Category: Blog
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Micro g Production at Scale (and what it’ll cost)
Orbital manufacturing is the next layer of orbital infrastructure made possible by this decade’s launch technology. I explore its cost and promise.
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11 Things I learned as the Director of Operations at Texas Rocket Engineering Lab
In 2021, I served as the Director of Operations for the University of Texas at Austin’s flagship interdisciplinary rocket engineering lab, TREL. The position is effectively the student-lead for the two-year-old, 200+ member lab of undergrads and graduate students from all majors with all the makings of a CEO position at a startup – lots…
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2021 Report
This will be the first of hopefully a contiguous line of reviews of my experiences and habits of the previous year. This year was stunning. I didn’t blog on my 2020, but I had a relatively nice year even during that mess of a time – so the fact that 2021 stands out to me…
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Book Review: The Meritocracy Trap
Markovits’ The Meritocracy Trap is a thrilling and exhaustive examination of the conceit of merit that dominates the worldview of so many, and leaves me wondering if dismantling it is the only way to prevent the global order from crumbling, be it war, revolution, collapse, or plague.
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Approximate Prescience & Design Loops
I’ve spent much of the past semester studying for an aerospace engineering degree primarily practicing building models. Engineers are behooved by the physical world to devise ways of modeling phenomena such as to understand and take advantage of them. The reality of the situation is, of course, that every model must approximate reality. Thus, we…
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Some Asymmetries
The world is brimming with symmetries. This is, in part, because humans love to observe symmetries in things. Many evolutionary biologists theorize that at some point, we (as living creatures) evolved to associate this phenomena with health. We ate plants with symmetrical leaves and berries, we admired the symmetries in others faces, we survived for…
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Blockchain and the Mess We Make
Individuals are quick to forget that other people around them exist. I cannot think of a claim on human nature less difficult to defend. Just yesterday, a person on the trail I was cycling on suddenly moved into my path in an effort to pet a cute dog on the other side of the path.…
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When Selection Sours
One of the main traits that separates professional investors from the retail, I believe, is narrative tracking. Watching the quality of ones investment vehicles over time takes time and resources, access to data, and the ability to digest and act upon it. But knowing who the winners are in your portfolio and having the conviction…
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Moon Tracking
Why does the moon appear where it does in the sky? Why can we see it during the daytime sometime? When my mother asked me these questions while on a walk, with the daytime moon clearly looming some 400,000 kilometers away, I was frustrated by my lack of complete understanding of the path that the…
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