“You don’t have an option package for airbags. You don’t have an option package for seatbelts. Why should you have an option package for life-saving technology?” Austin Russell, Luminar Founder and CEO. #roadsafetyzeroaccidents $LAZR

The ultimate purpose of education is to change an empty mind into an open one. If you wanna be a good teacher, teach open-mindedness, teach enthusiasm, inquisitiveness, heuristics, and values.

Every astronaut in the history of spaceflight has traveled around Earth (even Apollo astronauts!). Humans who travel to Mars will travel around the sun - first to chase Mars, then to chase Earth to come home. Learn more cool facts about the Red Planet! solarsystem.nasa.gov/planets/mars/o…

Remember to register now for a chance to spend this Monday evening with Europe's top space experts at our very first #SpaceSafety Digital Festival!

The latest in experimental urbanism: volts.wtf/p/the-5-cooles…

The world must understand that better logistics is key to decentralised globalisation.

India received 1 Bn $ in Agritech between 2017-20 ! The triad of technological-financial- regulatory interventions pushed by Government is making investments in Agriculture sector a reality !

“What I love about science is that as you learn, you don’t really get answers. You just get better questions.” – John Green

On July 4, 1997 – NASA's Pathfinder space probe lands on the surface of Mars.

Customer: Do you have any two-watt, 4-volt bulbs? Sales Rep: For what? Customer: No, two. Sales Rep: Two what? Customer: Yes. Sales Rep: No.

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The thing I don't understand about haters is how they can be so certain something is a bad idea, or won't lead somewhere worthwhile. I never feel sure something will work, but any study of history suggests it's even harder to be certain in the other direction.

One useful trick I've learned for startups is to strongly consider features you're nearly certain your competitors cannot idealogically build but your users would love. What can you build that would probably lead to endless debate and require a sacrifice from some other business?

Ted Lasso’s Season 2 starts tomorrow. If you want a masterclass in character writing, re-watch the Pilot episode. My Hollywood screenwriter buddy did a frame-by-frame breakdown for me. The show’s writers make us love Lasso…and it only takes 157 seconds. THREAD 🧵

I would rather have questions that can't be answered than answers that can't be questioned.

What investors first paid for @Figma, which @adobe buying for ~$40.20 per share: $0.088: danny rimer/Index Ventures, Semil, Jacobsen/OATV A $0.199: John Lilly/Greylock Partners B $0.332: Mamoon Hamid/Kleiner Perkins C $1.098: Andrew Reed/Sequoia Capital D $4.619: Peter Levine/a16z

In the future, medicines will be programmable 🧬 An exciting day for RADAR technology:

Platforms built around community will reap benefits far exceeding than the one that remains in silos. Even the VCs firms leverage their partnerships into building platforms that cater to budding entrepreneurs. The benefits are huge but not doing so remains a blunder.

i'm announcing the company we've been building. it's called rime. here's a tiny demo of what truly generative text-to-speech can accomplish.

think with a very long time horizon, act with great short-term urgency and effectiveness, success guaranteed