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July 2023
An Alternative Approach to Deep Tech VC
Marrying early YC's goals with systems from the mid-20th C. deep tech pipeline
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Eric Gilliam
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May 2023
How Recent Innovation in Jiu-jitsu Helps Us Think About OpenAI’s Future
Check out my guest post for the ChinaTalk Substack on recent innovation in the sport of jiu-jitsu and how it can help us think about OpenAI’s future. In…
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Eric Gilliam
Math and Physics’ Divorce, Poetry, and the Scientific Slowdown
An alternative hypothesis to the 'burden of knowledge' theory of the slowdown
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Eric Gilliam
10
Thomas Edison, Technical Entrepreneur
My piece in Works in Progress
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Eric Gilliam
2
April 2023
Tales of Edison's Lab
Listen now (57 mins) | What was it truly like inside the great man's lab?
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Eric Gilliam
2
Bonus: More details on how Bell Labs operated
This was initially a section of my larger Bell Labs post. It would have come between the “Freedom comes in many forms” and “The mobile phone system…
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Eric Gilliam
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
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Eric Gilliam
3
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…
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Eric Gilliam
December 2022
November 2022
How fast can a bureaucracy grow in a government scientific department?
Also: why the ‘burden of knowledge’ might be more of a social problem than a knowledge problem
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Eric Gilliam
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