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An Alternative Approach to Deep Tech VC
Marrying early YC's goals with systems from the mid-20th C. deep tech pipeline
Jul 13, 2023
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Eric Gilliam
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May 2023
Math and Physics’ Divorce, Poetry, and the Scientific Slowdown
An alternative hypothesis to the 'burden of knowledge' theory of the slowdown
May 25, 2023
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Eric Gilliam
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Thomas Edison, Technical Entrepreneur
My piece in Works in Progress
May 23, 2023
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Eric Gilliam
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April 2023
How did places like Bell Labs know how to ask the right questions?
Alternative Title: Why all applied research organizations should hire a Bell-style systems engineer
Apr 20, 2023
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Eric Gilliam
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January 2023
A Report on Scientific Branch-Creation: How the Rockefeller Foundation helped bootstrap the field of molecular biology
This piece is noticeably longer (twice the length) than the others on this Substack. This is because 1) it is a practically-oriented historical…
Jan 12, 2023
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Eric Gilliam
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December 2022
What would you like to know about how the new science orgs are run?
Hey Team! As you know, a lot of what I do is outline the details of how scientific systems and research institutes of the past worked. Tomorrow,…
Dec 12, 2022
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Eric Gilliam
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October 2022
Irving Langmuir, the General Electric Research Laboratory, and when applications lead to theory
To this point, I’ve written tens of thousands of words on this Substack covering the work of scientists from the early-to-mid-1900s — a golden era of…
Oct 21, 2022
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Eric Gilliam
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How Karl Compton believed a research department should be run
And how DeepMind might be doing it
Oct 4, 2022
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Eric Gilliam
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August 2022
A Progress Studies History of Early MIT — Part 3: The end of the beginning
Each piece in the MIT series can stand alone for the most part, but I’ve written them in such a way that they build off each other. So, I’d recommend…
Aug 26, 2022
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Eric Gilliam
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July 2022
A Progress Studies History of Early MIT— Part 2: An Industrial Research Powerhouse
Each piece in the MIT series can stand alone for the most part, but I’ve written them in such a way that they build off each other. So, I’d recommend…
Jul 30, 2022
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Eric Gilliam
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A Progress Studies History of Early MIT — Part 1: Training the engineers who built the country
The MIT Series Patrick Collison and Tyler Cowen opened their 2019 Atlantic piece that helped jump-start the progress studies movement with the following…
Jul 28, 2022
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Eric Gilliam
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Coming pieces from the Engineering Innovation Substack
And a piece you might love that you probably missed
Jul 13, 2022
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Eric Gilliam
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