The whole country has suffered immensely from the incentive- and culture-shift that caused most schools to remove an array of shop and trade classes
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I think part of the reason so many US entrepreneurs are building companies where the product is software or new business models is that that's the stuff our culture seems to value. But we could *really* use more plays in hardware and industrial process improvement
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Right now, the kids who win at the education game are pretty likely to have never built anything beyond legos and camp/scout crafts; we're forgetting that physical products matter, and that a lot of them can't have wide margins of error and still be competitive or even usable
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I've flirted with the idea of a construction startup to try and rediscover the lost art of rapid, low-cost mass-scale building. Chrysler Building - 11 months, $287 million, 1046 ft Salesforce Tower - 5 years, $1.1 billion, 1070 ft
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"But they built to lower standards back then!" Not a single life was lost during construction, and in general buildings from that time are *overengineered* compared to today's: look at the time when a B-25 hit the Empire State Building...
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Great insight. farm kids were are a big part of this technical pool too, even in the 90's and early 00's. now disappearing too as farming industrialization completes.
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Meanwhile, in LA, tradesmen as so swamped with work that you can't even get them to return phonecalls
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It’s not a question of a skills gap, in fact the act of (properly) designing in these domains share a lot in common.
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There is less money in startups doing physical products. That is more important than bias in skool
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Yesyesyesyesyes!
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I think you're being optimistic to think they've even built camp/scout craft projects.
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And the production models are drastically different, with software-especially-as-a-service patches are ubiquitous, products do not need to be finished before they are released, there's no wood to protect! See Boeing
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The same elite that are building the software are the ones who set out to destroy the scouts. The scouts is dead.https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/social-issues/lawsuits-possible-bankruptcy-declining-members-is-there-a-future-for-the-boy-scouts/2019/09/11/54699d6a-ce53-11e9-8c1c-7c8ee785b855_story.html …
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