This is a segment from The Breakdown newsletter. To read full editions, subscribe.

As recently as a couple of years ago, investing was in a pessimistic place.

Techno-optimist Kevin Kelly worried that “we’ve stopped making big things.”

Big Tech was pilloried for using immense profits to buy their own shares instead of building new things. 

Ben Thompson’s Stratechery sounded more like a legal blog than a tech one, with his daily commentary dominated by the latest in anti-trust news.

Happily, that seems like ancient history now. 

Ben Thompson seems to have some new, wildly ambitious tech venture to write about nearly every day: data centers in space, x-ray…

Read more on Blockworks