46 // Industrial research with Peter van Hardenberg

Ink & Switch is a research lab inspired by Bells Labs and Xerox PARC. Peter is lab director, and he joins Mark to discuss DARPA-hard problems; the Ink & Switch academic-meets-web essay format; and how an independent research lab can fund itself through a spinout flywheel. Plus: Mendel and his peas, Thoreau and his ants, and the Arrakis attitude of the knife. @MuseAppHQ [email protected] Show notes Peter van Hardenberg @pvh Ink & Switch hydroponic gardening computer vision knight’s movement in chess efficient frontier Peritext Dynamicland Seinfeld calendar Zettelkasten rich text Metamuse episode with Geoffrey Litt Metamuse episode with Linus Lee “Arrakis teaches the attitude of the knife […] It’s complete because it’s ended here.” DARPA Richard Hamming National Science Foundation prime number theorum Ben Reinhardt on innovation orgs Bell Labs list of inventions flywheel Gregor Mendel’s experiments with pea plants “It’s not enough to be busy; so are the ants. The question is: what are we busy about?” DARPA autonomous vehicles contest and prize DARPA hard Gordon Brander pre-infusion Yjs the Hollywood model Martin Kleppmann Code for America no plan survives first contact with the enemy “pencils down” peer review citation