Giving Tuesday
An excuse to support new institutions and an amazing future.
Today is “giving Tuesday.” I want to make a quick argument for why, of the 1.97 million nonprofits in the United States, you should support Speculative Technologies:
We’re fast, lean, and relentless. At Speculative Technologies, we obsess about how we can turn every dollar into impact that would not have happened without us. We have minimal overhead: right now a team of three people supports all of our programs. We move fast: last year we turned the Brains accelerator from an idea to a full cohort of fellows, mentors, and curriculum in four months.
We’re in a class of one. No other organization is filling the niche we’ve carved out: cutting-edge work in materials and manufacturing, designed explicitly to create public goods and unlock an abundant future.
It’s a vote for an amazing future. We’re unabashed in our goal of creating a world where you can have lunch in Tokyo and dinner in Lisbon; where you can read about (or do) unprecedented work happening on Mars or in the Asteroid Belt; where you can play basketball with your grandkids whose lives you expect to be far better than your own. Every dollar you give is a direct investment in making that world happen.
Social Proof. Our donors include many people you’ve heard of. (They have lots of things to do with their money so we don’t exactly have a huge warchest.) Today, Open Philanthropy suggested that individual donors donate to Spectech; we are their only suggestion under innovation.
We’re building for you, too. From donor-exclusive updates and technical seminars to fun, unexpected perks, we want you to feel like you’re part of the journey: today we published a compressed history of the university that is a draft of a section for an upcoming piece; we’re publishing physical copies of our Research Leader’s Playbook; and more.
If you’re ready to join us, you can do any of:
Buy a paid subscription by clicking the button below
Donate here (which also gets you a paid subscription) — we accept crypto too!
Email info@spec.tech if you’d like to provide more substantive support (research is unfortunately expensive).
Pass this on to a friend and provide some (good) peer pressure.