Sublime

describe an approach that focuses on building an “atomic network”—that is, the smallest possible network that is stable and can grow on its own.

Eugene Kleiner, moreover, a founding partner at the premier venture capital firm Kleiner Perkins, was originally hired by Bill Shockley at his ill-fated semiconductor company. But the Silicon Valley process that Kleiner helped develop was a different innovation model from Bell Labs. It was not a factory of ideas; it was a geography of ideas. It was

It traditionally assumed that firms were independent, and so changes would be independent, and so their sizes and aggregate effects would be distributed normally.

he helped start a research group called MIDAS, which stood for Mining Data at Stanford.

His seven-year-old brain fires and rewires, building arborized axons, dendrites, those tiny spreading trees.

There’s work to do. Star-work, but earthbound all the same.

Because no one was going to let us build experimental reactors in the real world, we set up a lab of supercomputers in Bellevue, Washington, where the team runs digital simulations of different reactor designs.