Build/Boost

If you pay as little as possible, only giving raises when an employee gets the gumption to ask, always applying downward force, never thinking about that employees future, never investing in their growth... you can not get mad when they leave you and act like you got betrayed.

This is what is truly telling about the average IQ. People simply can’t comprehend that net worth is a calculation of total assets minus liabilities. Most assets are not liquid when you are actively building companies. So if you want to take a piece of someone’s wealth, they have to sell what is currently being used as capital to grow businesses, which actively stifles progress and even eliminates other people’s jobs.

This could actually be a cool company to start: reverse engineer every part of various models of cars, tractors, appliances, etc., including component materials, and (1) open source the plans, (2) build a small AI model around the data

Here's some more of his banger takes from the same panel

Together with UC Berkeley we are announcing the laser phase plate - a breakthrough in atomic resolution imaging. This is the brightest continuous wave laser in the world, 100 million times the intensity of the surface of the sun. Phase contrast plays an important role in microscopy, but it was thought close to impossible for electron microscopy, where it would require interfering with an electron beam. Holger Mueller and Robert Glaeser proposed exactly this using a standing wave laser. It has taken over 15 years to make this a reality. Biohub partnered with UC Berkeley and Mueller to support this work and to engineer and build the technology. Contrast has been the critical barrier to achieving atomic resolution imaging of the cell. In cryo-electron tomography, a cellular imaging technology that uses electron microscopy, the low contrast makes it impossible to resolve anything but the largest proteins within their cellular context. The laser phase plate removes that barrier. With advances in AI this breakthrough in contrast will start to open up a new frontier in structural biology, that will allow us to see the molecular machines of the cell, and how they assemble into far more complex and dynamic systems, and understand how they work.

A superb guerrilla marketing campaign by some reindustrialized American robotics firm, to deploy self ascending swarms to precisely paint detail optical illusions instead of graffiti or crumbling concrete across high visibility spaces. Autonomous, no margin of error, fast as the perfect tech demo.