Speed as Policy: Conversations with Tyler — Blake Scholl on Supersonic Flight & Fixing Airports
Update: 2025-11-25
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When speed becomes a design choice, everything from airport terminals to supersonic jets changes—Blake Scholl lays out how. Original episode: 41 minutes — Condensed: 4 minutes. In this short summary of Conversations with Tyler, host Tyler Cowen and guest Blake Scholl (founder of Boom) cover bold ideas in aviation, infrastructure, and regulation: underground terminals, ending security theater, privatizing airports, reviving supersonic travel, faster manufacturing, and using LLMs to cut regulatory work. You’ll get concrete takeaways on business models, policy changes, and design-driven engineering that could make travel dramatically faster and more efficient. Keywords: supersonic flight, airports, infrastructure, privatization, regulation, aviation design, manufacturing, LLMs. Listen now to get the key ideas in minutes.
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