2025-12-15
An interesting piece that wants to blame private equity investors for rising rural fire department services. I talked to Grok about why open source software for fire departments hasn't been written by a “do gooder” MIT coder. A thread. https://www.nytimes.com/...
New York Times
US volunteer fire departments are scrambling to find software amid shrinking options and higher costs, as companies backed by private equity dominate the market
Rural departments have long relied on cheap software solutions to keep their operations running.
2020-04-26
An important piece. In future natural disasters, we will suffer less due to drone delivery of key supplies. The Scramble for Delivery Robots Is On and Startups Can Barely Keep Up https://www.wsj.com/...
Ars Technica
The COVID-19 outbreak is accelerating the adoption of autonomous sidewalk delivery robots in the US, as startups Starship and Kiwibot scramble to meet demand
“We saw that business double overnight,” startup says of UK grocery deliveries. — On the morning of March 30 …