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https://x.com/Firefly_Space/status/1896117316326244674
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Great article. Part of me wants to build a jet engine. Why? - great situation where the cost of development is astronomically bloated (3~5B for new engines) - You can bring it down orders of magnitude (100x reduction would be 3-5M, even less) with modern 2020s tech, perhaps (unchanged since 1980s) and aerospace co stuck in their ways, chasing contracts etc - and possible if you do it the right way. - Yes it’s naive, but this is how amazing things start Here’s how I’d do it: - 3D printed CMC blades - no multi stage axial, go simple single centrifugal compressor - basic cooling - no FADEC, just build simple like a ESCs/ECUs - no certification - find some exotic use case (experimental, defense, space, no FAA) Most of the bloat is in - R&D - requirements - certification Cut all of it. Do it in a shorter period of time (10 years -> 2~3yrs) https://www.construction-physics.com/p/why-its-so-hard-to-build-a-jet-engine
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Strategy is: ~ 50% total commitment ~ 50% setting up systems
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First of great book. Thanks for mentioning this @7858.eth One of the things that was striking to me about this book (that I didn't realize before I read it) is how much suffering Cosimo really spent most of his life to just get the family off the ground. Florentine politics, coming close to death in prison, exile, imprisonment. Really reminds me of Shoe Dog in a way. You're reading the story and going -- wait, we're almost done with the book -- when is the good part going to start? What happened, he's literally just suffering 90% of the time. This is brutal.
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Literally everything you know, everyone you know both good and bad happens on that little pale blue dot
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The universe does not hand out greatness like party favors That's a hilarious line
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If you are reading this: - You're much stronger than you give yourself credit for
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- Think in Centuries - Execute in Years - Love in Moments
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I read this and here's my take: - I couldn't agree more with many points articulated here - I think it does a great job, of grieving our current landscape of fragmentation. - Hard to move forward if we don't accept how things aren't great today, and only getting worse - Yet, again progress comes from crisis, and crisis is an opportunity - And if anything @cyrus and his writing makes me more optimistic about the future because ultimately because without fragmentation, there is no unification. without unification, there will never be another fragmentation - Especially the social side of things more (e/acc is only tech focused) where we are, who we are and what is happening -- in order to move forward where in the longer run the arc of humanity lifts us forward - Short term: it's easy to see where we are and be distraught - Long term: I continue to be unable to contain my excitement about the future, I really couldn't if I tried to
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The mid-curve meme is essentially a war against mediocrity
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A crisis is precious and shouldn’t be wasted
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Think about it this way: If I do something -- I want to do it well. Or don't do it at all. Ultimately, doing things is an act of love. If you don't love what you are going to do fully, why even do it? Yes, of course not everything is going to fall into this bucket. But why not maximize the amount of things you love. It can be something simple, like tending to a plant, or sending a message etc Why not? There is almost no downside to this
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I've never felt more optimistic about the future
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Hell yeah
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Imagine opening the roc camera box to find this little guy:
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Our boxes for Roc Camera are ordered and are arriving in a few weeks
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Are you not entertained
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The tapestry of human experience is so incomprehensibly diverse
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Peter Zumthor’s The Unterhus in Graübunden, Vals Have always wanted to stay here
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When I think about how The Ship of Theseus is happening at a cellular level, I think about how my neurons, and how my brain, my organs and my body are not what it used to be
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