#063 Turning Discoveries Into Companies with Sam Arbesman of Lux Capital

Topics:
(00:04:26) - Who are your influences?
(00:08:57) - When Facts Expire: The Half-life of Knowledge
(00:22:57) - The Playbook behind Boston Dynamics and DeepMind
(00:28:36) - Research Orgs other than Academia, Govt, and Industry
(00:31:00) - DARPA and Speculative Technologies
(00:39:08) - Ink & Switch
(00:41:13) - Challenges of University Tech Transfer Offices
(00:47:42) - Transforming the future of Education
(00:52:20) - Using AI tools in day-to-day life
(00:55:40) - Sam’s job at Lux Capital
(00:58:07) - Overperforming and Underperforming Technologies
(01:02:33) - What mental models do you use most frequently?
(01:03:45) - How to corner the market on a high-tech skillset
(01:05:40) - Industries you’re watching that no one else is paying attention to?
(01:07:41) - Sci-Fi book recommendations

Links for more on Sam:
Sam on Tedx: The Half-Life of Facts (youtube.com/watch?v=GaxYnvd7YAM)
Sam’s books (amazon.com/stores/Samuel-Arbesman/author/B00C8…)
Sam’s Website (arbesman.net)

Companies Mentioned:
Boston Dynamics (bostondynamics.com)
DeepMind (deepmind.com)
DARPA (darpa.mil)
Speculative Technologies (spec.tech)
The Foresight Institute (foresight.org)

Books Mentioned:
Why Greatness Cannot be Planned by Ken Stanley (amazon.com/Why-Greatness-Cannot-Planned-Object…)
The Three-Body Problem Trilogy by Cixin Liu (amazon.com/Three-Body-Problem-Boxed-Set-Rememb…)
Neal Stephenson Books (nealstephenson.com/books)
Culture series by Iain Banks (goodreads.com/series/49118-culture)
Babel by R. F Kuang (amazon.com/Babel-Necessity-Violence-Translator…)
Foundation by Isaac Asimov (amazon.com/Foundation-Isaac-Asimov/dp/0553293354)
Don Swanson - Undiscovered Public Knowledge (jstor.org/stable/4307965)
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