Technology Stalled in 1970

Non-tech: agreed, but maybe because mechanical engineering, medicine, etc. are somewhat boring? Crypto has gotten large essentially just via being very interesting/innovative tech, despite being obviously worse in most circumstances than a central authority.

Software eating the world: this

Elon Musk: startup/tech model for rockets, cars (rocketry firms are wildly unlike digital tech, especially in their business model/operations/customer(s)), maybe the same idea was behind DOGE?

"I think we’re generally too drawn to incremental point solutions and very scared of complex operational problems like that.": Thiel also wrote Zero to One;

I think this is an example thinkers/authors' ideas being dependencies of each other/applicable to themselves, because things in one field are applicable to each other, or because thinking those things lets them think the related things better? If the second, that implies that not enough people think ideas via other people's ideas, or something like that

"The paradigmatic example for a large company is Google. Within large companies you often run into internal bureaucracy..." From my understanding, Google is actually quite bureacratic/high-moloch/moral mazeish, compared to other tech orgs.