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2026.08.06

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Article

“Dumbing down” science doesn’t make it more accessible

Advice for communicating science when the details matter

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2026.04.09

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Article

Research Has Customers

For better or worse, it's time to sell.

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2026.02.13

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Playbook

Research Leaders' Playbook

Tools and tactics for leading coordinated research programs

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2026.01.13

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Report

Spectech Lessons and Updated Hypotheses from 2025

Things we got right, things we got wrong, and things we didn't know we didn't know going into 2026

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2025.12.16

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Article

The art of industrial leapfrogging

Why manufacturing paradigms matter and how to create the next one

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2025.09.24

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Article

Who Funds Misfit Research?

A practical guide

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2025.03.18

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Article

What does it mean for a technology to scale?

A particular failure mode that we’ve noticed among scientists and engineers doing ambitious technology research is ignoring the question “does this technology scale?” It’s a question that gets thrown around a lot by VCs and technology analysts, but people rarely unpack what that means and (I suspect) many of us don’t even know.

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2025.02.11

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Essay

Unbundling the University

Why universities need to be unbundled and how to do it

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2025.01.07

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Report

2024 Year-End-Report

What we accomplished in 2024 and plans for 2025

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2023.09.05

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Roadmap

Macromolecular additive manufacturing

Making the proteins that living cells cannot make

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2023.08.18

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Story Collection

Sci-fi Fridays Compilation

Some visions of the future

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2023.02.15

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Roadmap

Nanomodular Electronics

Microelectronics made anywhere, anytime, by anyone

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2023.02.15

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Essay

Introducing Speculative Technologies

A new research organization

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2022.12.05

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Article

When should an idea that smells like research be a startup?

Some ideas “smell” like research.

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2022.08.11

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Article

Whence Systems Research?

What the the heck is systems research? Why is it important? Why are we bad at it? How could we do better?

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2021.12.13

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Article

How to think about the differences between FROs and private ARPA programs

Inside baseball differences between two institutional structures that seem similar from the outside

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