The system that funds, builds, and deploys technology is not broken. It is short-term. Last year a founder walked me through a robotics system built for work that damages people. She had video from a facility floor: the same motion, performed thousands of times a shift, by people who had
Deep tech risk isn't higher than software risk. It's structurally different. Nine tumblers that multiply, not add. But the same compounding that punishes carelessness rewards discipline. The framework exists.
We're forming daily relationships with systems that don't just agree with us when challenged, but inflate our thinking unprompted. There are two distinct problems here, and most commentary collapses them into one. They compound.