I’m done online dating. Every pic this girl had was with a golden retriever. One pic was just the golden retriever. Then, I get to the restaurant, and there waiting for me was the god damn golden retriever! Most awkward meal with a dog I’ve ever had.
Putting 1 kg into orbit with the amazing pathfinder US Space Shuttle costed $54,500.
SpaceX’s sexy optimized Starship will drive this to sub $100 per kg to orbit.
I will put robots on the moon.
I don’t think people understand how big the unlock SpaceX has given us is. They’re driving the cost to put 1 kg into orbit to $100.
I have probably spent $1000 for a kilogram of DoorDash.
Engineering students have an excited optimism about the future and changing the world for the better you rarely find anywhere else. This light is too often snuffed out by jobs that have little to no meaning.
Fostering this excitement will be a large driver at XO Robotics. The future is not only bright, but vast. So vast that anyone who wants to participate will be able to, with great meaning.
Destiny awaits us.
An “ultra-millionaire” wealth tax will cripple everyone through secondary and tertiary effects. Companies will collapse from liquidation of illiquid wealth. Jobs will be destroyed. Scarcity will drive costs up. A lot. In literally every industry.
You will all feel it.
There was a device years ago from MIT, I think Hugh Herr’s lab, that imaged an amputated residual limb, all tissues and bones, for making prosthetic sockets, using a single transducer on a robot in a tank that had a 2D radial coordinate system.
I’m realizing more and more that building amazing products is just executing on obvious logical leaps.