Michael Murray

Husband, father of three. Founder @projecthaystack.

[Tesla @Tesla]

Roadster https://t.co/G0jU4mWfid

[Race 🕊️ @multiplanet1]

A retired NASA engineer who had worked on the Space Shuttle program for 25 years was hired by SpaceX at age 62. He described the first week as the most disorienting experience of his professional life.

At NASA, a design change required 3 meetings, 2 committees, a review board, and 6 to 18 months of documentation. At SpaceX, his new supervisor said "if it works, build it. If it doesn't, change it by Friday."

He sat at his desk after the first day and called his wife. He told her he felt like a man who had been swimming with ankle weights for 25 years and someone just cut them off. He could move. He could decide. He could build something in the morning and test it in the afternoon. The constraint that he had accepted as the nature of aerospace engineering turned out to be the nature of bureaucracy.

Within 6 months he had contributed to more design iterations than he had completed in his last 5 years at NASA. Not because he was working harder. Because the time between having an idea and testing the idea collapsed from months to hours. The same brain. The same knowledge. A different operating system.

He described a specific moment where he proposed a modification to a Raptor engine component. At NASA, the proposal would have entered a queue. At SpaceX, the modification was machined by the end of the day and tested by the following morning. He watched his idea become a physical object in 18 hours. At NASA, 18 hours would not have been enough to schedule the first meeting to discuss whether to schedule a meeting.

He told an interviewer: "I didn't get smarter when I went to SpaceX. I got faster. The intelligence was always there. The system was in the way."

The difference between SpaceX and NASA is not talent. NASA has extraordinary talent. The difference is the time between a thought and a test. SpaceX compresses it. NASA elongates it. The same engineer produces 10x more at SpaceX than at NASA because the bottleneck was never the engineer. It was the meetings about the meetings about the work.

[Michael Murray @outersource]

@JeremyClarkson you’ve got a fan that hates those sheep as much as you did ;) great show!

[Kevin Rose @kevinrose]

It's all happening... this time with some new friends/firepower... [early access link in the bio]

[Michael Murray @outersource]

@AnalyticAnna @bobwardms @GuyInACube love the new Fabric databases, but for someone that grew up using SQL Server on-prem, to Azure SQL Database, what would prompt me to start using Fabric databases for new projects or even make me consider migrating existing DB’s? #MSIgnite2024

[Michael Murray @outersource]

@Tesla Who’s the DJ @Tesla @elonmusk ?

[Michael Murray @outersource]

@AzureFunctions does the new Azure SQL Input Bindings (preview) support memory optimized stored procedures that also reference memory optimized tables? #sqlserver #memop #azurefunctions #azuresql

[Michael Murray @outersource]

@AzureSQL @AzureSQLSupport do you think you'll eventually offer in-mem optimized support for lower pricing tiers (basic or standard DTU's)? Would love to use this tech, but can't afford the minimum $500/month price tag at the moment :(

[Michael Murray @outersource]

@RMajidimehr do you know if SQL Server Express will ever support Synapse Link for SQL? Really cool that you have on-premise 2022 version supporting it, but would love to know if I have to upgrade all my express databases to standard to get that functionality or not #azuresynapse

[Steve Sanderson @stevensanderson]

Just published a shiny samples site for Blazor's new experimental datagrid package: https://t.co/qLQUIqxVGE

[Michael Murray @outersource]

@AdamSandler #hustlemovie is one of the best movies I’ve seen a long time. Thank you!

[IGN @IGN]

Experience Horizon in an all new way with Horizon VR: Call of the Mountain, an upcoming game coming exclusively to PlayStation VR 2. Take a look at how Horizon's unique gameplay translates to VR. #IGNSummerOfGaming

[Microsoft Power BI @MSPowerBI]

We're announcing the preview of datamart in #PowerBI!

This new self-service capability allows you to perform relational database analytics and uncover actionable insights from the data.

Read more: https://t.co/6kl7YwhFe5

[Azure SQL @AzureSQL]

Recap the big announcements at #MSBuild including #SQLServer2022 public preview, #AzureSQL Database Ledger & several new developer updates you won't want to miss - this week on Data Exposed with @AnalyticAnna
& @bobwardms.

Watch 📺: https://t.co/xDlYozQHqw

[Sahil Bloom @SahilBloom]

20 ideas I can’t stop thinking about:

[Gaurav @agarwal__gaurav]

Amazon reported net revenue of almost $470 billion in 2021

It is the world's second company to be valued at $1tn

Here are 10 marketing tricks Amazon uses:

[Aaron Bertrand @AaronBertrand]

BREAKING : All you NOLOCK lovers better read this!

A recent documentation update raises questions about the love-it-or-hate-it READ UNCOMMITTED isolation level.

https://t.co/98CE32DkVU

[Microsoft SQL @SQLServer]

Announcing the public preview of the link feature for Managed Instance for Azure SQL. The link feature allows for near-real-time data replication from SQL Server to Managed Instance using the proven Always On technology. Learn more: https://t.co/qzrXTLQD1K #AzureSQL

[John Nosta @JohnNosta]

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