A story on how military innovation is stifled
In a very interesting episode of the a16z podcast, Marc Andreessen talks about how society often pushes back on technology. A famous case of military […]
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HASC Chairman: defense acquisition is hard!
The chairman of the House Armed Services committee today passionately pushed back on the idea that wasteful spending on defense systems is the result of […]
Regulated industries and the divide between Silicon Valley and DC
New bank charters actually were running pretty high up until 2008, and then they dropped to zero. Whatever happened in banking reform and regulation, and […]
Permissionless innovation and the graveyard of things never created
There is another reason for decentralization. That reason is what’s called permissionless innovation. If censorship is the thing you saw that now goes away, permissionless […]
Software tooling: The next technology high ground for interservice rivalry
… the U.S. Army Communications-Electronics Command Software Engineering Center is taking on the challenge with an ambitious initiative known as the Software Engineering Environment, or […]
Marc Andreessen says it’s time to build. But what’s standing in the way?
Medical equipment and financial conduits involve no rocket science whatsoever. At least therapies and vaccines are hard! Making masks and transferring money are not hard. […]
The last thing software will eat: project selection
Tyler: What’s the last thing software will eat? Marc: I think its fundamentally — the term that you used was project selection — and […]