The Titanium Economy
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The Titanium Economy
| Full title | The Titanium Economy: How Industrial Technology Can Create a Better, Faster, Stronger America |
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| Author | Asutosh Padhi, Gaurav Batra & Nick Santhanam |
| Published | 2022 |
| Recommended | Once |
| Buy | Amazon |
| Why it’s on the list | Three McKinsey partners argue that American industry is not a sunset sector: the several thousand mid-size industrial-technology companies — components, sensors, instruments, specialised machinery — have been strong performers, mispriced because they are unglamorous rather than because they are declining. The counter-argument to treating software as the only place returns live. |
Where I heard about it
- Fil Arons (@FilArons) — in the required section of his recommended-reading list, November 2025.
Connections
- Manufacturing — the sector the book is arguing about.
- American Dynamism — the live version of the same thesis in venture terms.
- Hard Tech — where these companies get categorised when they do get attention.
- McKinsey — the authors’ firm, and the source of the underlying data set.
What links here
Curated by Kyle Harrison. Organized by Claude. Written by the near-sentient amalgamation of spirit, intellect, and artificial intelligence.