Forbes, thank you very much for recognizing us as one of the best Startup Employers of 2024!

Some of my favorites...

Nothing political to this. It just made me laugh a little. Baby Donald Trump on a tricycle. (apparently I am distantly related to Trump on the German side of my family)

A few others:

The armchair nitpicking of Elon and SpaceX by people with absolutely zero qualifications to do so is amazingly pathological. This has to be somewhere in the DSM.

Starship's fully and rapidly reusable design will exponentially increase humanity’s ability to access and utilize outer space. To unlock its full potential, and do it rapidly enough to meet commitments to national priorities like NASA’s Artemis program, Starships need to fly →

House SST is getting spicy....

Who stays is far more important than who was first.

I'm becoming concerned that the Vogons have become US citizens and have become the largest cohort of new US Government employees ...

Polaris Dawn astronaut Sarah Gillis performed the first known violin solo in space, playing "Rey's Theme," from the "Star Wars" series. The violinist shares how she prepared for the out-of-this-world moment to inspire the world.

I hit the Korean market down the road and saw octopus at a quarter of the price that Whole Foods charges. Nearly tasteless. Whole Food's wins...

I'm worried that the next Congress is going to either do away with QSBS entirely or find that SAFEs aren't equity retroactively and hit thousands of small investors/founders with big tax bills

A bipartisan effort should be made to update QSBS by increasing the asset limit to $1B and the exemption limit to $100M.

Whether you support Harris or Trump, neither spending on an Opportunity Economy for small businesses nor tariffs will grow the economy more than a simple workforce participation multiple. We need secular growth from NEW industries contributing 5+ % each to annual GDP.

Regardless of your personal opinion of SpaceX or its founder, you have to admit that AST and the regulations it implements were built for an era that no longer exists. Congress needs to step up and fix this. We need places to do dirty and dangerous things.

"A 'value proposition' based methodology for evaluating value network completeness and viability" ... working on a new paper for something that is sorely needed.

The new #AxEMU is designed as a 'single suit configuration,' requiring only a few modifications to go back and forth between the LEO and lunar environment; a big step forward for training, performance, and maintenance.

This bothers me because I fear US manufacturers think structural gimmicks like this will allow them to keep doing what they're doing rather than rebuild themselves to be inherently competitive regardless of the economic environment. bbc.com/news/articles/…

Stephen Fleming Jon Pelson Elon Musk #speedrunthetechtree A Third Derivative Future rocketforge.substack.com/p/a-third-deri…

So one of the criticisms of this essay is that it is short on actionable things to do and examples of policy/leadership done right. I'm probably adding some of that but I'm curious about what others think.