John Cosgrove

Obsessed with companies building things once thought impossible, inspiring others to do the same. Currently: Dad. Formerly: Product at Cloudflare.

[John Cosgrove @cameracoz]

Don't let the powers that be use lies and spin to drive us to hate each other.

We are all in this together!

[John Cosgrove @cameracoz]

Positive human futures that we want to be a part of! 💪🤘🙌

[Max Zeff @ZeffMax]

Loved Midjourney CEO David Holz's answer on what to make of the company now:

“We’re going to be a little confusing for the next six months as we announce all the things, but I’m hoping as they all are out there, they sort’ve form a picture which I hope feels pretty cohesive. Most of them are around creativity, but some of them like this are just around positive human futures that we actually want to be a part of. And I think this is an important thing for AI companies to do—for all humans to do.”

[Mike P @mikepat711]

You become more fiscally conservative as you get older because you’ve had more time to watch your federal government fail to solve any problems despite taking in trillions of dollars in revenues per year.

You’ve watched the private markets deliver life-changing technologies that bring the entire tide up, all while these hypocrites and fools bark the same nonsense year after year, and somehow cannot manage to deliver anything but massive deficits, finger pointing, and divisive rhetoric.

In this post, Warren transfers nonsense from her brain to her thumbs, and through the magic touch-screen slab to tell you that she’d be able to do something with a few billion more dollars that her and her colleagues haven’t been able to do with a multi-thousand-billion dollar annual budget for years and years.

What is the meaning of her post here? There is no meaning. It is meaningless. The intention? To stir emotions in anyone who isn’t aware of the obvious things I’ve written here. To manipulate and gain the support of sheep.

If you actually think revenue is the bottleneck for government output, you lack basic financial literacy and are being conned by con artists.

[John Cosgrove @cameracoz]

Fake shifting in an EV is a Blackberry Storm moment.

"... it was RIM's first touchscreen device, and its first without a physical keyboard. It featured a touchscreen that responded like a button via SurePress, RIM's haptic feedback technology."

https://t.co/AlOU6cDSN2

[John Cosgrove @cameracoz]

@TechOperator I asked a friend what he wanted to do after the startup we were in ended (we didn't know we'd be acquired at the time). He said "I just wanna go somewhere and keep the green lights green".

No pressure, no nonsense. Just keep the green lights green.

[Mark Walker @markwalker5555]

One of the most laughable things on the internet is all the people in our government who have amassed a 39 trillion dollar debt telling us that if they could just tax Elon’s wealth, they could fix everything they have broken. 😂🤡

[John Cosgrove @cameracoz]

@laurenloprete ngl been yearning for the windows 95 UI to make a comeback recently

[John Cosgrove @cameracoz]

@Tslachan Jaywalking is safer around autonomous cars 🙃

[Devon Eriksen @Devon_Eriksen_]

Asteroid mining is not only going to make a lot more trillionaires, it's going to make us all rich.

Just like the Industrial Revolution, the Space Revolution will greatly increase standards of living across humanity... yours, mine, everyone's.

Electric light and indoor plumbing were once luxuries. Now they are so universal that we can have them and still think of ourselves as poor. But preindustrial folk would have thought us wealthy beyond measure. What's coming is another paradigm shift.

You may think this is all theoretical.

You may think asteroid mining is an unproven concept. You're wrong. Because you don't know one critical fact.

We're already asteroid mining.

And we've been doing it since the Bronze Age.

All gold we mine on earth, all the copper for wires, the uranium for reactors, all the iron for nails, everything made of heavy metals that you own, or use, or have ever seen... it's all mined from ancient asteroid strikes.

All the native Earth metals sunk to the core when the whole planet was molten. Past our reach.

Do you think there are precious metals, like gold and silver and platinum? Do you think that even common metals, like iron and tin and copper, cost a lot to extract and refine?

Artificial scarcity.

Every piece of metal you have ever seen was sourced from the tiny percentage of asteroids that once hit Earth.

Leave the gravity well, learn to sail the void, and we can loot all the asteroids that haven't.

Imagine that we built all of civilization picking up our raw materials, grain by grain, with tweezers.

Asteroid mining, true asteroid mining, is a shovel. And no, not a hand tool shovel, I mean the shovel attachment on the front of an industrial digger.

That's why SpaceX has trillion dollar plus valuation. And unless we screw things up on Earth, and sabotage them somehow, that valuation is way too low.

Below here, you'll see a different part of the plan. A little company, running out of a little industrial space in the San Fernando Valley, is building humanity the ultimate shopping bag.

They think Mars is a sideshow, you see.

They want to bag up asteroids, just scoop the little ones right up with a great big robot butterfly net, and bring back to high Earth orbit.

Strip them down there, and build.

If you thought data centers in space are wild, wait until you see factories in space. Wait until everything from toasters to CPUs to machine tools are made in high orbit, or on the moon, and the only bits that ever make it to Earth on the finished products.

In space, minerals are cheap. And power is free. And it doesn't cost much of anything to move goods down a gravity well.

You have no idea what's coming.

Neither does SpaceX or Transastra, for that matter. They've got a hold of the tail of the elephant, and they think the Space Revolution is a rope.

I'm a science fiction author. My job is to see the whole elephant.

It's a big fucking elephant.

[Siqi Chen @blader]

not a single person on this list was born a billionaire

the world that i want to build, live and vote for is a where this will continue to be true every generation, except the numbers keep getting larger

[John Cosgrove @cameracoz]

I am *insanely* grateful for paid leave for me and my wife, but WOW is there absolutely ZERO trust in this system, broadly.

Terrible and confusing experience working with the third party firms used.

Terrible experience uploading proof documents to HR systems.

[John Cosgrove @cameracoz]

@houmanhemmati @boringcompany @elonmusk Cannot wait to book a participating hotel if I ever have to go back to Vegas.

The traffic is terrible, and the trip to and from the airport to a close hotel is almost insulting in how long it takes.

[Dan Romero @dwr]

the spacex ipo irks libs because they think meritocracy is a lib thing and it turns out meritocracy doesn’t actually exist and the closest thing thing to actual meritocracy is capitalism and they’re bad at it because it rewards risk-taking not credentialism

[Robert Sterling @RobertMSterling]

SpaceX raised only $12B of capital before going public. With that $12B, they revolutionized the rocket industry, built a global satellite network, and created arguably the most innovative company of all time.

The federal government spends $12B every 15 hours and still can’t get its shit together. Prior to SpaceX, NASA was sending astronauts into space on Soviet-era Russian Soyuz capsules.

So no, I don’t find Elon’s wealth to be a problem, and I wouldn’t trust Elizabeth Warren or Bernie Sanders to allocate a single dollar of it.

[John Cosgrove @cameracoz]

At this point if you hate Elon because he’s wealthy, you’re just acting like crabs in a barrel.

At least pick a different reason.

[Dirty Texas Hedge @HedgeDirty]

Over 4000 workers just became millionaires by owning the means of production and the socialists are pissed

[Robert Sterling @RobertMSterling]

> you’ll never start a rocket company
> you’ll never build your own engines
> you’ll never be able to use off-the-shelf parts
> you’ll never survive three launch failures
> you’ll never reach orbit
> you’ll never win NASA’s trust
> you’ll never launch cargo to the ISS
> you’ll never compete with Boeing
> you’ll never compete with Lockheed
> you’ll never make rockets reusable
> you’ll never land a rocket vertically
> you’ll never land one on a drone ship
> you’ll never reuse a booster
> you’ll never fly the same booster 10 times
> you’ll never fly the same booster 20 times
> you’ll never fly the same booster 30 times
> you’ll never recover and reuse the fairing
> you’ll never lower launch costs
> you’ll never launch every month
> you’ll never launch every week
> you’ll never launch multiple times a week
> you’ll never carry astronauts
> you’ll never replace Roscosmos
> you’ll never fly civilians to orbit
> you’ll never manufacture satellites at scale
> you’ll never build the biggest constellation ever
> you’ll never make satellite internet work
> you’ll never make satellite internet fast
> you’ll never make satellite internet affordable
> you’ll never serve rural customers
> you’ll never serve aircraft and ships
> you’ll never build a methane rocket engine
> you’ll never make full-flow staged combustion work
> you’ll never build the most powerful rocket ever
> you’ll never build a rocket bigger than Saturn V
> you’ll never build it out of stainless steel
> you’ll never launch Starship
> you’ll never separate Super Heavy and Starship
> you’ll never relight Raptor in space
> you’ll never bring Super Heavy back
> you’ll never catch a booster with Mechazilla tower arms
> you’ll never launch 85% of mass to orbit worldwide
> you’ll never change the economics of space
> you’ll never force the entire industry to copy you
> you’ll never win
> you’ll never IPO

Congratulations to @elonmusk and the SpaceX team. You did what countless people said was impossible, and you did it time and time again.

Today is your day. You deserve this. May it be a glorious one.

[Sergio Ferrero @calotonterias]

Dejar a los niños jugar solos al aire libre exponiéndose a riesgos controlados (escalar árboles, jugar con agua o fuego, luchar de broma, explorar zonas donde hay riesgo de perderse, correr a gran velocidad, saltar desde cierta altura...) es necesario para su correcto desarrollo.

Aumenta significativamente su autoconfianza y su sentimiento de competencia, mejora el bienestar psicológico, fortalece la resiliencia emocional y les ayuda a regular el miedo de forma saludable (efecto anti-fóbico). Además, favorece el desarrollo físico (fuerza, coordinación, equilibrio y habilidades motoras), incrementa la actividad física y reduce el sedentarismo. A nivel social, mejora sus habilidades de interacción con otros niños, la resolución de conflictos, la cooperación y el liderazgo. También estimula la creatividad, la resolución de problemas y la capacidad de evaluar y gestionar riesgos reales por sí mismos.

Por el contrario, apartarlos de cualquier peligro y sobreprotegerlos aumenta notablemente el riesgo de desarrollar fobias y ansiedad, reduce su resiliencia, disminuye su autoestima y su capacidad para manejar el estrés y los desafíos de la vida. También favorece el sedentarismo, la obesidad, un menor desarrollo de habilidades motoras y peores competencias sociales, dejando a los niños menos preparados para enfrentarse al mundo real.

[John Cosgrove @cameracoz]

Hell yea https://t.co/iOIwZoZ2lT

[Tesla Robotaxi @robotaxi]

Unsupervised Robotaxi now in the entire Austin Metro area

[John Cosgrove @cameracoz]

Probably nothing.

[Trevor Scott ✘ @TrevorScottReal]

Can confirm that in Austin, every single Model Y Robotaxi across town is driverless.

[Engineer Girlfriend @enggirlfriend]

i realized something recently

bernie sanders and AOC have damaged the fabric of america immensely but we rarely talk about it

bernie/AOC have vilified successful businessmen & women. calling CEOs like elon musk, bezos, zuck evil. yes these people have shortcomings - but they are also truly self made, come from normal/humble backgrounds. with hard work they created trillions in economic value. isn’t that a fundamental part of what america is about? the land of opportunity?

in the 2000s when i was in elementary school, bill gates and steve jobs were viewed as role models. our teachers taught us about how much they achieved + given to society. these CEOs were actually respected and i believe this culture brought up a generation of ambitious hard working americans

now, kids are being taught that working hard and becoming a billionaire is evil. we’re essentially telling them to have victim mindset and stay poor

i know bernie/AOC & crew are never going to take responsibility. i can’t even tell if they realize what they’re doing