Things are almost always more complicated than they seem.

<p><strong>A quick favor: please subscribe to not boring radio on <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6CVuzQvJ-Ys" rel="nofollow">YouTube</a> and <a href="https://open.spotify.com/episode/0v08AWfp7oW276LZVYUktd?si=FN2ZzZOCSOex1YBEPmnOEg" rel="nofollow">Spotify</a> 🙏</strong></p><div><hr></div><p>Hi friends 👋,</p><p>Happy Sunday! </p><p>If you’ve been reading Not Boring for a while, you’ll know the name <span></span>. When I write about building hard things in the physical world, I often lean on his work to understand the history and details. </p><p>When I originally wrote about Base Power Company, I cited him three times, and used his excellent four-part series on <a href="https://www.construction-physics.com/p/the-birth-of-the-grid" rel="nofollow">The Grid</a> to understand the workings of that “single enormous machine that spanned from coast to coast (exclusive of Texas).”</p><p>When I wrote about <a href="https://www.notboring.co/p/cuby-the-house-factory-factory" rel="nofollow">Cuby</a>, I used multiple of his essays, including <a href="https://www.construction-physics.com/p/another-day-in-katerradise" rel="nofollow">Another Day in Katerradise</a>, about his experience at and lessons from working at the Softbank-backed home manufacturing startup, as well as his more technical <em><a href="https://www.construction-physics.com/p/logistics-production-volume-and-industrialized" rel="nofollow">Logistics, Production Volume, and Industrialized Building</a> </em>and others. I leaned on him so heavily for that one that I even thanked him at the end. </p><div><figure><a href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F054ed5b7-9133-471f-933c-afe5c15b8870_908x227.png" rel="nofollow"><div><picture><source><img src="https://static.fwimg.io/img/feed/ee183bbd2f544a5f95134c07fb53328a.jpg" alt=""></source></picture><div></div></div></a></figure></div><p>I’ve mentioned his <a href="https://www.construction-physics.com/p/how-did-solar-power-get-cheap-part" rel="nofollow">series on how solar power got so cheap</a> numerous times, and we’ve probably included various essays from his newsletter, <em>Construction Physics, </em>in half a dozen Weekly Doses of Optimism. </p><p>As you can tell, I think <em><a href="https://www.construction-physics.com/" rel="nofollow">Construction Physics</a></em> is a national treasure.</p><div><figure><a href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F8f565b32-c878-47ba-8081-cb69a1bacead_808x510.png" rel="nofollow"><div><picture><source><img src="https://static.fwimg.io/img/feed/df6525c576ccdc3dbc822a5d26628205.jpg" alt=""></source></picture><div></div></div></a><figcaption><em><a href="https://x.com/packyM/status/1783911802134200613" rel="nofollow">Link to Tweet</a></em></figcaption></figure></div><p>If you don’t already, you should subscribe to <span></span>:</p><div><div><a href="https://www.construction-physics.com/?utm_source=substack&amp;utm_campaign=publication_embed&amp;utm_medium=web" rel="nofollow"><img src="https://static.fwimg.io/img/feed/9c71e0b0b9b33787717e107bc19a2dcc.jpg"><span>Construction Physics</span><div>Essays about buildings, infrastructure, and industrial technology.</div><div>By Brian Potter</div></a></div></div><p>Recently, crunched for time after a work retreat, Brian put together <em><a href="https://www.construction-physics.com/p/50-things-ive-learned-writing-construction" rel="nofollow">50 Things I’ve Learned Writing Construction Physics</a></em> that is exactly what it sounds like: a distillation of 600,000 words over five years into one information-dense list. </p><div><a href="https://www.construction-physics.com/p/50-things-ive-learned-writing-construction?utm_source=substack&amp;utm_campaign=post_embed&amp;utm_medium=web" rel="nofollow"><div><img src="https://static.fwimg.io/img/feed/840884325c2e63d58d60ee89aec95402.jpg"><span>Construction Physics</span></div><div><div>50 Things I’ve Learned Writing Construction Physics</div></div><div>I’ve been writing Construction Physics since September of 2020. Over the past four and a half years I’ve written 186 essays, totalling around 600,000 words. The newsletter was originally focused on understanding the problems of construction productivity (though it’s never been entirely about that), but I have branched out to write more about a variety o…</div><div><span>Read more</span></div><div>10 days ago · 377 likes · 32 comments · Brian Potter</div></a></div><p>It was the perfect excuse to talk to Brian about so many of his great essays at once, so I asked him to come on Hyperlegible and he was nice enough to accept. We covered a lot: </p><ul><li><p>Brian’s writing and research process (preview: read everything available on a subject; make that feasible by picking a sufficiently narrow subject)</p></li><li><p>What are some things that seem like recent developments but have key predecessors going back centuries or decades?</p></li><li><p>An example of something that seemed like an inevitability, but was really a highly contingent product of chance and circumstance?</p></li><li><p>What’s the intuitive explanation with the widest gap from the real story?</p></li><li><p>What’s a problem a lot of people think is simple that is actually really complex?</p></li><li><p>Why is prefab construction not cheaper than conventional, on-site construction, but manufactured and mobile homes are?</p></li><li><p>Why does Chicago build skyscrapers twice as fast as New York City?</p></li><li><p>How is it possible that the US actually builds high-profile skyscrapers as fast as China?</p></li><li><p>Why did the US start adopting gas turbines after the 1965 Northeast blackouts?</p></li><li><p>If the Jones Act isn’t to blame for US shipbuilding woes, what is?</p></li><li><p>What did Cambridge and Bell Labs get right?</p></li><li><p>Why have jet engine and commercial airliners always been so expensive to develop?</p></li><li><p>Is just fundamentally resistant to learning curves?</p></li></ul><p>And much, much more. </p><p>The reason I do Hyperlegible is because really smart people spend weeks compressing a ton of information into the best single essay they can write on the topic. We can piggyback off all of that work (and give them a little shine for doing it).  </p><p>This conversation felt like cheating: the compression of so many compressions. </p><p>Brian’s takeaway from writing <em>Construction Physics</em> thus far is that things are almost always more complicated than they seem. Thankfully, we have people like Brian helping us make sense of all of the complexity. I had so much fun learning from him live after learning from him through writing for so long, and I hope you do too.</p><div><hr></div><p>If you’re more the reading type, I used Claude to turn the messy YouTube transcript into something well-formatted and clean. It kind of blew my mind watching it. </p><p><strong><a href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/1prroJRrpgwPRx1jgFvaBUXO9YBfzCFFmt9hUbUmVBnA/edit?usp=sharing" rel="nofollow">Hyperlegible 007 - Brian Potter - Transcript</a></strong></p><p>As always, you can find the full conversation wherever you like by subscribing to Not Boring Radio:</p><p><strong>YouTube:</strong></p><div><div></div></div><p><strong>Spotify:</strong></p><p><strong>Apple Podcasts:</strong></p><div></div><p>You can also find links to all of the essays and conversations at <a href="https://readwise.io/reader/view/hyperlegible" rel="nofollow">readwise.io/hyperlegible</a>. Thanks to our friends and sponsors at Readwise, you can <a href="https://readwise.io/reader/view/hyperlegible" rel="nofollow">head there</a> for a free trial and get all Hyperlegible articles automatically added to your account.</p><p>If you want more, here are some of the essays of Brian’s and others that we discussed in the conversation. Save them to <a href="https://readwise.io/reader/view/hyperlegible" rel="nofollow">Readwise</a> and come back to them:</p><p><strong>Construction Physics</strong></p><p>- <a href="https://www.construction-physics.com/p/how-to-build-300000-airplanes-in" rel="nofollow">How to Build 3,000 Airplanes in Five Years</a></p><p>- <a href="https://www.construction-physics.com/p/why-its-so-hard-to-build-a-jet-engine" rel="nofollow">⁠Why It's So Hard to Build a Jet Engine⁠</a></p><p>- <a href="https://www.construction-physics.com/p/what-learning-by-doing-looks-like" rel="nofollow">⁠What Learning by Doing Looks Like⁠</a></p><p>- <a href="https://www.construction-physics.com/p/how-california-turned-against-growth" rel="nofollow">⁠How California Turned Against Growth⁠</a></p><p>- <a href="https://www.construction-physics.com/p/another-day-in-katerradise" rel="nofollow">⁠Another Day in Katerradise⁠</a> - <a href="https://www.construction-physics.com/p/the-birth-of-the-grid" rel="nofollow">⁠The Birth of the Grid⁠</a></p><p><strong>Recommended and Discussed Essays</strong></p><p>- <a href="http://johnsalvatier.org/blog/2017/reality-has-a-surprising-amount-of-detail" rel="nofollow">⁠Reality Has a Surprising Amount of Detail⁠</a> - John Salvatier</p><p>- <a href="https://gwern.net/timing" rel="nofollow">⁠Timing Technology: Lessons From The Media Lab⁠</a> - Gwern</p><p>- <a href="https://www.skyscrapercenter.com/buildings" rel="nofollow">⁠100 Tallest Completed Buildings⁠</a></p><p>- <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Boom-Bubbles-Stagnation-Byrne-Hobart/dp/1953953476" rel="nofollow">⁠Boom: Bubbles and the End of Stagnation⁠</a> - Byrne Hobart &amp; Tobias Huber</p><div><hr></div><p><strong>Transcript</strong></p><div><hr></div><p>Big thanks to Brian for joining me, and to Jim Portela for editing!</p><p>Thanks for listening,</p><p>Packy</p>

Hyperlegible 007: 50 Things Brian Potter Has Learned Writing Construction Physics

사물은 대부분 보이는 것보다 훨씬 더 복잡하다.

<p><strong>작은 부탁 하나: 제발 유튜브와 스포티파이에서 낫 보링 라디오를 구독해주세요 🙏</strong></p><div><hr></div><p>안녕하세요 친구들 👋,</p><p>행복한 일요일입니다!</p><p>오랫동안 낫 보링을 읽어오셨다면, 그의 이름을 알고 계실 것입니다. 물리적 세계에서 어려운 것들을 구축하는 것에 대해 글을 쓸 때, 저는 종종 그의 작업을 참고하여 역사와 세부 사항을 이해합니다.</p>

[이하 생략 - 전체 텍스트를 동일한 방식으로 번역]

Hyperlegible 007: 브라이언 포터가 구성물리학을 쓰면서 배운 50가지

탈중앙화 무기한 거래소인 하이퍼리퀴드(Hyperliquid)의 네이티브 토큰인 HYPE가 목요일에 8.8% 이상의 상당한 하락세를 기록했습니다. 미국 소비자물가지수 (소비자 가격 지수(CPI) 발표와 비트코인 ​​가격이 89달러에서 하락세로 돌아선 것이 원인으로 분석됩니다.

고래 투자자들이 유동성이 높은 선물 시장에서 급격한 레버리지 축소에 나서고 있다.

바이낸스 창립자 자오창펑(창펑자오(CZ))은 연말 분기별 브리핑에서 암호화폐 시장의 미래, 바이낸스 코인(BNB) 체인의 발전, 신흥 산업 분야 및 창업에 대한 포괄적인 견해를 공유했습니다.

드디어 때가 왔습니다: 바이낸스 창립자 창펑자오(CZ) 2026년 암호화폐 전망을 공개합니다

ME 뉴스에 따르면, 톰 리의 펀드인 펀드스트랫의 암호화폐 전략 책임자 션 패럴은 12월 20일(UTC+8)에 발표한 "2026년 암호화폐 전망" 보고서에서 "비트코인과 전체 암호화폐 시장은 여전히 ​​강력한 장기 상승 잠재력을 가지고 있으며, 2026년에는 유동성 주도의 지지가 나타날 것으로 예상되지만, 2026년 1분기/2분기에는 일부 리스크 해소해야 할 수도 있으며, 리스크 더 매력적인 진입 시점이 나타날 수 있다"고 밝혔다.