It’s Time to Build
Ok, assume I&#x27;m bought into this idea - where would I even begin?<p>What are some companies working on these kind of fundamental building things problems? I know of the Boring Company, though haven&#x27;t really heard anything from them since the flamethrowers a few years back. Sidewalk labs was doing some cool things in Toronto, but I think they&#x27;ve been running into big regulatory issues too and it one point it sounded like their plans were completely on hold. The YC New Cities idea sounded intriguing, but as far as I know they never talked about a single thing to come out of that program and it&#x27;s now been shut down.<p>I really haven&#x27;t heard of very many companies at all doing these kinds of things (which is Marc&#x27;s whole point), and the ones that I have been casually following, I check back 5 years later and they don&#x27;t seem to have made any tangible progress. Is there just no way to iterate quickly at all in the physical world?<p>Then of course there would be the challenge of trying to actually get a job at one of these places, I&#x27;m not sure what experience would even be required for this kind of work. Maybe a Civil or Mechanical Engineering degree? As a software developer I&#x27;m not sure how I&#x27;d even get my foot in the door.<p>I guess that would leave trying to start something myself, but there too I really have no clue where to even begin. It doesn&#x27;t seem like you can just start tinkering on construction innovations with minimal upfront investment on your nights and weekends like you can with building an app. On this front someone like Marc Andreesen could offer a ton of advice, I&#x27;d love to see him follow up on this post with more thoughts about this. Or even announce a program to fund new companies focused on this type of fundamental building.<p>Anyway, I&#x27;d be really curious to hear if anyone knows of either 1. more examples of companies working these spaces to look into or 2. resources to even just learn more about the problem space and which areas might be ripe for innovation.