Nikhil O'Sheal

Speed Queen should start making other appliances. Hell they should start making vehicles while they’re at it. Lone survivor corp who hasn’t sold their soul to junk Chinese electronics.

it’s hard to overstate how deranged the pace is at the moment (even ppl like ilya are amazed by it). we’re in this weird liminal epoch where reality is outpacing people’s priors so fast that most minds just silently segfault. my contrarian take is that we’re inside a cultural singularity much more than a technical one. this is the entire thesis of my account (see the pinned tweet). i’m here because there still aren’t enough people who feel the magnitude of what’s happening cuz we’re living through a chapter that historians will write like scripture. i still can’t really wrap my head around it.

I enriched list of 1,032 technical schools training America's workforce, including capabilities learned a ton about where skilled trades education is concentrated, and where gaps might be 🧵

It’s funny how people literally can’t conceive of this Cities used to be FOR FACTORIES. That’s what they DID. That’s where urban dwellers WORKED. City economies were MANUFACTURING ECONOMIES. Every hip urban neighborhood used to look like GUANGZHOU. Offices were an AFTERTHOUGHT.

talked to the saw manufacturer today only “2 or 3” of these saws in America

A huge part of successful industrialization in the 20th century was the sharing of expertise between engineers in different countries in joint enterprises, factory visits, etc. American "reindustrialization" begins with scaring off people who still know how to make things.