Critical Path
Spencer PruittCritical Path explores the breakthroughs shaping our future and the individuals who make them matter. From artificial intelligence and energy to policy, industry, and leadership, we examine how technology and people together decide the course of nations.
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The World is Not a WebApp
The World is Not a WebApp
Marc Andreessen’s 2011 essay “Why Software Is Eating the World” made an observation that turned out to be largely correct. Software really did transform industry after industry. Bookstores, taxis, hotels, bankin...
The War in Iran Is Not the Blunder You Think It Is
I’ve seen some brazenly shallow takes on the left-leaning side of the media coverage surrounding the Trump administration’s highly illegal engagement in Iran. The argument more or less goes like this:
1. The Trump Administration believed...
Neither Side Can Win This Online War
I have spent the past decade as a regular contributor on social media; outside of times times when I was cut off from my phone while serving on a nuclear submarine, there has hardly been a day I haven’t logged on since 2008. Social media ha...
Buckets, Integrity, and the Constitution
When I enlisted in late 2012, the world was a very different place. President Obama had just won his second term in office, the Higgs Boson was discovered, and the Curiosity Rover landed on Mars. Despite my naivety as a young 18-year-old, I...
Stop Crying Over Spilled Sample Bottles
On a nuclear submarine, there is no such concept as “move fast and break things.”
The classic Silicon Valley idiom makes its priorities clear: speed of iteration outweighs the stability of what exists right now. In the Naval Nuclear Propul...
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Spencer Pruitt is a Navy veteran, small business owner, and otherwise boring person who writes about American problems and what we can do about it.
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