Aggie Branczyk

How to have a fulfilling career Most careers don't follow a straight line, which can be scary or liberating. I share my personal thoughts on how to prepare for a nonlinear career with practical advice on skills, curiosity, and caree...

I gave a career talk this week. You might find it interesting.

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Four axes: a framework for classifying quantum tech startups And how to tell when regular startup lessons carry over to quantum tech—and when they don’t

Some thoughts on how to categorize different quantum tech startups. Thinking about it this way helps me know when lessons from regular startup land apply, and when they might not.

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I really like the analogy of algorithms as recipes. We can extend the analogy to quantum computing. In this post, I take it a little too far.

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Check out my guest appearance on The Quantum Experience where I get to share my thoughts on leadership.

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Front end + back end = full stack

more from Derek Sivers

So, I won’t be able to write anything serious for the Aggie Inc. Substack this week. I’ve gone into focus mode. In the meantime, here are some things I’ve been enjoying recently, if you’re looking for inspiration.

What about you?

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The danger of playing it safe: why you need to take PR risks When you avoid risks, you don’t make fewer mistakes — you make different mistakes.

Just learnt a new term: mistakes of commission.

These are data-rich mistakes, the kind that help you hone your craft.

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know your audience

wise words from 1908

How I, a non-developer, read the tutorial you, a developer, wrote for me, a beginner - annie's blog “Hello! I am a developer. Here is my relevant experience: I code in Hoobijag and sometimes jabbernocks and of course ABCDE++++ (but never ABCDE+/^+ are you kidding? ha!)  and I like working with…

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What the heck is the difference between incubators, accelerators and venture studios???

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patience

sive.rs/donkey

My favourite note-taking tools and my philosophy around how I incorporate technology into my life.

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#solopreneur #notetaking #apps

Kinda wish you could cash in your citations when you leave academia

I used to think of VCs as this mysterious group of people, who existed to give you money, if only you managed to impress them somehow. If you do too, this post will help.

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#quantumcomputing #venturecapital #entrepreneurship 🧪⚛️

What’s that saying? Something like “I’ve got something that super duper rich guy doesn’t: enough”

I had a dream where for one reason or another, I was given the task of finding a particular address in a phone book. In the dream, I thought it was the funniest thing ever, but I didn’t have anyone around who I could share the joke with.

I'm doing more recordings these days and think it's time to invest in a new mic. Any suggestions for a good podcasting mic?

One of the best things about being a solopreneur in 2025 is the sheer number of tools and apps you can use to be productive without hiring more people.

In this post, I wanted to highlight some of my favourite ones!

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So I’ve now heard of silicon valley, quantum valley, and hydrogen valley. What other valleys are there out there?

Sometimes I have trouble explaining to my tech friends why physicists have trouble adjusting to industry.

Hot take: I think companies sometimes underestimate how much it matters whether people feel proud to say where they work.

Can you imagine if Planck chose a less cool sounding name, how different our industry might be today.

Some advice, on how to take advice, from Derek Sivers.

Anyone else love how on a mac, the eject disk menu item is right above the erase disk menu item?

Communication for deep tech startups is tricky. The standard advice is to abstract away the technical details and focus on customer problems.

But in deep tech, that’s easier said than done. And even when it’s possible, it’s often not enough.

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🧪⚛️ #deeptech

We still have our dvd player hooked up. When we’re feeling nostalgic, we go down to the local library and rent out some dvds for an old-fashioned movie night 🍿