Infrastructure is destiny. On the Moon, nuclear reactors are this generation’s flag.
China intends to put a reactor on the Moon by 2035 — we must beat them.
cc: @DougBernauer
The most unhinged and socially unacceptable thing @Waymo has enabled is sticking your head out the window of the car like a dog to blow dry your hair… which I have now done on multiple occasions
about two years ago, @conaw told me that “women don’t touch door handles”
ever since, i theatrically race to open doors or press elevator buttons for my gf. i don’t think she’s touched a door handle in my presence since. we love love
So much of life is just ‘optics’, a wife that jumps up and runs over to you when you arrive home or a husband who jokes he’d never let you open a door.
Find small ways to create happiness. The difference between a life you hate and love exists in a series of ‘performative’ acts.
Why is building hardware so hard?
I realized a shocking amount of my life has brought me back to the question, so I wrote down a bit of how I learned (some of!) what it takes to really build a physical product + how deeply-integrated tech can soon help us do it faster.
dark abundance: an exactly right sized quake hits CA. zero deaths, all old structures condemned and demolished. concrete flows like wine. SF and LA reborn in glass and steel. CA hits 100m people, undisputed cockpit of spaceship earth. tectonic keynesianism.