“Wake up frosh! It’s Ditch Day!”  That cry, combined with the pounding of fists upon doors as seniors run down the halls, still elicits excitement in me now – 3 years after I graduated. It signals the beginning of Ditch Day, the most magical day of the year at Caltech. ... [Read More]

A small rant inspired by the space settlement video yesterday:  If you pay attention, throughout the video, the narrator continually refers to activities that will be performed by an unspecified group. Is it humanity? The population of the United States? Just you and the narrator? ‘We will go to L1.’... [Read More]

Yesterday’s post discussed an idea that would be a fairly significant shift from our current paradigm. Comparing shifting to tiered launches to this space settlement architecture is like comparing leaving the house five minutes early to getting a car when you previously bike commuted – orders of magnitude more change.... [Read More]

A cool paradigm idea: Tiered priority launches. Think about it – you wouldn’t ship a unique technology prototype the same way you would ship potatoes. There is a spectrum from courier mail (very expensive) to media mail, where they sometimes just lose the package or smash two together and mix... [Read More]

Alright – the last post about visceral incentives for a bit, but I have incredibly strong bipolar feelings about this Playstation advertisement.   On the one hand it engages me and makes me really excited! Who doesn’t want to be a classy, fireball-throwing, raging badass.  On the other hand, it directs... [Read More]