Harry V. Quackenboss

CEO, serial entrepreneur, MedTech/Computing/Networking, Multician, San Jose State University FSAE Team advisor. Ex Trans-Am/NASCAR/IMSA motorsports engineer.

[Harry V. Quackenboss @hquackenboss]

@Moveonup7 @FinanceLancelot Either a moron or a megaphone with an agenda.

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Katherine Boyle just named Elon Musk's greatest contribution to America, and it isn't sitting on a launchpad.

Boyle, General Partner at a16z: "I think that Elon's most important contribution to this country is training two generations of engineers … on how to work with their hands again."

For a decade, America's sharpest technical minds optimized ad clicks and shipped messaging apps. Software consumed ambition.

The physical world became something you abstracted into an API, not something you touched. Building real things became what you did if you couldn't code.

Elon didn't reverse that with inspiration. He reversed it by building companies where you either understood manufacturing or you failed.

SpaceX and Tesla forced engineers to learn how metal fractures, how tolerances cascade, how one physical iteration costs months and millions. No hotfix. No rollback. Physics doesn't negotiate.

Boyle: "Training two generations of engineers."

The product was never the cars. It was the people.

Look at who's founding America's hard-tech companies now. The common thread isn't Stanford or MIT. It's time on a factory floor at SpaceX or Tesla.

They learned to weld. They learned that "impossible" means unsolved engineering, not violated physics. They learned that failure in the physical world compounds, because nothing reverts.

Elon didn't just build companies. He rebuilt industrial knowledge that had been decaying for thirty years while the country's best minds chased digital scale.

He made atoms matter again. Made manufacturing the hardest problem worth solving. Made physical engineering prestigious in a way it hadn't been since humans walked on the moon.

Boyle: "Work with their hands again."

Five words that sound quaint. They describe the moment America started building again.

The blueprints for the Saturn V still exist. No one can build one from them.

Knowledge that lives in hands doesn't survive on paper. It dies in a single generation of neglect, and no archive brings it back. That is how a civilization loses the ability to make things while still holding every document that explains how.

America was one generation from that. It got the generation back instead.

The best technical talent no longer asks which app to build. It asks what should exist that doesn't. From engagement metrics to launch cadence. From scaling users to scaling factories.

That shift outlives every vehicle and spacecraft he delivered. Products obsolesce. Engineers who know how to make things do not.

We stopped coding the future. We started machining it, welding it, breaking it until physics signs off.

Those engineers are training the next wave now. The School of Elon doesn't need Elon anymore. It's self-sustaining, spreading through a generation that learned the higher calling is building real things.

That isn't a business achievement. It's a civilization remembering how to make things.

You can copy a design. You can't copy a generation that knows how to build one.

[Harry V. Quackenboss @hquackenboss]

@Aizenberg55 I think you mean July 2026 not 2025

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@TraderGirlQ HI

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@eshanbuilds @FearedBuck At 60 miles per hour 280 Mi range is about 4 hours. How do you get 2 hours?

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@PaulGoldEagle https://t.co/dmEElgCGo5

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@sporsho_AI Claude

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@CraigBrockie GUIDE

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@Mashburn4NC NOT SO FAST. Term limits could give the unelected staffers who float around as elected officials come and go that meet with lobbyists, handle back room negotiations and help write legislation a lot more power.

[Harry V. Quackenboss @hquackenboss]

@FutureJurvetson @MythicInc @VenturesVc Silicon slide rule.

[Harry V. Quackenboss @hquackenboss]

@HustleBitch_ @SherifT78060270 He dismisses Musk, Zuckerberg, and others saying "they don't know anything". Those two are a lot of things but anybody who's been in the same room with him will tell you they're not idiots. The engineering to catch a used rocket with giant chopsticks did not come from DARPA.

[Harry V. Quackenboss @hquackenboss]

@HustleBitch_ @SherifT78060270 Jiang Xueqin, known as Professor Jiang, has a B.A. in English Lit from Yale. He teaches at a Beijing high school.

He is a Chinese-Canadian born in 1977. He grew up in Toronto, Canada, in a low-income immigrant family.

He is right about some things and wrong about others.

[Harry V. Quackenboss @hquackenboss]

@savagealtruist @HustleBitch_ Baloney. IBM published papers on System R, a research project that developed a relational database. Larry Ellison read the papers and developed a commercial one years before IBM productized theirs. The Multics product team at Honeywell Information Systems also did this.

[Harry V. Quackenboss @hquackenboss]

Grok sez:
"This is constitutionally permitted, precedented, and logistically trivial, as long as the person is subject to any form of federal jurisdiction over their liberty interests.

In short: The President cannot pardon the state crime itself, but he can, with 100% legal certainty, pardon the federal crime that arises from federal enforcement of civil rights, concurrent sentencing, or civil-rights enforcement, thereby freeing the person from prison,probation, or federal registration requirements. That is the person is freed. That is exactly, in practice, how a person convicted in state court can be freed by presidential pardon."

[Harry V. Quackenboss @hquackenboss]

@AlexBerenson You are not using AI enough.

[Harry V. Quackenboss @hquackenboss]

@AlexBerenson Grok says lightning strike.

[Harry V. Quackenboss @hquackenboss]

@Portwillmakeit @XFreeze Here's a start:

[Harry V. Quackenboss @hquackenboss]

@Portwillmakeit @XFreeze Or, you could ask it to give you a prompt to use so it will always give you the right answer.

[Harry V. Quackenboss @hquackenboss]

@flsunnysides @XFreeze @elonmusk Tell it not to guess, but if has to guess, state it's % confidence.

[Harry V. Quackenboss @hquackenboss]

Cloud seeding is used in California by multiple counties and water districts to affect rainfall using turboprop aircraft such as the Beechcraft King air. Records are easily available and in fact your favorite AI will generate a report about it for you. These flights are not the cause of high altitude contrails.