# Brian Potter
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Origins of Efficiency - The Glories of the Modern World
We have a lot of nice things. We're really good at making nice things. We should preserve these nice things. But also nothing lasts forever?
The Origins of Efficiency
By: Brian Potter Published: 2025 384 Pages
Briefly, what is this book about?
The clever and incremental ways we've vastly incre…
Why Can't the US Build Ships?
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This week we've got a solo effort by our host, Jim Vinoski.He's going over the basics of an article from a year ago last September by Brian Potter with the same title as our episode.Jim discusses the decline of American shipbuilding, highlighting that the U.S. now holds only 0.3% o…
Brian Potter - The Origins of Efficiency: Scaling Production
Modern culture treats efficiency as inevitable. Give smart people incentives, add technology, wait…and productivity appears!
Brian Potter’s The Origins of Efficiency dismantles this assumption. The book’s central claim is that efficiency is not a default outcome of markets or technology, but a hist…
What are the origins of efficiency?
If you live in a city in North America or Europe, you almost certainly have had the experience of watching a construction site slowly morph into a building over the course of many years. You might ask, “why’s it taking so long” as you traipse through a dirty sidewalk shed, frustrations mounting. Yo…
The Turning Point: The Story of ASML
Welcome to a new series where we look at big businesses and what led to their big break or failure..
ASML is the biggest European company you’ve never heard of and the Continent’s only true tech giant. But how did this seemingly anonymous Dutch business come to be the world’s biggest producer of ke…
Why has manufacturing gotten dramatically cheaper for 200 years, and construction hasn't? Brian Potter of Construction Physics has spent years finding out.
Brian Potter is the author of Construction Physics and The Origins of Efficiency, published by Stripe Press in 2025. He is a senior infrastructure fellow at the Institute for Progress.
Manufacturing has gotten dramatically cheaper over two centuries. Construction has not, and that gap isn’t closing…
Ep. 254 - From Cost Center to Growth Engine: The AI Future of Manufacturing Maintenance
AI in manufacturing is no longer a strategy reserved for the boardroom. It is a tool for the technician on the plant floor, and the results are already showing up in real operations worldwide.
Most digital transformation strategies in manufacturing are built for desk workers on the carpeted side of…
Brian Potter - How to Fix America's Building Problem
Why has America become so bad at building housing, infrastructure, and major projects? Brian Potter, author of The Origins of Efficiency and writer of Construction Physics, explains why prefab housing keeps failing and why there are no easy fixes to America's building problem. We discuss Katerra, C…
667. The Race to Efficiency & Why Construction Is Behind with Brian Potter
In a world of constant, rapid digital transformation, one industry has struggled to evolve: construction. With all the gains made in efficiency and productivity, what’s holding the construction industry back?
Brian Potter is a senior fellow at the Institute for Progress and author of the book, Th…
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The Trump administration has stripped civil service protections from nearly 8,000 federal workers, moving them into a new career classification that leaves them more exposed to retaliation and dismissal. Public employees say that means a quieter government, staffed by…
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