Chris Lewicki

I've spent a little time with @bryan_johnson. I've spent a little time with @nntaleb. My positive impressions of each man where shaped by that time together. I think it would be great if Nassim and Bryan were able to spend some time with each other.

@vast @NASA Browse the NASA CLD RFP requirements in an interactive concept demo (real data, live demo): interplanetarychris.github.io/cldc-requireme…

Vast commends @NASA for proceeding with a CLD procurement strategy to achieve an enduring American LEO presence while providing a clear opportunity for commercial providers. We value the structure, which requires companies to continue to compete on merit (hardware, technology, design progress) during the contract to earn additional NASA task orders. Vast supports the overall approach and appreciates the process NASA has established for taking feedback. nasa.gov/humans-in-spac…

Fun with data and agent-swarms.

@SciGuySpace What else would you want in a 21st century RFP? interplanetarychris.github.io/cldc-requireme…

@SciGuySpace If the US Government were more AI-pilled, NASA dropping an RFP for Commercial Space Stations in 2026 should look more like this (live concept, real data). Link in comment.

Ouch. "It’s got all the requirements, deliverables, and clauses of a cost-plus contract, but they are stuffed into a firm fixed-price bag." arstechnica.com/space/2026/07/…

@madprogrammer2 @SciGuySpace By today's standards, requirements should be in a machine-parseable JSON or XML file. Easy to count quickly.

@interplanetary @SciGuySpace Or maybe the list is just too long to count in a reasonable amount of time.

The Orteig Prize put Lindbergh across the Atlantic and ignited the airline age. The Kremer Prize produced human-powered flight. The Ansari XPRIZE opened private spaceflight. Today, we're announcing The Boom Prize: $750k in cash and $50k in Boom stock for the first American amateur-built radio controlled airplane to break the sound barrier. Judges are @rookisaacman, @lrocket, @DJSnM, and Phil Condit. The prize is co-sponsored by Alex Gerko, @ElectricCapital, @caffeinatedcap, @balajis, @Denver_Ventures, and @joshbuckley. Rules and registration on the Boom website. This is going to be exciting!

@PeterDiamandis What's possible *is* inevitable (in some universe).

Everything feels impossible right up until it's inevitable.

@PeterDiamandis Early could effectively be the same as being wrong.

Late is not the same as being wrong!

@MattGialich Bore-sight panel-registered mount for a laser-ablation asteroid mining device?

Anyone got any guesses as to what this is?

Fable is surprisingly stupid at following instructions to use lower-tier models for directed tasks.

China's Tianwen-2 probe is matching orbits with space rock (469219) Kamo'oalewa, in a 0.90 x 1.10 AU x 7. 8 deg solar orbit. The rock is about 20 meters across and has a mass around 7000 tonnes, and is the smallest asteroid so far to have been visited by a spacecraft

@PhilipJohnston Hard agree - Entrepreneurs fear hearing “no” so they never have the courage to ask for it, and many investors don’t feel comfortable saying it bluntly. Saves everyone time and energy!

A good fundraising process isn’t about getting people to say ‘Yes’, it’s about getting them to say ‘No’. 😯

"...from candlelight to satellites." -- beautiful! I'd LOVE to know the word that will complete this sentence: America's second 250 years took us from satellites to... [rhymes with 'satellite' and an essential innovation underpinning the economy]. @bryan_johnson may get to find out.

This is a premortem — the single best de-risking move there is. The only flaw is it lives in your head. RiskThing keeps it: surface what could go wrong, weigh your options, record what you decided. From billion-dollar missions to difficult personal choices. early access: RiskThing dot com

@DellAnnaLuca Exactly this. I'm building RiskThing to turn these questions into something you can actually hold onto — capture the risk, choose a response, come back to it later. Works for your life or your business. Early access: riskthing dot com

Quarterly exercise

@paulg This is a premortem — the single best de-risking move there is. The only flaw is it lives in your head. RiskThing keeps it: surface what could go wrong, weigh your options, record what you decided. From billion-dollar missions to personal choices. RiskThing dot com

What's interesting about these questions is the ratio of how important they are to how often you think about them. Every company probably could and should do its own version of this. In fact it would be a useful exercise just to decide what the questions are.