Notes.
I'm officially wed :)
There will still be a newsletter next week, but it won't from me. Eric, take the mic!
Pathfinding.
- Bryce Harper's XOXO talk on Indie.VC. It is insane that so many startups end up taking VC money that works so poorly for them.
- A good opinion piece on Tesla's self-driving car ambitions.
- Y Combinator is starting a research arm.
- Some crazy stats on how much Intel spends on R&D.
Building.
- An investment manager in Brooklyn Heights repaints city property (trash cans, fire hydrants, etc) in his free time.
- IBM figured out how to make carbon nanotube transistors.
- SolarCity has apparently made the most efficient (power per dollar) solar panels.
- New York State and Norsk Titanium are building a $125M titanium 3D printing plant in upstate New York.
- 3D Hubs launched their "HD" service for professional grade plastic printing. I'm hoping for metal stuff soon :)
Logistics.
- During the hurricane last week, a whole ship - the El Faro - was lost at sea, and nobody's found it yet. That's pretty rare.
Evaluation.
- It's far from obvious that recycling is a good thing for people to focus on. (This article is controversial. All I'm saying is, it's worth questioning your assumptions every once in a while. Also I still think we should be using pneumatic tubes for trash.)
- A really incredible infographic from the NYTimes on how OPEC and US shale gas have driven oil prices.
- Nicola Twilley on the amount of Earth life (microbes) that we've brought to Mars already.
Stuff that doesn't fit into my dumb/arbitrary categories.
- A piece on my friends at Addaero.
- This story on these two guys whose job it is to drive people home from prison is pretty intense.
And.
<3
Love, Spencer.
p.s. - We should be better friends. Send me a note - coffee's on me :) (Just not in the next two weeks!)
