Top of Mind with Brad Porter

What do we value most in a post-AGI world? Thoughts on the Industrial Revolution and what’s coming. Newsletter

Energy Matters! Thinking about the pace of your business during the holiday season. Newsletter

Discussing innovation and investment in the future of robotics with Alfred Lin (Sequoia Capital) and Kate Rooney (CNBC) on the stage of the 2025 HumanX Conference Why now for robotics? How to think about investment in the robotics space? Why not humanoids? How automation will create more jobs? Why the future is robotics! Video Sequoia’s Series A in Cobot Newsletter

The value of taking time and space to connect and reflect. Newsletter

Talking about boldness and energy and how it relates to organization change, return to office, and our daily lives. Newsletter

Numbers, robot numbers, deployment numbers. What do they mean, what’s important? It’s easy to get lost in big predictions, but the only numbers that matter are the ones produced by real robots doing real work. Proxie’s numbers are proof of that, so I’m excited to share. Enjoy! Newsletter

Reflecting on the Freedom to Build. Newsletter

Sunday thoughts on the brains of robots and re-pitching your investors, customers, and employees. Newsletter

By popular demand, my take on this week’s humanoid announcements. Newsletter

Talking today about the value of solving hard problems! Plus more insight into our robot and lessons from the field.  Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SRMn_2lfV-I Newsletter

Exciting progress… Proxie now identifies its own work, tells you where it's going, and completes the task… even in congested hospital hallways! Newsletter

Best case scenario, worst case scenario, likely scenario… how do you plan for all three. Newsletter

Rethinking performance management … are you pulling the company ahead? Newsletter

Dr Seth Teller was my masters thesis advisor at MIT. His wife wrote a book last year that dives deeper into his life, the context surrounding his decision to end his life, and the impact that had. It’s a deeply vulnerable book and top of mind for me right now. But I do want to put a WARNING that if this isn’t a topic you want to hear about; I won’t be offended if you don’t turn in this week. Newsl...

Are we thinking big enough? That’s the question I’m thinking a lot about. It’s really hard to put into proper perspective the pace of the productivity gains we’re going to see from AI and robotics. We’re going to need more capital and more enterpreneurs to really capitalize on this opportunity. Newsletter

Competition drives innovation… in every arena! Tune in as I talk about how this applies equally to RC F5K competitions and robotics. Newsletter

The promise of robotics and AI is that we create a far more abundant future. Sharing my thoughts on what abundance enables and why our future has the potential to be far more peaceful and prosperous. Newsletter

The first day in a new building really sets the tone. The best way to honor and thank your employees is to make that a great experience. But you also can’t lose sight of the fact that startups aren’t about nice working spaces… they’re about fighting for your early customers and succeeding with them.  Happy Labor Day everyone! Newsletter

Sharing my thoughts on succeeding in robotics transformation by picking partners you’re believe can move the needle for your business and going on the journey with them! Newsletter

More on upgrading your feet! How can you tell if your shoes have enough space? I’ll show you. Video: https://youtu.be/68r6FTRGdmI Newsletter

Last in my series from upstate New York. Here I share a lesson I learned at age 5 about how metrics can motivate us. Newsletter

Bonus content… learning the value of hard work! Newsletter

We don’t always talk about the importance of having an ambitious culture. Ambitious cultures can be tricky to manage. Ambitious people have ambitious expectations. They push you, they challenge you. But ambitious people in ambitious cultures can achieve ambitious things. Newsletter

This week I follow up from last week’s post to go deeper into my philosophy on personal finances. Newsletter

In this Top of Mind, I'm talking about talent and why it’s critical to our companies, but also our country. (Recorded in June, 2025) Newsletter