take AI doom warnings?
Might doomers be right for once?
Sep 24


China Controls 90% of Rare Earths. This Startup Has a Fix.
With Maglut Heavy Industries founder Curtis Wu
Sep 23


Delete the human
No crew, no problem
Sep 20


This Machine Could End America's Water Shortages | Eden
With Eden Tech founder and CEO Hunter Manz
Sep 15


Ridley: A gene-edited tomato could end our vitamin D crisis
But not for the EU…
Sep 14


Yep, the singularity has begun
8 charts going vertical
Sep 13


Ridley: Why nobody sees new technology coming
The one paradox I can’t solve
Sep 10


Ridley: Don’t blame climate change for the Himalayan flash flood
Collapsing under gravity is what mountains do.
Sep 9


Wildfires Cost America $1 Trillion A Year — These Drones Can Stop Them
With Seneca founder Stuart Landesberg
Sep 8


The Starlink of drinking water
Desal in a beer cooler
Sep 6


Hunt the Archer, Not the Arrow: Why the Military's Biggest Enemy Is a $20K Drone
With CX2 founder Nathan Mintz and Ulysses cofounder Jamie Wedderburn
Sep 1


The Mount Rushmore of New Nuclear
America’s superpower, rebooted
Aug 30
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