💡The Heretics Who Made Fusion Small: What Avalanche Energy Teaches Us About Impossible Problems

Send us Fan Mail Please see the corresponding Substack episode When the orthodoxy says “it can’t be done,” someone inevitably proves them wrong—but only if they’re willing to fail fast, think sideways, and trust the data over doctrine. There’s a peculiar comfort in impossibility. When experts across an entire field agree that something fundamentally cannot work, we get to stop worrying about it. The case is closed. The limits are real. We can move on to problems that might actually have solut...