@kylebirchard.bsky.social
Founder of Resight Laboratories, Inc. Writer of tonewood.leaflet.pub
New Tonewood Project post. Published w/ @leaflet.pub: tonewood.leaflet.pub/3lwwhopsvp22e Subscribe to keep up with the stories!
21.08.2025 17:42 β π 1 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0
Updated this list with a few more participants in our @leaflet.pub summer blog club! I'm overdue for a new post in my own blog(s) but lots of fun so far, cool to see ppl publishing!
If I'm missing anyone who'd like to be included please lmk :)
summer-of-pub.leaflet.pub/3luns266ud22b
Want to join *Summer of Pub* (our lil Leaflet blog club) and commit to publishing more regularly, but could use some ideas to kickstart your creative energy?
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We made a collection of fun blogging prompts!
Finally getting something off the ground I've been working on for a little while...
12.08.2025 18:13 β π 5 π 0 π¬ 0 π 1
Whatβs a technology that you think is overhyped? Iβm going to give a sideways answer to this, which is that the venture capital business model needs to be understood as requiring hype. You can go back to the Netscape IPO, and that was the proof point that made venture capital the financial lifeblood of the tech industry. Venture capital looks at valuations and growth, not necessarily at profit or revenue. So you donβt actually have to invest in technology that works, or that even makes a profit, you simply have to have a narrative that is compelling enough to float those valuations. So you see this repetitive and exhausting hype cycle as a feature in this industry. A couple of years ago, you would have been asking me about the metaverse, then last year, you would have asked me about Web3 and crypto, and for each of these inflection points thereβs an Andreessen Horowitz manifesto. Itβs not simply that one piece of technology is overhyped, itβs that hype is a necessary ingredient of the current business ecosystem of the tech industry. We should examine how often the financial incentive for hype is rewarded without any real social returns, without any meaningful progress in technology, without these tools and services and worlds ever actually manifesting. Thatβs key to understanding the growing chasm between the narrative of techno-optimists and the reality of our tech-encumbered world.
Stand by this: www.politico.com/newsletters/...
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Whatβs the return on government support for R&D?
To try to get a credible answer, Open Philanthropy and the Sloan Foundation are committing up to $1 million to trying something new: we call it a Pop-Up Journal.
I've started a website with simple graphs tracking how the US economy is doing in terms of unemployment, economic sentiment, and inflation. It will be updated monthly as new data come in. Feedback is welcome! #EconSky
usbarometer.com
I got hit by some rather sudden and extreme financial hardship so if anyone is in need of remote wetlab contract research, strictly BSL1, do let me know. Currently scrambling for gigs.
Plant, Bacterial, Archaeal Non-model Bioeng
Custom Lab Hardware
Turn Key Genetic Design
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Power, Obligation and the Universities talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/power...
11.04.2025 18:42 β π 239 π 50 π¬ 11 π 11
@wyden.senate.gov @repdexteror.bsky.social @jeff-merkley.bsky.social
03.02.2025 04:22 β π 3 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
First in a new series: resightlabs.com/thinking-at-...
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