FreakTakes Substack by Eric Gilliam | Insights from Sidestack

FreakTakes

About the Substack

I want to help people start historically great labs. Operational histories on history's best R&D orgs.

About Eric Gilliam

As a researcher, I dive into the history of 20th Century innovation to understand how we can build better science and engineering institutions today. At RenPhil, I'm working to build more BBNs for the 21st Century.

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