Jason Crawford

Because if we want more breakthroughs like vaccines and transistors, I think we're going to need more folks like Pasteur, Bardeen, Brattain, and Shockley who combined science and invention.

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And I guess now we'll go to questions.

I haven't read what Hanson wrote on that.

Innovations are lumpy.

Yeah, that sounds accurate.

Mostly incremental.

Yes, that also sounds accurate.

I would recommend, there was a good blog post by angel investor and professor Jerry Newman.

His blog is...

actwheel.net, I think.

And he wrote a fascinating blog post called One Process, where he asked the question of, is it the case that there are two processes?

Like, I think it was what Thomas Kuhn, you know, who talked about the, you kind of got like the incremental science, and then you have the paradigm shifting revolutionary science.

And you can see some things like this in engineering as well, where we have these like,

you know, revolutionary advances like the transistor or the integrated circuit.

And then we have also a lot of just like incremental improvements and things.

And so Newman asked the question, are there two distinct processes that generate these two types of things, the revolutionary versus the incremental?