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Morris Chang and the Origins of TSMC

Reading List 12/28/24

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Energy Cheat Sheet

Reading List 12/14/24

What Learning by Doing Looks Like

Reading List 12/07/24

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How We Got the Lithium-ion Battery

Reading List 11/23/24

How Good Are American Roads?

Reading List 11/16/24

The Influence of Bell Labs

Reading List 11/9/24

Does All Semiconductor Manufacturing Depend on Spruce Pine Quartz?

How China Is Like the 19th Century U.S.

Will the China Cycle Come for Airbus and Boeing?

Chinese Commercial Aircraft Reading List

Port Automation Reading List

Do U.S. Ports Need More Automation?

Why the U.S. Can’t Build Icebreaking Ships

Shipbuilding and Icebreakers Reading List

Born Sleeping

The Long Road to Fiber Optics

Why Can't the U.S. Build Ships?

How to Build a 50,000 Ton Forging Press

Is Land-Use Regulation Holding Back Construction Productivity?

How California Turned Against Growth

California Growth Reading List

Why Levittown Didn't Revolutionize Homebuilding

What Would It Take to Recreate Bell Labs?

Bell Labs Reading List

Building the Bell System

Will We Ever Get Fusion Power?

Fusion Power Reading List

How to Build an AI Data Center

The Shape of Nuclear Policy

How to Build 300,000 Airplanes in Five Years

Will Stone Replace Steel and Concrete?

How to Build a $20 Billion Semiconductor Fab

Semiconductor fab reading list

The Katerra Team Rides Again: ONX Homes

What Progress Has Icon Made on 3D-Printed Homes?

What Makes Housing So Expensive?

Why Did Supersonic Airliners Fail?

Supersonic Air Travel Recommended Reading

Mass Timber is Great, but It Will Not Solve the Housing Shortage

Why Is It So Hard to Build an Airport?

Airport Reading List

How I Write Posts

How Valuable Are Building Methods That Use Fewer Materials?

A Cycle of Misery: The Business of Building Commercial Aircraft

Boeing Reading List

Machine Tool Reading List

What Happened to the US Machine Tool Industry?

What Progress Has There Been in Industrial Robots?

On Yglesias on Manufactured Homes