Thinking Out Loud

A thought about ion propulsion, startups and the small improvements that add up over time. What happens after you put everything into getting started?

I built a second brain to carry the context I lose when I switch between SEO and space research, then tested two versions on 300-something PDFs.

Mission Atlas began as a way to track humanity's space missions and became how I learned about trajectories, engines, and rockets.

When the urgent task is hard, we swap it for something easy that feels productive. The hard part comes back later, bigger, with interest.

Before you take the job, find out what your CEO used to be. An engineer-CEO and a marketing-CEO break their teams in opposite, predictable ways.

Skills depreciate. Degrees expire. The willingness to grind when it sucks is the only thing that compounds.

The uncomfortable truth about career growth: big brands won't make you better. Freedom to experiment will.

George Dantzig solved "unsolvable" problems because he thought they were homework. The same principle builds empires.

Elon's success isn't recklessness, it's a method. Breaking down 'the algorithm' he uses at Tesla and SpaceX, and how you can apply it.

Why the best business decisions start with data and end with intuition — and how to blend the two.

In the words of the genius himself: the speech Steve Jobs gave before announcing the Think Different campaign.