Alan Simon

Curious. Listening. Leading. An optimistic and determined problem-solver, collaborating to build fast and get things done in America. Investing: @AcequiaCapital

[Alan Simon @SlashSimon]

@isaiah_p_taylor Impressive! We know what comes next.

[Alan Simon @SlashSimon]

Pay attention to @rob_zedd and @AskariDefense!

[Robbie van Zyl @rob_zedd]

Pretty sure I have the coolest job ever: get to build cool technology, save lives, serve our nation, work alongside mission critical/passionate team members, building an already almost infinite money glitch (sales from our products), all with limited supervision and the ability to tackle seemingly crazy challenges.

[Alan Simon @SlashSimon]

Modern capacity to build bicycles in the U.S. is very important in relation to reindustrialization.

Looking back in history, American bicycle companies helped out during WWII. Schwinn reduced civilian bicycle production during the war and produced military-related goods and precision metal components. Others, like Columbia Bicycles used their production equipment and capacity to support war efforts.

[The Ways of A Gentleman @Gentleman_Ways]

Magnificent advice here from @BillAckman.

“Just make a little progress every day.”

Whatever it is you are facing, make a little progress today. Keep pushing!

[Odelia Energy @odeliaenergy]

FOUR NUCLEAR STARTUPS JUST WON ACCESS TO THREE NATIONAL LABS

THIRD ROUND FY26 RECIPIENTS

· @AaloAtomics (Austin, TX) will work with Idaho National Laboratory on modifications to its EMRALD modeling tool, aimed at supporting economic and generational risk analysis for reactor design decisions.

· OrganiCore Nuclear (New York, NY) will partner with Oak Ridge National Laboratory on design-enabling nuclear data evaluation.

· Raven-Flint Nuclear Corp (Idaho Falls, ID) will collaborate with Idaho National Laboratory on a domestic uranium conversion approach the announcement calls a "ZeroF Process."

· Srijan LLC (College Station, TX) will work with Sandia National Laboratory to address fabrication challenges for a new semiconductor neutron detector for advanced nuclear power plants.

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GAIN vouchers are capability access, not grants. Each awardee still covers a minimum 20 percent of project cost, in-kind allowed, which keeps the bar real even though no cash is wired. This round skews toward fuel cycle and instrumentation problems rather than reactor design itself, which may say more about where the bottlenecks are than about any one company's profile.

Is GAIN becoming the real onramp for the nuclear supply chain's long tail, not the reactor primes everyone watches?

[Alan Simon @SlashSimon]

@TheBierwith IYKYK!

[Isaiah Mears @IsaiahMears]

America has roughly 12M manufacturing workers.

China has 100M+.

Yet the U.S. produces vastly more value per worker. We build more valuable, more sophisticated products with a far more productive workforce.

That’s always been our edge.

Talent is the real bottleneck. Factories don’t scale without people who know how to build.

The old gov. or institutional grant model (train a few thousand over years, hope for placement) is too slow.

People like @codyaims and the Skill Factory team are building the right playbook: scalable, project-based, direct placement into high-leverage roles. WITH SPEED. Real throughput.

We should go even bigger. We have elite pipelines for technologists at places like Stanford - why not a dedicated program for the next generation of industrialists and builders who turn ideas into physical reality at scale?

[Alan Simon @SlashSimon]

@mackhopen What’s interesting is that many of the Westinghouse reactors built in the 1960s–1980s were completed on time and within original budgets. So, success is certainly possible with this new approach.

[Alan Simon @SlashSimon]

@EdwardMehr Yes, King!

[Atoms Not Bits @AtomsNotBits]

Exclusive Interview: What if defense integration took days instead of years?

At Operation Jailbreak, we got a glimpse.

Dr. Daniel Gonzalez from @allencontrol walked us through how Bullfrog’s counter-UAS turret was mounted on an AZAK platform, cued by @LeonardoDRSnews radar from a companion vehicle, linked by @Picogrid, tasked through Anduril Lattice, and driven by @HavocAi_USV autonomy.

[Sheel Mohnot @pitdesi]

This bill is a huge win for the abundance movement.

It passed the Senate 85–5 and the House 358–32.

Finally, a serious federal housing bill focused on supply instead of subsidies!

The bill:

• Streamlines permitting
• Cuts red tape
• Supports manufactured and modular housing
• Pushes local governments toward zoning reform
• Improves housing finance tools
• Helps smaller banks make construction and mortgage loans
• Gives cities more incentive to actually build homes

That matters because almost everything is downstream of housing.

Where people can live determines where they can work, who they can marry, how many kids they can have, how long their commute is, whether they can save money, whether startups can hire, whether cities stay dynamic, and whether the American dream still works.

In general, we made it too hard, too slow, and too expensive to build homes where people want to live. Then we acted shocked when prices exploded.

The best part of this bill to me is the signal that both parties are finally admitting that supply matters.

The real villain for all of us is scarcity!

V V cool that housing abundance is no longer a niche YIMBY idea on twitter.

[Adams @Adams_Tech_AI]

I come to watch this whenever I feel lost.

[juju 💰 @ayeejuju]

wait why not?

[Astronomy Vibes @AstronomyVibes]

The electron’s minimum lifespan is 5 quintillion times longer than the current age of the cosmos.

Electrons are the ultimate survivors of the subatomic world, boasting a minimum lifespan of 66,000 yottayears—a duration so vast it effectively defies human comprehension.

To put that into perspective, these fundamental particles are expected to outlast the current age of the universe by a factor of five quintillion. While humanity measures history in centuries, electrons operate on a scale that makes the 13.8 billion years since the Big Bang look like a mere blink of an eye.

This extreme longevity is the bedrock of physical reality, ensuring that the atoms forming our world remain stable and intact across cosmic eons.

The secret to this relative immortality lies in the fundamental laws of physics, specifically the conservation of electrical charge.

Because the electron is the lightest particle with a negative charge, it has no lower state to decay into without violating core physical principles. High-precision experiments, such as those conducted with the Borexino detector, have failed to witness a single electron perish, leading many physicists to believe they may be perfectly stable and live forever. This cosmic endurance guarantees that as long as these laws hold, the building blocks of matter will provide a permanent, unchanging foundation for the universe as we know it.

source: BBC Science Focus Magazine. (2025). How long do electrons live? BBC Science Focus Magazine.

[Dan Goldin @dansgoldin]

Hey @elonmusk and @NASAAdmin, why wait for the future to expand the thought process for making antimatter propulsion a reality.

During the 90’s I worked with Sam Ting to develop the Advanced Magnetic Spectrometer (AMS) technology so it could probe the heavens for antimatter and other elemental particles.

We flew a development unit (AMS-01) on the Shuttle in 1998 and the great NASA spaceflight team installed Sam Tings brilliant operational (AMS-02) on the International Space Station in 2011.

In a few months the NASA spaceflight team will upgrade AMS-02 on orbit to refresh its capability. In a call yesterday, Sam told me it is still yielding exciting results.

In parallel, we’re beginning to see the initiation of serious theoretical work in antimatter propulsion. Research is advancing from broad speculation to detailed architectural studies.

It will take time but under NASA’s leadership we need to intensify the American focus onto antimatter propulsion research.

It’s impactful time is coming!

[Chris Powers @fortworthchris]

Reindustrialize X is one of the most fun follows right now.

They’re not just willing to build hard things — they're delighting in it.

By far the most patriotic, America-first group of entrepreneurs I’ve seen in a long time.

Long America! 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸

[Annie Yang @annieqyang]

The most dangerous person in the age of AI is someone who was mediocre at coding but has taste, and can now build anything

[Kekius Maximus @Kekius_Sage]

Einstein’s weirdest idea wasn’t that space bends.

It’s that time bends too, and gravity is mostly the time part.

When you fall toward Earth, you’re not being pulled by a force. You’re moving through a region where time runs slower, and your natural path through spacetime curves toward it.

You don’t fall because Earth pulls you.

You fall because the future is slightly closer near the ground.

[Alan Simon @SlashSimon]

@msuster @upfrontvc This is a great opportunity for someone who is high agency and wants to learn and grow!

[Nav Toor @heynavtoor]

There is an old laptop in your closet.

Gathering dust. Dead battery. Slow processor. You keep it because you feel guilty throwing it away.

That laptop can replace every cloud subscription you pay for.

- Netflix
- Google
- Dropbox
- 1Password

That is $42 a month. $504 a year. To rent things you used to own.

The old laptop in your closet could do all of it.

Now meet CasaOS.

A free and open source system that turns any old laptop, Raspberry Pi, or mini PC into your own personal cloud.

You run one command. In 30 minutes, the laptop becomes a server. You open it from your phone, your TV, your work computer, anywhere in the world.

Then you pick the apps you want from a built-in store. One click each.

- Jellyfin to replace Netflix. Stream every movie and show you own.
- Immich to replace Google Photos. Faces and search included.
- Nextcloud to replace Dropbox. Sync every file across every device.
- Vaultwarden to replace 1Password. All your passwords, your keys.
- Syncthing to keep files in sync across every device, no cloud.
- Home Assistant to control every smart device in your home.
- AdGuard to block ads on every device on your wifi.

Setting up a home server the old way took an entire weekend. Install Linux. Learn Docker. Write config files. Set up storage. Fix errors. Look up every app one by one.

CasaOS does all of that for you. No code. No config files. No Linux skills. You see icons on a screen. You click them.

34,116 stars on GitHub. Apache 2.0. Free forever.

Built by a small team starting September 2021. Runs on Raspberry Pi, Intel NUC, old laptops, and most home servers. Over 100,000 Docker apps can be installed.

A new Raspberry Pi costs $50. The old laptop in your closet costs $0. It already works. It is already in your house.

Netflix charges every month. CasaOS doesn't.
Google charges every month. CasaOS doesn't.
Dropbox charges every month. CasaOS doesn't.
1Password charges every month. CasaOS doesn't.

Here is the wild part.

The laptop you forgot about is more powerful than the web server that ran most websites in 2008.

It is sitting in a drawer. It costs you nothing. It already works.

One command. Thirty minutes. Five hundred dollars a year back in your pocket.

Your files. Your photos. Your movies. Your home.

Your closet just became a data center.