Matt Leitch

Thank you to all who followed me based upon a comment I made about my experience as a helicopter pilot! To intro myself a bit more, I flew UH-60s and was in the Army for 7 years with a combat deployment to Afghanistan. My last UH-60 flight was almost 10 years ago! Now I’m much more focused on my lovely wife, daughter, and son on the way! I don’t tweet often, but it will most likely involve faith, aviation, or robots!

@CBS19News If he is guilty, 100 years isn’t enough. 15 years certainly isn’t enough.

The total sentence would have put him behind bars for more than 100 years. cbs19news.com/news/man-sente…

@vedantnair__ We have a ton of independent variables when it comes to freight, so capturing the freight characteristics is critical. Just let me know, I’d love to hop on.

@MrStand_Fast Any metrics that you track specifically? Side note - need to get you on the pod one of these days :)

Don't let sloppy practices make your canary rollouts less effective. (With Cem Ersoz, Director of Robot SW at Simbe) The whole point of a canary is to catch problems on a small subsection of the fleet before they trickle out to the rest of the robots. But, this practice only works well if the slice is statistically representative. Like in Cem's case, it's tempting to roll out new software first with the customers you're closest to, the ones who will forgive a hiccup. The problem is that those customers aren't a random sample. The fix is ensuring diversity in the canary. For Simbe, that means not just grocery, but apparel and club stores too. The team found that different store types and geos gave richer data about the quality of their updates during the canary period. In Simbe's case, they also had to be thoughtful about when they rolled out software. Grocery stores look much different on Saturdays at 12 PM than on Mondays at 3 PM. Since Tally works around real humans, they needed to test these conditions too. This meant that solely overnight tests were a no-go. Make sure your canary rollouts accurately represent your fleet and operating conditions!

@ashleevance Really cool video, and some really interesting products!

Some dudes took over a ranch in Texas and are trying to turn it into a manufacturing mecca. We took our cameras and spent a couple of days there. I went upside down in a plane and did a study of Texan cults. It's glorious. Welcome to Proto-Town. Full episode here. If you haven't watched our shows yet, you should. No one does tech better. Core Memory on YouTube.

The hardest problem in robotics isn't perception, planning, or control. It's that the concrete is never as level as we hoped it was.

Is there any other way to read this than just buying yourself a job @ShowMeYourCIM?

@RapidResponse47 @WhiteHouse Did the guy in the bottom left might have hit one of his colleagues. Know your target and WHAT IS BEHIND IT

@danielcberk Shedquarters is the way to go. I love mine!

Should I build this office in my backyard or go rent a private office space ~1 mile from my house

@Osinttechnical Um, I’m pretty sure those are illegal in the District of Columbia

Shooter at the WHCD was armed with a rifle and magazines -eyewitnesses to the WSJ

The future of warehouse robotics isn't "robots replace workers." The real question: what ratio of robots can one skilled operator reliably manage? Get that number high enough and you've permanently changed the economics of logistics. That's the real race — not the hardware, not the software. The human-to-robot ratio.

Gartner says 50% of new warehouses will be "robot-centric" with humans optional by 2030. That's four years away. Most companies haven't figured out how to deploy one robot reliably yet. The gap between prediction and execution is where all the real work lives.

The engineering and creativity God demonstrated to bring about our world leaves me in awe.

Making churches a ‘third place’ is a net positive for society. More of this please.

Imagine winning this hard. Impossible

People often ask what skills matter most for running a robotics field ops team. Honestly? Not what you'd expect. It's: clear written communication, comfort with ambiguity, and the ability to stay calm when something breaks in a customer's facility at 2am. The technical stuff you can teach. The rest you can't.

Deploying robots into real warehouses isn't a software problem. It's a change management problem. The teams that struggle aren't the ones with bad tech — they're the ones that underestimate how much human coordination it takes to make automation actually stick. The robot is 10% of it.

@markbdelaney Surprised "% of days they wear a quarter-zip or vest" isn't in the assessment, honestly.

After a multi-month engagement with a top consulting firm, we have completely revamped our candidate assessment process for senior leaders. Here is a taste of what has changed: - Do they play golf? If not, then they honestly are just not going to cut it as a business leader. This is a really simple filtering mechanism with yes/no criteria that we assess will reduce time spent with unqualified candidates by up to 63%. - How many times is AI mentioned in their LinkedIn profile, posts, and resume? We are looking for a LLMPWC (LLM Per Word Count) density of at least .08 to ensure that we are only working with leaders who are on the cutting edge. - What is the color of the background on their LinkedIn profile headshot? Shades closer to #0A66C2 (LinkedIn blue) have a stronger correlation to "drive results" and "move the needle". We found that gray backgrounds were too middle-management (not sure what that says about me?). - We've replaced behavioral interviews with a single question: 'Tell me about a time you led a transformation.' If the answer is under 20 minutes, they're out. - After meeting in-person, we will evaluate candidates on the HFI (Handshake Firmness Index). Anything below a 7.4 suggests the candidate may not be ready to "lead from the front' and "take ownership" in a boardroom setting. We're confident these changes will position TWG at the forefront of evidence-based executive search. Reach out if you'd like a copy of the full 214-page methodology deck (retainer required) or would like to identify candidates using our new and improved methodology.

@aarondfrancis That was a wild ride of emotions!

As is tradition, here is a small sample of my bloopers from this new free course. It's hard work being normal

@emilypont Very cool project!

We are launching a big project today with MIT — The Electricity Price Hub! You can view monthly electricity prices per kwh and avg. bills for every major utility in the country going back to Jan 2020. electricity.heatmap.news

@BenJames_____ What’s the setup? Super interesting!

I made myself a mini fax machine. Dedicated phone number, instantly prints anything you text it.