The reason bureaucratic planning doesn’t resolve weapons risk
Navy leaders have known for a very long time about what chemist and philosopher Michael Polanyi called “tacit knowledge,” or knowledge that is difficult to […]
Tacit knowledge
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. […]
Zuckerberg wisely advocates big bets on tools and people, not outputs
The government is the largest and most important funder of science, but the grants tend to be very spread out across a lot of people. […]
The R&D slowdown and how to return to a society of explorers
The discussion about whether or not progress in science and technology is slowing down could greatly benefit from a thorough reading of Michael Polanyi’s 1966 […]