Danielle Fong 🏴‍☠️@DanielleFong

nobody has an adequate mental model of how deprived independent hardware scientists pursuing holy grail technologies have been for $$. yes of course you are doing experiments in your kitchen, your shed, your basement, your garage. of course you are sleeping in the lab. that's all you get! be happy you get to pursue a dream. it is not like i have been replete with capital either, and this is *after* having been a favored one, of billionaires. thin days, indeed. but that means that the space of material technologies, hard technologies, is profoundly more virgin territory than people imagine. ripe for exploration -- for the bold