Interesting that there aren’t true tech think tanks where you could go work on speculative things. Chiices are: academia, industry, industrial/govt R&D labs with a productization expectation, or startup incubators. The best fit might actually be art residencies at museums.
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If he were in the US instead of Russia it would probably already have happened.
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Bunch of design people seem to try to do things in Bret Victor mode, but I think of design research as a weird special case between tech proper and product research. Product labs aren’t quite what I’m thinking of.
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I know like a dozen solo self-funded engineers doing this sort of thing. Not very collegial types.
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It’s probably an unstable zone because people who would do interesting things in such a position would also be strongly tempted away by big job offers. So you’d want people who don’t care about money, or have really unemployable personalities to outweigh their talents.
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Yours is still financially theoretical I presume, unless you already raised your funding

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