Physical systems
- Construction
- Housing
- Infrastructure
- Manufacturing
- Robotics
- Energy
- Logistics
Intelligence
- Artificial intelligence
- Human-computer interaction
- Autonomous systems
- Local AI
- Voice interfaces
Companies and markets
- Entrepreneurship
- Marketplaces
- Distribution
- Incentives
- Organizational design
- International markets
The live list
Questions I keep coming back to
- 01
Why is so much construction still done by hand?
- 02
Which housing costs could better technology actually bring down?
- 03
How much does infrastructure cost because people and schedules are hard to coordinate?
- 04
If AI gets cheap, what still makes the physical work expensive?
- 05
Where are people paying more because they can't get the information they need?
- 06
When does it make sense to run the whole operation yourself instead of building a marketplace?
- 07
How do you know when to drop a business idea?
- 08
What would make me change my mind about all this?
- 09
Which constraints in the physical world are fundamental, and which only look fundamental?
- 10
Why do technically superior products often lose?