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Engineer | Passionate about tech ideas & connecting with visionaries for a better future. 🇨🇦
Ontario, Canada
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Many Canadians carry a deep stigma against building.
To be fair, we’ve built some genuinely hideous infrastructure and failed more than a few urban experiments.
But as an engineer, I believe the winning vision for Canada is Regenerative Futurism.
Stop building sterile, fenced-off stormwater ponds. Design living water systems instead, new rivers with waterfalls and trails, ponds you can fish in summer and skate on in winter.
Public space farming.
Next-generation greenhouses.
Timber bridges and retaining walls.
Rock, berms and natural grading.
Everything that makes Canada great can be designed into our cities.
We’re just too afraid of change and “risk” to make it happen. So we hide behind “environmental” no build policy.
The greater risk is refusing to evolve, and slowly losing the identity we’re trying to protect.
I’ll be sharing more examples of Regenerative Futurism and what this future can look like across Canada.
Follow if you want to promote a better vision for our future.
Those who think this is bad for $ASTS couldn’t be more wrong.
1. The better Starlink does, the more pressure it puts on MNOs to partner with @AST_SpaceMobile.
2. SpaceX already launches sats for $ASTS, and many F9 launches are about to be freed up. Imagine when starship launches open up to commercial launches.
3. The D2D TAM we dream about for $ASTS doesn’t even really exist yet. SpaceX proving this TAM is real will only add to $ASTS’s business model and interest. Realistically, even 15% of global TAM in 2035 will make a trillion-dollar company.
4. Once all compute goes to deep space, the LEO connectivity layer (especially D2D) will become extremely valuable. Let SpaceX prove this then $ASTS can join the party.
The space industry is an unlimited opportunity. We should cheer on every achievement by every company. They all lift each other up.
We are so early.
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I’m in Calgary today meeting with Premier Smith and energy executives about our plan to protect Canadian sovereignty by securing Canadian energy.
The Northern Shield Energy Corridor is at the heart of this plan, transporting Canadian energy in a pipeline made by Canadian workers using Canadian steel along an all-Canadian route.
Find out more: ontario.ca/page/northern-shi…
The difficulties of building and maintaining data centres on earth far exceeds the difficulties of sending them to space.
Not to mention the unlimited free power and almost zero environmental impact.
With the latest advancements in AI there’s no doubt in my mind that compute demand is going to continue to skyrocket.
Looking beyond $SPCX, $RKLB and $ASTS are positioned perfectly for this industry.
People assume a data center hums because thousands of computers are running inside it. Almost none of the sound reaching the neighborhood comes from the computers.
A GB300 NVL72 rack draws about 140 kW. Essentially all of it leaves the building as heat. Amazon’s campus on Tanner Way runs more than 400 rooftop exhaust fans, about 600 feet from the houses in Great Oak.
Prince William County allows 55 dBA at night at a residential property line, and campuses are designed to come in under it.
But here’s the catch:
Fans and transformers make low-frequency tones. Low frequencies travel farther and go through walls. Counties measure in dBA, a scale that barely counts the low end. A 73 Hz hum reads about 24 dB quieter than it is. So a site can pass its noise limit while the people next to it still can’t sleep at night.
How to fix this?
Distance. Sound drops about 6 dB every time you double it. Low-frequency rumble carries farther than that.
Enclosures and silencers. At xAI’s power plant in Southaven, Mississippi, a $7M sound wall went up last December, and the company promised a $12.8M earth berm as well, to screen the gas turbines.
Slower fans. The fans have to get rid of the heat, you can’t just turn them down. Amazon put new motors and better blades on all 424 exhaust units at Great Oak, made the stacks 3 feet taller and rewrote the controls to run the fans slower and in sync.
That cut the noise by about 10 dB, and the fans use less power doing it. It was a four-month retrofit of every fan on the roof. Amazon has never said what it spent.
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My project manager came into my office this morning to tell me she’s stepping down to become a stay-at-home mom.
She makes $68,000 a year.
Her husband earns $72,000.
They just had their second child, so she called licensed local daycare centers to get quotes for an infant and a toddler.
Average cost: $2,650 a month. That’s $31,800 every year straight out of their post-tax income.
After federal taxes, state taxes, and healthcare deductions, her take-home pay was roughly $3,700 a month.
After paying $2,650 for daycare, she was working 40 hours a week to net $1,050 a month…..or about $6.50 an hour.
She looked at me and said: "I’m literally spending 160 hours a month away from my kids just to clear $250 a week after childcare costs."
We didn't just build an expensive economy.
We built a system where holding down a mid-class job as a second earner costs more than staying home.
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Rocket Lab began as a small launch company. Today, our rockets, spacecraft, and components power hundreds of missions for science and exploration, national security, and commercial constellations.
Here's a tiny glimpse of how far we've evolved since Electron's first launch less than 10 years ago.
Rockets unlock space. Satellites do the work. We build and operate both.
This isn’t an industry you can just decide to join overnight and saturate the market. It takes at least 10 years of engineering pain and suffering.
If we’re talking in multiples of growth, the potential of $ASTS and $RKLB is likely greater than $SPCX.
Regardless, it looks like there will be lots of pie to go around.
🚨 Cathie Wood’s Starship math gets crazy very quickly!
Larry Goldberg @TeslaLarry breaks down ARK’s estimate that a single Starship launch could eventually generate around $1 BILLION in connectivity revenue.
Now combine that with Elon’s goal of 10,000 Starship flights per year.
The theoretical math? Up to $10 TRILLION in annual revenue.
Of course, there are huge assumptions here. Bandwidth demand, launch cadence, pricing, and network capacity all have to scale.
But that’s the bigger point.
If Starship goes from occasional launches to multiple flights per day, SpaceX starts looking like something very different from a rocket company.
And orbital data centers could add another layer on top.
The numbers are speculative. The scale of the idea isn’t. $SPCX
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Neutron operations are busy on Virginia's Eastern Shore. Our Hungry Hippo fairing has wrapped up pre-flight testing at our Assembly and Integration Complex while down the road at Launch Complex 3, we've completed installation of the ~10m test stand for Neutron's second stage. Neutron's thrust module will be directly tested on the launch mount itself, to verify rocket-to-launch mount interfaces ahead of full vehicle tests on the pad.
Beginning of the end for the microsoft office monopoly.
If you've been working in Cowork, everything is where you left it: chats, projects, artifacts, connectors, and skills. You can pick up where you left off.
Claude Design, Claude Slides, and Claude Docs are in beta on all paid plans. Read more: claude.com/blog/cowork-is-no…
Realizing my kids will be shocked that I was born before the internet.
My future grandkids will be shocked that I used to drive manually on the highway.
