Turks All the Way Down
The most successful machine of the eighteenth century was a cabinet with a person inside. Much of the AI stack still is.
Josef Chen · Braindumps
Braindumps on Europe, founders, hardware talent, and the occasional 800-year-old operating system.
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The Genghis Khan Operating System
Foxconn and TSMC are running an 800-year-old operating system. It conquered the world once. Here is how the West takes it back.
Cathedrals and Europe's Case for Forward Deployed Engineering
Europe's best companies don't scale by removing humans from the loop. They scale by putting engineers back on the factory floor.
Breaking Europe's Perfectionism Addiction
Europe trains perfect planners, Silicon Valley ships imperfect winners
Alone Together: Disconnection Is Our Generation's Black Death
The Black Death killed 100 million people in the 14th century, and it's happening again. Just like back then, none of us seem to know why.
Fixing Europe's broken patent system
How to Fight Innovation's Silent Killer | High costs, no flexibility, and lost ideas. Here's how simple reforms can fix it.
How breaking invisible family pacts forge unstoppable founders.
Why founders who defy family expectations become the most relentless ones
UK's elite hardware talent is being wasted
Imperial, Oxford, and Cambridge produce world-class engineers. Yet post-graduation, their trajectory is an economic tragedy - and a hidden arbitrage opportunity.