Eli Dourado
Person on 3 sites
Economist writing on why technological progress slowed
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1 channel on ppll (opens ppll.app)
Where public figures publish, and what they are on record saying.
Updated 2024-10-14 -
6 beliefs on korrents (opens korrents.com)
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A large cargo airship is probably not fundable as a startup, because it stays capital-intensive and risky until late in development. (opens korrents.com)
“Cargo airship margins, therefore, can be much higher than I had realized.”
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Investors avoid hard tech for its capital intensity while the largest returns available are in exactly those physical markets. (opens korrents.com)
“Many software investors eschew hard tech startups because of their capital intensity, but it’s hard to deny that huge returns are possible in hard tech: just consider SpaceX.”
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Some physical technologies cannot be developed by iterating on a small prototype, because at small scale the thing you want does not make physical sense. (opens korrents.com)
“A small rigid-body airship for good physical reasons should not exist.”
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A large cargo airship is probably not fundable as a startup, because it stays capital-intensive and risky until late in development. (opens korrents.com)
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2 recommendations on rcmnd (opens rcmnd.app)
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Finite and Infinite Games (opens rcmnd.app)
“I recommend the book to people who are highly Open (and to a lesser extent non-Conscientious) on the Big Five personality model.”
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Snow Crash (opens rcmnd.app)
“If you haven’t yet read Snow Crash , beware, and remedy that problem soon.”
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Finite and Infinite Games (opens rcmnd.app)