What are we hearing on ship roll out, friends? I’ve been behind a steering wheel all day. 😅
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Thank you for giving us a day time ship parade, SpX! 🎉🎊 starbase.texas.gov/beach-road-acc…
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Jana retweeted
Friends, please pray for the entire Kirk family, who learned they'll wait until at least June 2028 for justice, news likely made doubly painful by remarks about Charlie this week that are beneath contempt.
On the “I’ve Had It” podcast, so-called culture commentators Jennifer Welch and Angie Sullivan laughed at the idea of digging up Charlie’s body and “doing it again.”
Then Dave Chappelle told a sold-out Madison Square Garden that “life got better” after Charlie was murdered, and that Charlie is now “looking up, laughing so hard he can’t breathe.”
I have often defended comedians, and I understand that pushing the boundaries of what's acceptable is part of the gig. But this is different.
This is laughing at the murder of a young husband and father of two small children, who was killed with a microphone in his hand, inviting those who disagreed with him into honest, respectful dialogue. Shame on you.
There have always been people in the fever swamps who cheer when someone dies. What is new is that it now comes from the main stage and is met with applause.
How did we get here?
This is what a culture looks like when it drifts away from God. Remove God, and with him any sense of the transcendent and the sacred, our objective sense of what is true and good is left in ruins.
What remains is relativism, “my truth” and “your truth,” and finally a game of power: my team against yours. In a world like that, a man's death can become a punchline.
Charlie understood this cultural disease and spent much of his life trying to heal it. It's why he went onto hostile campuses to sit with young people, many of them unmoored and unaffiliated, and make the case for God, for truth, and for a moral order beyond themselves. He listened patiently, argued charitably, and spoke openly about Jesus Christ.
It is my hope, then, that many more will take up this vital part of Charlie's work.
On the “I’ve Had It” podcast, so-called culture commentators Jennifer Welch and Angie Sullivan laughed at the idea of digging up Charlie’s body and “doing it again.”
Then Dave Chappelle told a sold-out Madison Square Garden that “life got better” after Charlie was murdered, and that Charlie is now “looking up, laughing so hard he can’t breathe.”
I have often defended comedians, and I understand that pushing the boundaries of what's acceptable is part of the gig. But this is different.
This is laughing at the murder of a young husband and father of two small children, who was killed with a microphone in his hand, inviting those who disagreed with him into honest, respectful dialogue. Shame on you.
There have always been people in the fever swamps who cheer when someone dies. What is new is that it now comes from the main stage and is met with applause.
How did we get here?
This is what a culture looks like when it drifts away from God. Remove God, and with him any sense of the transcendent and the sacred, our objective sense of what is true and good is left in ruins.
What remains is relativism, “my truth” and “your truth,” and finally a game of power: my team against yours. In a world like that, a man's death can become a punchline.
Charlie understood this cultural disease and spent much of his life trying to heal it. It's why he went onto hostile campuses to sit with young people, many of them unmoored and unaffiliated, and make the case for God, for truth, and for a moral order beyond themselves. He listened patiently, argued charitably, and spoke openly about Jesus Christ.
It is my hope, then, that many more will take up this vital part of Charlie's work.
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Jana retweeted
Today marks 5 years of @TerraformIndies. We've come a long way, and I'm grateful to be building in the excellent company of our team and investors.
Some actual content so @lulumeservey doesn't hate me...
Not all hardware start ups face this issue but for us our major risk has always been about controlling capex. There's no market risk for oil and there's no tech risk for synthetic chemistry that has been around for a century, but producing oil for $2000/barrel earns a participation trophy.
Rather than spend a fortune building functional prototypes and then another fortune trying to figure out how to suck out 95% of the cost, I placed firm upper bounds on allowable BoM costs for each system, then set out to figure out how to get it done. Some of the early prototypes didn't work that well but we kept iterating and ultimately every cent and, more importantly, every second was spent figuring out how to do it the right way. The way that accelerates great value into the hands of our customers.
History is unfortunately littered with expensive tech demos that spent millions teaching someone the wrong way to do something. At this point it seems unlikely that Terraform will die but if we do, it won't be because we spent our money on insurmountable tech debt.
The reason I'm sharing this is because it's always tempting to take the shortcut. To outsource some piece of mission critical kit or design, or to drop some gold plated component in that removes more value than it adds. Don't! The whole point is to spend your limited time on this Earth attacking the really hard problems. The things you want are on the other side of discomfort.
Here's to the next five years!
Some actual content so @lulumeservey doesn't hate me...
Not all hardware start ups face this issue but for us our major risk has always been about controlling capex. There's no market risk for oil and there's no tech risk for synthetic chemistry that has been around for a century, but producing oil for $2000/barrel earns a participation trophy.
Rather than spend a fortune building functional prototypes and then another fortune trying to figure out how to suck out 95% of the cost, I placed firm upper bounds on allowable BoM costs for each system, then set out to figure out how to get it done. Some of the early prototypes didn't work that well but we kept iterating and ultimately every cent and, more importantly, every second was spent figuring out how to do it the right way. The way that accelerates great value into the hands of our customers.
History is unfortunately littered with expensive tech demos that spent millions teaching someone the wrong way to do something. At this point it seems unlikely that Terraform will die but if we do, it won't be because we spent our money on insurmountable tech debt.
The reason I'm sharing this is because it's always tempting to take the shortcut. To outsource some piece of mission critical kit or design, or to drop some gold plated component in that removes more value than it adds. Don't! The whole point is to spend your limited time on this Earth attacking the really hard problems. The things you want are on the other side of discomfort.
Here's to the next five years!
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Just in time for Flight 15. 🚀
New Tesla Supercharger: South Padre Island, TX - Padre Boulevard (16 stalls)
tesla.com/findus?locatio…
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Valles Marineris! About 4,000 km long and up to 7 km deep, long enough to stretch across the continental US. The Grand Canyon would fit in one of its side branches, and our Mars pin never lets Arizona forget it.
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The map is original topographic art from public elevation data (shout out to @CJHandmer for the inspo). Valles Marineris is ~10x longer than Earth's Grand Canyon, and four miles deep in places!
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With success, this will be the first garment of many at Next Frontier Apparel. Beautiful, colorful and a little bit nerdy. :) Clothing made to start a conversation! 2cu1yi-pi.myshopify.com
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Hope to see y’all at flight 15! Can’t wait to see Starship caught by Mechazilla! 🙌🥢
📸: Oldie from flight 7
📸: Oldie from flight 7
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My first interview with @AdampBry, Co-Founder and CEO of @SkydioHQ.
0:06 Competing with DJI
2:41 Customer obsessed vs competitor obsessed
4:29 10 year hardware baking period
7:02 Production scaling challenges
9:34 Getting blacklisted by China
11:33 Product tradeoffs
14:16 drone
16:52 Good organizations are maximization functions
20:09 Payback period on a single product
22:10 Making existential bets
23:59 How political changes impact government sales
26:09 Privacy
28:48 Focusing on high leverage activities
31:02 Eliminating complexity
35:30 Drones getting destroyed
39:20 Hardware bubble
42:38 Rolling a hard six
45:53 Betting the company on drone docks
49:10 Vertically integrating vs finding great suppliers
51:46 Operating with your back against the wall
56:09 VC dollars vs cash flows
0:06 Competing with DJI
2:41 Customer obsessed vs competitor obsessed
4:29 10 year hardware baking period
7:02 Production scaling challenges
9:34 Getting blacklisted by China
11:33 Product tradeoffs
14:16 drone
16:52 Good organizations are maximization functions
20:09 Payback period on a single product
22:10 Making existential bets
23:59 How political changes impact government sales
26:09 Privacy
28:48 Focusing on high leverage activities
31:02 Eliminating complexity
35:30 Drones getting destroyed
39:20 Hardware bubble
42:38 Rolling a hard six
45:53 Betting the company on drone docks
49:10 Vertically integrating vs finding great suppliers
51:46 Operating with your back against the wall
56:09 VC dollars vs cash flows
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Early photo of a town that would one day become the center of rocket engine development and showcase a flying car.
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The Thunderbirds are wrapping up their 2026 season right now in Florida, with their final performance scheduled for November 7–8, 2026, headlining the NASA Max Power Aerospace Expo and Airshow at the Kennedy Space Center / Shuttle Landing Facility in Merritt Island, Florida.
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