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I then end up finding 5 other people/products/companies already fully committed to improving that problem, and I'm disappointed. But a small part of what I feel afterward is relief. Because I was certain whatever bottleneck it was needed to be addressed.

These days, it's more and more the case that technologists and problem solvers are getting extremely proactive. I see the Hadrian team addressing America's hollowed out manufacturing base and I'm stoked. 

While watching the problem be described, I too remember all too well staring at a Scanning Electron Microscope (SEM) as a freshman in college and just thinking, "wow, who even made this thing?". It feeds into the fear that once my Grandpa's generation of builders passes on we will be left with infrastructure that only a handful of people know how to maintain. 

I guess what I'm trying to say in a roundabout way is that I am just so ecstatic about the velocity we move at as builders these days. It can be frustrating when trying to find a niche to really commit my all to, since an original idea is hard to come by. But frankly, one person can't take the world forward into the future by themselves. Case in point: what is debatably Musk's most important trait is his ability to hire the right people for the job.

It's pretty freaking cool to live in a world where my peers fix/build SEMs and companies like Hadrian are working on real problems like recovering America's manufacturing base.