Archive - Spectech Newsletter

Some open questions on the financial history of technology

A quest for those with the skill and daring...

Jul 15 •

June 2025

Brains Showcase 2025

And some meta-lessons

Jun 10 •

2:19

May 2025

[Announcement] AI Brains Q+A Sessions

You bring the questions, we'll bring the answers

May 27 •

Applications open for AI Brains

We want your [digital] Brains

May 13 •

April 2025

Humanoid Robots in Manufacturing

Or, there's a reason we don't pull cars with mechanical horses

Apr 8 •

March 2025

What does it mean for a technology to scale?

A particular failure mode that we’ve noticed among scientists and engineers doing ambitious technology research is ignoring the question “does this…

Mar 18 •

February 2025

Unbundling the University

An extended essay on the university, its history, pre-commercial research, and concrete actions to enable more awesome

Feb 11 •

January 2025

Meet the 2025 Brains Fellows

We’re excited to introduce the 2025 class of Brains Fellows!

Jan 30 •

Spectech Lessons and Updated Hypotheses from 2024

Things we got right, things we got wrong, and things we didn't know we didn't know

Jan 14 •

December 2024

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