Europe is sweltering under its second heat dome in two months, with temperatures spiking above 104 degrees Fahrenheit, bringing dangerous conditions across swaths of the planet’s fastest-warming continent. France banned public alcohol consumption, Spain closed a World Cup fan zone and the UK is bracing for an annihilation of its all-time June temperature record. https://t.co/glaQ1pDdM5
The two-part Viking 1 spacecraft reached Mars orbit 50 years ago today. A few days later, the images it returned of the proposed Viking 1 landing site were met with both elation and shock.
Mars as viewed by Viking 1's cameras did not look like the planet Mariner 9 saw. The Viking 1 Lander's proposed landing site, chosen after years of debate, lay on the floor of what looked like a deeply incised river bed. America's first Mars landing—scheduled for July 4, 1976, America's Bicentennial—would have to be delayed so a less risky landing spot could be found.
📷 This mosaic of Mars is a compilation of images captured by the Viking Orbiter 1. The center of the scene shows the entire Valles Marineris canyon system.
The quiet millionaire checklist:
- Lives below their means
- Drives something boring
- Invests consistently
- Talks about it to nobody
- Lets time do the heavy lifting
Her lack of accountability, refusal to apologize shows that she doesn't respect voters enough to explain why she held those convictions and how she supposedly “evolved”… from four years ago.
Be honest with voters!
Marc Andreessen says Elon Musk runs 120 design reviews a day in 5-minute slots.
He does this while running six different companies at once.
Andreessen says Elon maps each company as a production process.
Each process has one bottleneck — the single thing slowing it down.
Elon finds the engineer working on that bottleneck and sits with them until it's fixed.
He does this at Tesla 52 times a year. Personally.
"There's no CEO like this."
Most CEOs run their companies through a wall of middle managers.
Andreessen watched IBM collapse under that model.
Inside IBM, they had a name for the failure mode: the "Big Gray Cloud."
It was the traveling court of suited men who kept the CEO away from engineers.
After 12 layers of compounding lies, the CEO had no idea what was happening.
Elon's method is the polar opposite.
Design review math:
- 5 minutes per engineer
- 12 reviews per hour
- 10 hours per day
- 120 reviews per day
An engineer described working for him as entering "a zone of shocking competence."
On sustaining it, Elon's rule is:
"I don't take vacations."
What's the one weekly bottleneck in your work that nobody's fixing?
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