The ‘madman’ is the first persona (step) of the creating process. It’s also my favorite – it’s full of newness, excitement, confidence, and every once and a while you get to let out your best mad-scientist laugh.   The madman doesn’t play by the rules. The madman has a goal... [Read More]

I’m preparing a short course about the prototyping process for a local startup hub/shared workspace.  Spurred by that, I’m going to spend a few posts organizing my thoughts about the creation of prototypes and the making process in general. Hopefully it’s useful for me and interesting for you. My approach... [Read More]

I wrote a post for the SSDS blog about the concept of massless space exploration and how my research ties into it. Check it out!

Awesome Space Links of the Week 9/29 It has Legos, I couldn’t resist. This advice actually applies pretty directly to research or any creative endeavor. Nothing new, but fun to see through the lens of Legos. Now here's a super Sunday I could get excited about (sorry football) It's especially... [Read More]

Inspired by an EconTalk episode about rational optimism, a Planet Money episode about dairy farming, a lecture about singular value decompositions and perhaps too much coffee, some more thoughts about specialization: As Russ Roberts and Matt Ridley point out, the positive feedback loop between increasing trade/technology and increasing specialization is... [Read More]