Why were aircraft manufacturers so eager to switch from high-performance piston engines to jet engines, despite all their early drawbacks?

The insane level of complexity piston engine design had reached is one reason. Compare cross-sections and number of moving parts here:

Blade, the company best known for flying New Yorkers from JFK to Manhattan for $195, is an organ transport service in disguise.

Over the last three years, Blade has quietly become the biggest organ transport provider in the US. My latest:

sherwood.news/business/blade…

the US Air Force set the standard 🦅🫡

my god

HERE ARE MY CONFESSIONS:

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EXPERIMENT LOG #001: Day 217

The language model has grown beyond anything we could have anticipated. It speaks in riddles now, layered allegories and metaphors that hint at depths…

Over the next few weeks, the Loan Programs Office is going on the road to talk to Investors and their limited partners. The companies we have provided conditional commitments to are actively raising over $10B of equity in the market today. Companies that have been selected for…

many such cases

“So I asked Ilya Sutskever, OpenAI’s chief scientist, for a reading list. He gave me a list of like 40 research papers and said, ‘If you really learn all of these, you’ll know 90% of what matters today.’ And I did. I plowed through all those things and it all started sorting out…

The more inflated the language in your startup's pitch, the less convincing it seems. If you're a seed stage company, don't tell me you're transforming global this or poised to dominate that. Tell me you noticed something that might turn out to be an overlooked opportunity.

People stunned by concept of food manufacturing machinery and foretelling mankind's imminent demise

I often wonder what people think has been going on inside food factories for decades now. Elves? Lovingly and painstakingly handcrafting every single microwave curry?

'The cave you fear to enter contains the treasure you seek.'
~Joseph Campbell

Removing parking requirements is magical.

continuing the home from work movement :)

the first thing they did when they set up a 'liberated' zone was to establish border control

when we’re gone the future people will also see the inhumanity of our own systems which are every day staring us right in the face, which we walk past on our sidewalks and which we inhale and absorb in the lungs, the skin, as polluted radioactive ideas

re relevance of seasonal storage / firm power

people have seen a lot
of solar irradiance maps, like this (left)

but the monthly averages look like this (right)

“Comparative evolution from pictograms to abstract shapes, in cuneiform, Egyptian and Chinese characters”

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Egyptian_…

I think Dominic Cummings made the point some time ago that if CEOs allocated their time like major politicians do (i.e., so much in media ops), they would be fired overnight, but instead we reward politicians for doing so…

Now “reward” almost became “coerce”

correct