Kyle Harrison
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Technological Innovation
How breakthroughs happen and propagate
The study of how technology advances, what makes a breakthrough (vs. incremental improvement), and how markets, social behavior, and institutional structures shape the pace and direction of innovation. Includes analysis of specific technologies and sectors, identification of emerging trends, and understanding the interplay between invention (technical possibility) and adoption (market/social reality).
18 Essays
34 Books
2 Saved
0 Projects
Recent Essays
Venture Capital Doesn't Exist Mar 2026
What we call 'venture capital' is actually four different things — seed investing, venture classic, supercharged growth,...
Dr. Tokens or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the AI Bubble Feb 2026
The Glorious History of Productive Delusion, The Physics of a Bubble (A Scientific Framework), Genuine Benefits of Mass ...
Chips For America Aug 2025
Building An American TSMC...
Key Books
Project Hail Mary
Nuclear War: a Scenario
The Idea Factory
Chip War
Working in Public
Latest Saved
This guy literally scraped 25,000 comments to uncover which AI tools are actually making people money (and saving hours).
Peter Thiel argues that science was "decentralized" and "healthy" before the New Deal; then after the atomic bomb, it became too centralized and bureaucratized to innovate. Before, we had "science as discovery," now we have "science as governance."