Leticia Gonçalves

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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.

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@pauloap Absurdo os comentários sobre a filha do Roberto Justus. Parece um ataque coordenado. Revela a hipocrisia daqueles que dizem defender os mais vulneráveis.

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@EuLubaDev Não aguento ela carimbando 😂😂😂

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@VezeteuRazvan Looks great!

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@summerson01 Não

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@farmDev79 Você viu a proporção de indianos com esse visto em relação a outras nacionalidades? Como eles conseguem tão fácil? Quase não vejo brasileiros… pelo tamanho do nosso país achava que tinha bem mais

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@alanomrv @rive_app Cool!

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@Hackwithseries I want an envite

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@summerson01 Qual?

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@paulo_avante10 Vai dar bom 🙏

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@Hackwithseries Nice. I would like an invite please

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@mazzeimotion @rive_app @contra What challenge is that?

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@sudoaron @henriquesbno Let’s see in 72 hours 😅

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@shuktv Caro é, mas o rodízio tá um preço bom, eles tem que lucrar de outras formas

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@Danat_Sh @henriquesbno Thank you for the link. I'll check tomorrow again. Right now it tells me to apply, which I already did