# optimist (blogs) — RSS Amplifier Recent posts from the 3 feeds in the RSS Amplifier directory that cover optimist. Page: Feed: --- ## [New Podcast: America’s manufacturing crisis isn’t what you think](https://rationaloptimistsociety.substack.com/p/new-podcast-americas-manufacturing) _2026-08-19 · Stephen McBride · Rational Optimist Society_ With Dirac cofounder and CEO Fil Aronshtein ## [The Rockefeller of solar](https://rationaloptimistsociety.substack.com/p/the-rockefeller-of-solar) _2026-08-16 · Stephen McBride · Rational Optimist Society_ No drilling required ## [Ridley: Consensus is another word for groupthink](https://rationaloptimistsociety.substack.com/p/ridley-consensus-is-another-word) _2026-08-13 · Matt Ridley · Rational Optimist Society_ Blood-letting. Freud. Climate science… ## [New Podcast: Is embryo selection eugenics?](https://rationaloptimistsociety.substack.com/p/new-podcast-is-embryo-selection-eugenics) _2026-08-12 · Stephen McBride · Rational Optimist Society_ With Herasight cofounder Jonathan Anomaly ## [I found the American dream… in China](https://rationaloptimistsociety.substack.com/p/make-america-manufacture-again) _2026-08-09 · Stephen McBride · Rational Optimist Society_ Decline and renaissance in El Segundo ## [Ridley: The unspoken truth about wildfires](https://rationaloptimistsociety.substack.com/p/ridley-the-unspoken-truth-about-wildfires) _2026-08-05 · Matt Ridley · Rational Optimist Society_ Awkward for those blaming climate change… ## [🌊 Summertime is here 2026 - get rest](https://newsletter.optimistengineer.com/p/summertime-is-here-2026-get-rest) _2026-08-05 · Marcos F. Lobo 🗻🧭 · The Optimist Engineer_ August will be entirely for resting and recharging energy. You must do as well. ## [New Podcast: The startup turning a volcano into jet fuel](https://rationaloptimistsociety.substack.com/p/new-podcast-the-secret-to-clean-energy) _2026-08-05 · Stephen McBride · Rational Optimist Society_ With Syntholene cofounder and CEO Dan Sutton ## [Building an Enterprise MCP Platform - Vol. III: Ironclad Access & Security](https://newsletter.optimistengineer.com/p/building-an-enterprise-mcp-platform-594) _2026-08-04 · Marcos F. Lobo 🗻🧭 · The Optimist Engineer_ Tackling the critical challenges of authentication, authorization, and secure governance for internal AI protocol servers at scale. ## [Quiet skies aren’t free](https://rationaloptimistsociety.substack.com/p/optimists-build-missile-factories) _2026-08-02 · Stephen McBride · Rational Optimist Society_ America’s Achilles heel ## [Try Before You Buy, Risk-Free (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/dof4rXvBSR2x) _2026-08-02 · **Sponsored**_ Free trial hosting plus refunds processed in 12-24 hours, guaranteed. ## [Ridley: Don't tell other people how to flourish](https://rationaloptimistsociety.substack.com/p/ridley-dont-tell-other-people-how) _2026-07-29 · Matt Ridley · Rational Optimist Society_ The problem isn't left-wingery but top-downery ## [Introducing: Optimists Make Money](https://rationaloptimistsociety.substack.com/p/introducing-optimists-make-money-97b) _2026-07-29 · Stephen McBride · Rational Optimist Society_ Watch our first episode on asteroid mining ## [Building an Enterprise MCP Platform - Vol. II: Zero-Friction Delivery](https://newsletter.optimistengineer.com/p/building-an-enterprise-mcp-platform-67e) _2026-07-21 · Marcos F. Lobo 🗻🧭 · The Optimist Engineer_ How to automate the lifecycle of your MCP servers and establish a seamless pipeline from a developer's repository straight to production. ## [Building an Enterprise MCP Platform - Vol. I: Keep Deployment Simple](https://newsletter.optimistengineer.com/p/building-an-enterprise-mcp-platform) _2026-07-14 · Marcos F. Lobo 🗻🧭 · The Optimist Engineer_ Moving past local terminal setups to build a centralized cloud infrastructure that scales across your entire organization without over-engineering. ## [How to ship software with confidence - The Pillars](https://newsletter.optimistengineer.com/p/how-to-ship-software-with-confidence) _2026-07-08 · Marcos F. Lobo 🗻🧭 · The Optimist Engineer_ The pillars for making releases without feeling like you're gambling with a coin every Friday afternoon. ## [Flipping the hiring funnel from code generation to system architecture](https://newsletter.optimistengineer.com/p/flipping-the-hiring-funnel-from-code) _2026-07-02 · Marcos F. Lobo 🗻🧭 · The Optimist Engineer_ How to restructure your technical evaluation to find engineers who think about dependencies rather than typing speed. ## [Stop Building Distributed Monoliths: How to Find Real Business Boundaries](https://newsletter.optimistengineer.com/p/stop-building-distributed-monoliths) _2026-06-24 · Marcos F. Lobo 🗻🧭 · The Optimist Engineer_ How to avoid technical coupling and design independent software that match your organization. ## [Shifting left your effort when working with AI](https://newsletter.optimistengineer.com/p/shifting-left-your-effort-when-working) _2026-06-17 · Marcos F. Lobo 🗻🧭 · The Optimist Engineer_ When you start working with AI, more code is generated, and many more pull requests need to be reviewed. That's your bottleneck today, right? Let me tell you how to solve that problem. ## [The importance of adapting the message to the listener](https://newsletter.optimistengineer.com/p/the-importance-of-adapting-the-message) _2026-06-11 · Marcos F. Lobo 🗻🧭 · The Optimist Engineer_ Have you ever struggled in a meeting because the conversation deviated from the original purpose? Maybe your message was not meant for your target person in that meeting ## [Stop CI/CD & Supply-Chain Attacks (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/h9M6YrpaRkIV) _2026-06-11 · **Sponsored**_ Per-PR: 17 CI/CD checks and package malware scans with inline Check Run findings. ## [Scale Up your Start Up](https://newsletter.optimistengineer.com/p/scale-up-your-start-up) _2026-06-03 · Marcos F. Lobo 🗻🧭 · The Optimist Engineer_ Compilation of lessons for scaling up your Start Up