Actuary, studying rockets and space physics at the University of Iowa
Midwest, USA
Joined May 2014
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The most disciplined people aren't fighting their emotions; they've just rearranged them so that doing the "right" thing feels easy.
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Distributism
@grok what is “Christian Distributism”? How does it understand and view Capitalism?
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The US government will give your startup up to $1.55M and take 0% equity.
@NSF's America's Seed Fund is open again after Congress reauthorized it in April.
Three tracks:
- Phase I: up to $305K to prove the idea
- Phase II: up to $1.25M to build it
- Fast-Track: up to $1.55M, both phases in one go
Who can apply:
- US-based startups with 500 or fewer employees
- 51%+ owned by US citizens or permanent residents
- Not majority owned by VCs
- All the work done in the US
How it works:
- Send a 3-page Project Pitch first
- NSF invites the best ones to submit a full proposal
- Next full proposal deadline: Nov 4
Phase I funding rates have run about 10 to 20%. It's work, but nobody takes your cap table.
Application link 👉 seedfund.nsf.gov
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If all trucking goes electric and the power grid goes down you have just magnified a catastrophe by orders of magnitude.
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The Bernoullis were more than a family of mathematicians; they formed a remarkable mathematical dynasty.
Across several generations, Jacob, Johann, Daniel, and others made important contributions to mathematics and mathematical physics during the 17th and 18th centuries, alongside figures such as Newton, Leibniz, and Euler.
Their story also includes one of the most famous rivalries in mathematical history. Jacob and Johann initially collaborated in studying Leibniz’s calculus, but their relationship gradually deteriorated into a bitter and very public competition, with the brothers challenging and criticizing each other over mathematical problems and priority.
Whether this rivalry actually fueled their achievements is difficult to establish. What is clear is that their intense competition existed alongside work of lasting importance, and their family became one of the most influential mathematical lineages in early modern Europe.
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Do not use your energy to worry. Use your energy to believe, to create, to learn, to think and to grow.
—Professor Richard Feynman
Epic gamers are in a different category
Charlie Munger said this on camera, weeks before he died: "I don't regard Elon Musk as truly rich, because I don't think it's sure that everything he's working on can work."
Then he went further. "I would not invest in Elon Musk myself."
Munger's reasoning wasn't about Tesla's product or Musk's talent. It was about pattern.
"He's used leverage so much that he's doubled down right to the edge of extinction maybe two or three times." Asked how many times Musk had walked that edge without falling in, Munger's answer: "he's done it three times. Maybe he's got six more."
This is coming from a man who spent six decades building Berkshire on the opposite principle. Munger and Buffett deliberately took smaller stakes than they could have afforded, using less leverage than was available, specifically so a bad stretch would never wipe out the people who trusted them.
Munger used the phrase "two hard pile" for things he'd rather not spend time thinking about, things he can't fix himself. He used it earlier in the same conversation for the risk of nuclear war. Elon Musk went in the same pile.
"I never met with him," he said. "As far as I'm concerned, he doesn't exist."
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(9) Stay far, far, away from AI. If you let someone or something else do your writing for you, you'll lose the ability.
Coolest NASA administrator of all time
If you give @NASAAdmin an engine, he's going to climb in it. This is a new @NASA under @rookisaacman, and I'm here for it! 🇺🇸
