Brandon Carter

2007 Texas Longhorns

Project Hail Mary has now crossed 100 reviews on Rotten Tomatoes and has risen to 96% 🍅 For comparison: → Interstellar 73% → First Man 87% → The Martian 91% → Arrival 94% → Gravity 96% PHM is now standing alongside some of the most acclaimed modern space and SF films.

You can only watch ONE group for the rest of your life ... Which one are you choosing?

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the most underrated hire right now is a great product person. when i say product person i'm def not talking about a product manager. perhaps i think there has to be somewhat of a new role. i don't have a good name for it yet but maybe something like "product thinker".. someone with an intuitive grasp of the product as it exists, where it's soft, where it sings, & how to iterate it toward something even sharper. in some sense, this person has to cohesively hold in their head where this product should be 2 years from now & work backwards from that. i say this cuz when building was hard, engineering was the bottleneck & the status hierarchy often reflected that. building is no longer hard. which means the variance in outcomes has shifted almost entirely to judgment on what to build, how to sequence it, & how to talk about it. & the story matters as much as the thing. internally, it organizes the team around a shared model of why. externally, it shapes the interpretive frame users bring to their first experience. you can't retrofit narrative onto a product & expect it to land, it has to be load bearing from the start. the rarest version of this person sits at the intersection of culture & deep technology. someone genuinely bilingual. they know what's technically possible & they know which cultural currents are real vs. ephemeral. that combo is what separates products that feel inevitable from products that feel assembled. before ppl clap back with this person has always been valuable, i know.. i am just saying now they might be the most *important* person in the room. their value compounds like never before.

In honor of the United States Semiquincentennial (the fancy term for America’s 250th birthday), this is your periodic reminder that the only copy of the Declaration of Independence located west of the Mississippi is, somewhat bizarrely, tucked out of the way on the 7th floor of the downtown Dallas Main Public Library. For Texans it is easier to get to than the National Archives in DC, free to view, and as an added bonus there’s a copy of “the most important book in the English language”, Shakespeare’s First Folio (one of, appropriately enough, only 250 to survive), located in the adjacent viewing room.