Spencer Burleigh

Airline route networks really fascinate me.

Doing the work only you can do is the best way to change the world.

Vertical integration is a very under-explored modality of technological progress Peter Thiel Everyone says not to start a commodity business.

Solar keeps getting better.

Being a founder requires many skills.

How instant quoting is reshaping machine shops — and where the real money is going.

But Rung, you're rich — you’ve got everything.

I just saw a Tweet for how Basic Capital can help you 5x the size of your retirement portfolio by borrowing money.

If a capitalist had been present at Kitty Hawk back in the early 1900s, he should have shot Orville Wright; he would have saved his progeny money. - Warren Buffett The airline business is brutal.

I wrote this essay back in school after spending months interviewing veterans and poring over declassified mission logs from the squadron my grandfather flew 100+ missions with during the Vietnam War.

I wrote the following essay as a school research project into the Cold-War race for civil supersonic flight.

As politicians on both side thunder about ending, auditing or increasing the President’s authority over the Federal Reserve, it’s easy to forget we’ve fought this war before.

I generally believe that good startup (and product) names are short, fairly easy to remember / spell, somewhat distinctive, and you can buy the .com / .ai domain name.

We wrote this guide to complement Spencer’s popular “Founder’s Guide to Hiring an Operations Team in the Philippines.”

I wrote this guide to help founders navigate the uncertainties of their financial lives.

This guide is for a mainly US (possibly Canadian) audience who travels to much less developed countries in (generally) Africa, Asia, and South America and wants to save thousands of dollars by getting their travel vaccines at Costco’s Pharmacy.

I wrote this guide to help founders get the most from their business and personal spending.

A cost of $1/m3 for seawater desalination and $0.6/m3 for brackish water would be feasible today.

I wrote this guide to help founders work with global talent (generally in the Philippines).

This is a list of the difficulty I perceive it to be to travel (as an English speaking American) to different parts of the world that I have been to or am familiar with.

Founders spend their days putting out fires.

In 2018 I co-founded Pippin, a housing factory startup, and our backyard home (ADU) brand Rent the Backyard.

Gramps died last night.

I spent a bit of the holiday season in Japan visiting friends and riding the Shinkansen (bullet train).

While the usual suspects ended up buying a handful of A380s due to national pressure (Lufthansa, Air France, British Airways), delusions of grandeur (Malaysia, Thai), or me-too syndrome (Asiana, Etihad, Qatar), there was really only one airline that truly…

How did all this get financed?

English please - A waiter at this really yummy pub in Bratislava, Slovakia, the other day after I asked if he preferred English or German I know Slovakians speak Slovak.

Do you have a view?

But we believe our first duty is to this country, and the president continues to act in a manner that is detrimental to the health of our republic. - New York Times Anonymous Oped this Week One of Daron Acemoglu and James Robinson’s overarching theses in…

We won’t put advertisements in your personal communication — things like Snaps or Chats.

In China, there are only fifty-six legally defined minzu [hard to translate but basically nationality/race] one indicated on every citizen’s identity card… - Peter C.

Saudi Arabia expelled Canada’s ambassador, froze trade with the country and will reportedly dump its Canadian investments.

The Soviet Communist dictatorship, like any other system, seeks to preserve its own existence.

I’m in Germany this week and the Airbnb we’re staying at in Berlin overlooks the Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe.

And I believe we have no choice but to move forward, that those of us who believe in democracy and civil rights and a common humanity have a better story to tell.

Interesting post on society’s tendency to focus on successes rather than failures.

In Event of Moon Disaster: Fate has ordained that the men who went to the moon to explore in peace will stay on the moon to rest in peace.

No one has a Suzuki tattoo" [1] - a nugget from an otherwise so-so Medium article The numbers are clear though.

When there was peace, he was for peace: when there was war, he went. - The Unknown Citizen: WH Auden, 1939 WH Auden’s The Unknown Citizen is a cynical response to perceived bureaucratic encroach by western governments in the 1930s so this is admittedly a…

People wonder why their daughter is taking 10,000 photos a day.

There is no such thing as Rohingya, It is fake news. - U Kyaw San Hla: officer in Rakhine state security ministry.

The South Korean constitution recognizes all Koreans as its citizens. - An interesting Reuters article I didn’t have a quote in mind with which to really start this blog and going from zero to one is tough, so I checked the front page of Wikipedia.

Dad I'm going to start a blog. - me the other day I spend a lot of my time reading.