I sent the essay to some of my most prolific, creative friends, and they all resonated deeply. Faces materialized in my mind like photographs developing in solution. The indie hacker from Paris who has built four bootstrapped micro SaaS businesses with Loveable. Researchers in China taking apart viral closed-source products and launching... See more

While BBN was a private research firm and the CMU Robotics Institute was technically an academic group, when it came to operations and incentives, the two had more in common with each other than they did with many fellow companies or academic researchers. Both were:

• Novelty-seeking


• Committed to building useful prototypes and technology for users, not

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the workshop confronted a fundamental disconnect: the way we conduct science has changed, but the way we communicate it has not. Research today is iterative, computational, and collaborative. Yet, our outputs are still largely static PDFs, siloed data, and disconnected repositories. The workshop invited participants to break away from these... See more