Looks like we will probably catch the ship with the tower in a few months. If there had been a tower out to sea where we practiced landing the ship, it would have been caught.
First reflight of the ship will be either end of this year or early next. That will be a fork in the road of history for consciousness reaching the stars.
the only non ugly exit from us debt/gdp is nominal growth outrunning interest costs.
ai led innovation (particularly chronic illnesses being addressed + social services becoming efficient) + rise in productivity are the last remaining lever big enough to actually make any sort of dent.
everything else is no longer even an option.
This Ross Kemp's Extreme World in South Africa 🇿🇦 originally aired on Sky One on 29 Jan 2015. The casual way they describe gang rape defies description.
They don't have a shred of remorse & most worried about HIV & pregnancy. Absolutely no thought of the consequences.
BREAKING: Starlink submits a new application for direct-to-device connectivity in India.
The Gen 2 proposal covers nearly 30,000 satellites and includes direct-to-device technology, which could connect mobile phones directly to Starlink satellites, as per The Economic Times.
I gave Elon Musk's new Grok Bot an org chart instead of a to-do list, and in one week I stopped being a founder who does the work and became one who assigns it.
eight bots. one org chart. nobody sleeps but me. here's the whole design, steal it.
step 1 → 0:01 What we're covering
step 2 → 2:01 Installation & Setup
step 3 → 3:14 Building the First Bot
step 4 → 8:18 Teaching by Screen Recording
step 5 → 14:18 Putting it All Together
THE ROSTER:
Atlas, chief of staff. the only bot I talk to. I give it outcomes, never tasks. it decomposes them and delegates to the team in group chat, and it never does specialist work itself. it posts the plan every morning and what shipped every night, and it only comes to me when a decision is irreversible or spends money.
Scout, research. finds and qualifies my ICP. every day: 25 verified prospects, one line on why they need us right now, and a source. if it can't verify, it marks it unverified. it never guesses.
Quill, content. turns what the company learned this week into 5 posts and 1 long piece, in my voice, matched from the last 50 things I wrote. drafts only, it never publishes.
Pitch, outbound. writes a first touch and two follow-ups for everyone Scout marks ready. 60 words max, one specific observation about their business, one clear ask. queued in drafts, I approve in bulk.
Vault, inbox and ops. triages everything into needs-me, needs-a-bot, needs-nothing. it handles the last, routes the middle, and gives me five bullets on the first by 9am.
Ledger, analyst. one report a night: what moved, what didn't, and the single number I should care about tomorrow. no dashboards, no adjectives.
HOW THEY'RE WIRED
one group chat per outcome, not per person. Atlas sits in all of them. the bots hand off inside the chat, so I only read the handoff, I never manage it.
two rules that made this actually work:
1. every charter ends with a hard "never do this without asking" line. autonomy without a fence is just chaos on a schedule.
2. show once, don't describe. I ran the full workflow on my screen one time. that single demo taught them more than a page of instructions ever could.
WEEK ONE
214 verified prospects delivered. 89 personalized outreaches queued and approved. inbox at zero every morning. 11 content pieces ready.
THE POINT
most people are still treating Grok Bot like a smarter chat window. it isn't. it's the first time one person can own an org chart instead of a to-do list. my bottleneck was never how much I could do, it was how much I could hand off.
bookmark this.
Qatar Airways is rolling out Starlink at an incredible pace
The airline now has 150 widebody aircraft equipped with Starlink
The latest milestones:
• World’s first Starlink-equipped Boeing 787-9
• Entire Boeing 787-8 fleet already equipped
• Overall widebody rollout now 83%+ complete
• Full Boeing 787 rollout targeted by the end of 2026
• Up to 323 Starlink-equipped flights every day
And the scale is already massive
Since launching Starlink in October 2024, more than 23 MILLION passengers have connected across 86,000+ flights
Passengers can get free gate-to-gate Wi-Fi with speeds of up to 500 Mbps per aircraft
Starlink is rapidly becoming the new standard for internet in the sky
150 widebodies. 323 flights a day. 23 million passengers already connected
SpaceX is changing what passengers expect from in-flight Wi-Fi