Dara

Tweeting my curiosities.

[Dara @DaraVChan]

#Starlink is live at the #VealRenh farm in #Cambodia! Thanks @elonmusk and the best of American aerospace engineering!

Shoutout to our Khmer staff welder Chuong for quickly devising a mounting bracket.

Now we can host video tours of #vanilla farming!

[Dara @DaraVChan]

@Julio_Morinigo Theres over 192k public EV chargers now actually. https://t.co/LvY6gdtPC3

[Dara @DaraVChan]

@SawyerMerritt Auto-pilot is mainly used on highways, which are far simpler to navigate than urban areas. Driving straight vs negotiating stop signs, red lights, pedestrians. The data needs to be further broken down by operation design domain to provide signal.

[Dara @DaraVChan]

@bbrook74 @elonmusk Get a mounting bracket for the dish and extra mesh router for wifi range

[Dara @DaraVChan]

#Starlink is live at the #VealRenh farm in #Cambodia! Thanks @elonmusk and the best of American aerospace engineering!

Shoutout to our Khmer staff welder Chuong for quickly devising a mounting bracket.

Now we can host video tours of #vanilla farming!

[Dara @DaraVChan]

Good evening Paphiopedilum henryanum

#paph #paphiopedilum #henryanum #orchids #Cambodia

[Naval @naval]

You work for others until you can work for yourself.

You work for yourself until you can work for others.

[Dara @DaraVChan]

Why grow vanilla in Cambodia?

#Cambodia #vanilla

[Dara @DaraVChan]

@LasHondu11587 @elonmusk It will auto-subscribe monthly if you allow it. Why would it need to be reactivated every two months?

[Dara @DaraVChan]

"Description of the vanilla plant of Martinique. [Father Jean-Baptiste]... Labat assures us that in his voyages to America he found in Martinique another species of vanilla, which he describes as follows. The flower it produces is almost yellow and is divided into five leaves, longer than wide, wavy, and slightly indented in the middle. In the center grows a little round pistil, slightly pointed, which elongates and changes into fruit. This flower is about the same size and consistency as that of a pea. The bloom lasts no longer than five or six days after which it fades, dries, falls, and leaves the pistil nude. Then little by little it becomes a pod of five, six, or seven inches long, more flat than round, about 0.42 inches wide and 0.17 inches thick shaped somewhat like our bean pods.

This pod begins as a lovely green, which yellows as it ripens, finally becoming completely grown when it is dry. The inside is filled with tiny round seeds, almost imperceptible and impalpable. These are red before they ripen and all black when they are mature. Before then they have no strong odor whatsoever unlike that of the green. But when they are ripe and rubbed between the hands they give off a slight aromatic odor that it highly pleasant.

This same information was provided to the Academy of Sciences in 1724 by one of the correspondents of the academy living in Martinique who added that he had three pies that came from a cutting he had brought from New Spain, and that these had grown with perfect success."

[Dara @DaraVChan]

#TBThursday #vanilla
Louis de Jaucourt, French philosopher and scholar, writing of vanilla in 1765:
"There are three types of vanilla; the first is called pompona or bova by the Spaniards, that is swollen or puffed up. The second is leq , that is the “merchant” or marketable type. The third is simarona or bastard. The pods of the pompona are large and short. Those of the leq vanilla are longer and more supple. Those of the simarona are the smallest in every respect.

Only the leq vanilla is good. It must be of a deep brownish red, not too black, not too russet, not too sticky, and not too dried out. The pods must be somewhat wrinkled and appear to be filled. A package of fifty should weigh more than five ounces. Those that weigh eight are the sobrebuenas , the excellent. Their odor must be penetrating and pleasant when a fresh, well seasoned pod is opened. The pods will be filled with a black, oily, balsamic liquid, swimming with a infinite number of small seeds, virtually imperceptible. There will be a strong, sleep-inducing odor that provokes a kind of intoxication. The pompona has the strongest and less pleasing odor. It can cause headaches, dizziness, and shortness of breath. The juice of the pompona is more fluid and its seeds are larger, more like those of the mustard plant. The simarona has a weaker odor, less fluid, and fewer seeds."

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[Dara @DaraVChan]

"The price and choice of vanilla. The packets of vanilla containing fifty pods are sold in Amsterdam from 10 to 20 florins, that is from 20 to 42 French pounds in our money based on the scarcity, type, or quality. A one percent deduction is allowed for prompt payment. The choicest vanilla is that which is the best nourished, largest, newest, most odorific, slightly soft, and neither too wrinkled nor too oily outside. It is not necessary for them to have been put in a humid place, for then they would have a tendency to rot or they would be so already. They must not only be free of rot, but have a pleasant odor and also be fat and supple. It is also necessary to make sure they are of the same size, since the center of these packets is often filled only with small, dry and odorless vanilla pods, inside of which are extremely small seeds that are black and shiny. Not to be thrown away are the vanilla pods that are covered with a powdery salt or with very fine points of salt, in appearance just like the flowers of the benjoin. This flower is nothing other than an essential salt, which this fruit is filled with and which escapes when put in a place where the temperature is too hot. When the vanilla pod is allowed to ripen for too long a time on the plant, it bursts and exudes a small quantity of distilled, black, odorous, balsamic fluid that condenses into a balm. It is carefully gathered in small ceramic containers placed underneath the pods. This balm is unknown in Europe either because it cannot be preserved in transport or because the natives keep it for themselves or because the Spaniards prevent its export."

[Dara @DaraVChan]

Look within, tune into how you interact with the world and the way that energy resonates back to you. Have the clarity to see your North Star. This is your destination, it gives you purpose, you have to want it so badly that nothing else and no one can distract you from getting there. The destination is not the end goal, it's merely the beginning of your journey.
Good luck, I know you can find it.

[Dara @DaraVChan]

What you were doing before wasn't make you happy. The voice inside your head restless, urging you to switch things up a bit. Job, promotion, family, relationships, location, insert what you truly want here.

[Dara @DaraVChan]

Ask yourself why the old blueprint didn't work out. Kept trying, no progress, nothing clicked. Update the blueprint from v 1.5 to 1.6. Not much better, just a different flavor of the same. Drop the blueprint, use a compass.

[Dara @DaraVChan]

Find your product-mission fit

[du @thedulab]

How do I stop procrastinating? Wrong question to ask. Why am I procrastinating? This is the solution.

You don't actually give a shit about what you're doing. You're starting some random dropshipping store because you're bored. Short form content agency because a bunch of kids are doing it.

It's just a worse version of a 9-5. It's still work. Doesn't mean anything to you. In your mind, the journey is a slog you have to push through, not the gift itself. You have to constantly find ways to hypnotize yourself into believing you're actually living the dream.

So much friction. Tension. You need to be excited. Find what you're great at. What allows you to feel like yourself. Like you're home. Clarity. Emotional resonance. Where you don't even need to force yourself to stop watching Netflix or whatever, because consumption naturally pales in comparison to the stimulation you get from making progress towards your personal vision.

Forget the tactics. You could deploy significant effort and time to do a million things that'll make a marginal impact on your motivation, when you could've just found deeper meaning and purpose instead. Progress is not as hard as you think. It can be subjectively effortless. You just don't have a reason for living.

[Dara @DaraVChan]

Timestamp, Landmark
0:00 Otres Beach
0:13 Starbay
0:27 Brown Coffee - Seaview
0:38 Two Lions Roundabout រង្វង់មូ���តោពីរ
0:45 Skanda Riding Peacock រះស្កន្ទ​គង់​លេី​ក្ងោក​
0:49 Preah Thong Neang Neak ព្រះថោងនាងនាគ
0:53 Khmer Can Do It! ខ្មែរធ្វើបាន

Timestamp, Orchid Species
2:37 Vanilla Phaentha វ៉ានីឡា ប្រេស៊ីល
2:44 Vanilla Tahitensis វ៉ានីឡា តាហ៊ីទី
2:50 Vanilla Atropogon វ៉ានីឡា ពុកចង្ការ ងងឹត
2:55 Vanilla Atropogon Alba វ៉ានីឡា ពុកចង្ការ ងងឹតពណ៌ស
2:59 Vanilla Aphylla គ្មានស្លឹក
3:05 Vanilla Planifolia deflasking ស្លឹកសំប៉ែត
3:15 Paphiopedilum Callosum អ័រគីដេស្បែកជើងនារី 'Callosum'
3:22 Paphiopeidlum Maudiae អ័រគីដេស្បែកជើងនារី 'Maudiae'

[Dara @DaraVChan]

It is my privilege to premiere the Vanilla Research Lab of Sihanoukville!
We welcome all to come to Preah Sihanouk, enjoy the beautiful coastline, and visit the lab to learn about plant tissue culture and vanilla orchids.
Our mission is to provide access to new, clean vanilla plants through micropropagation to ensure the success of this agriculture industry in Cambodia and beyond.
Music: Summertime by Niki
#vanilla #orchids #planttissueculture #sihanoukville #Cambodia

[Dara @DaraVChan]

Last December I became interested in researching vanilla horticulture, after learning of the huge opportunity to improve the crop through plant breeding from University of Florida. My interest really peaked once I learned that many other small countries including Cambodia were starting to grow it, and the passion and dedication from this entrepreneurial community of farmers and researchers was contagious.

It's been just 3 months since I embarked full time on this new adventure in Cambodia, and everyday is so surreal. This has to be the luckiest year of my life. My north star has been trusting my intuition: if something feels right and seems interesting, just do it, move with velocity, and figure it out as we go. And so far it seems to be working. The energy that I send out to the universe somehow gets amplified and returns back to me 100x.

The press coverage that started a month ago with Kiripost about deploying SpaceX's Starlink at our farm in Veal Renh has snowballed into air time with nearly every Cambodia national news channel talking about our efforts to utilize modern agri-technologies and leading plant science research to solve the challenges of vanilla horticulture. To quantify the news reach, that's 12 MILLION facebook followers from the combined following of Phnom Penh Post, Business Cambodia, CNC TV, FK News TV24h, SormPheaktra-សោម ភ័ក្រត្រា, Hang Meas HDTV, and Fresh News TV.

A plant tissue culture lab is essential because a successful agriculture industry requires starting with clean plant material and selecting elite varietals with the strongest traits for cloning. If anyone tells you otherwise, I challenge them to bring their research, experimental data, and we can debate this on national TV. Otherwise we focus on our work and the let the plants do the talking for us.

Everyday I am doing meaningful and high impact work, while going with the flow, having as much fun as possible, and connecting with interesting and accomplished people. I have travel plans to Europe, La Réunion, and the rest of Southeast Asia, and can hardly wait to experience whatever comes next. Thanks for reading and I appreciate everyone's support.

#vanilla #orchids #agtech #planttissueculture #plantscience

[Dara @DaraVChan]

@LasHondu11587 @elonmusk I am in Sihanoukville province of Cambodia. Twitter DM’s are open friend

[Orchiholism @PetrovichBilly]

@DaraVChan Good evening😂