Hi, Brandon Spiess here.

Interested in the areas below? If they’re things you like to chat about, send me a note.

• Bioengineering, biomanufacturing, biotechnology – at any interest level
• Bio-defense / Bio-offense
• Genetic Engineering (DNA & RNA)
• Neural Control & Engineering
• Stem Cells / iPSCs
• Political Philosophy
• Theology (Historical / Biblical)
• American Dynamism
• Techno-Optimism / Effective Accelerationism

brandon [dot] product [at] gmail [dot] com

My email address may change without notice to reduce spam-email, etc.

Recent Reading

• A Theater Of Envy: William Shakespeare by Rene Girard
• Power, Sex, Suicide: Mitochondria and the Meaning of Life by Nick Lane
• The Island of Dr. Moreau by H.G. Wells
• Evening in the Palace of Reason by James Gaines
• Energy and Civilization: A History by Vaclav Smil
• City of Quartz: Excavating the Future in Los Angeles by Mike Davis
• The Great War for Civilisation: The Conquest of the Middle East by Robert Fisk
• ON POWER: The Natural History of Its Growth by Bertrand De Jouvenel
• The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism by Max Weber
• Where Is My Flying Car?: A Memoir of Future Past by J. Storrs Hall
• Social Acceleration: A New Theory of Modernity by Hartmut Rosa
• The City and Man by Leo Strauss
• The Power of the Powerless by Václav Havel
• The Making of the Atomic Bomb by Richard Rhodes
• Brunelleschi’s Dome: How a Renaissance Genius Reinvented Architecture by Ross King