Pari Singh

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To all of those saying Boom has pivoted from supersonic jets to power turbines: please stop, this is an important misunderstanding. A pivot is when you switch from X to Y. Boom has added Y along the path to X. We're shipping one part of our jet (the engine) first as a standalone product (Y), then as an integrated part of our jet (X). Maybe someone someday will invent a term for this kind of strategy shift. It is not a pivot. For now, I'm calling it a boomerang. I hereby swear on my tombstone that we're not just shipping a supersonic jet, we're building a whole product roadmap of them. And we're not done until we have to teach our kids that supersonic flight wasn't always normal.

Because Jared Isaacman has to be diplomatic, here’s what he’s really saying: the Artemis program keeps getting delayed because it relies on technology that’s over 50 years old. NASA’s hands were tied from the start because Congress mandated that Artemis use legacy space shuttle components, including engines, tanks, and other systems. You might ask why Congress is playing rocket scientist, and doing a very bad job of it. It sounds completely insane, and the most likely explanation is that it’s designed to prop up favored contractors and supply chains in certain congressional districts.

Same company, btw

Over 100 years of diesel engine innovation vs less than 10 years of SpaceX Raptor evolution

This has been my major issue transitioning from aerospace to biomedical engineering. In aerospace, EVERYTHING is up for debate. you wana put the wings backwards on a plane? fuck it, Sukhoi su-47. Oh you want intermeshing rotors? Kaman K-max it is. In medicine, people flex their credentials (“doctor here 👋”) and rely on prior art: “usually are not” “standard practice” “typically not” EVERYTHING should be grounded in first principles and rigorous testing. Medicine is not like that, because of people like Dr. Kelly Morrison who look at a miraculous full body scanning technology that can see through you at unprecedented resolution- LITERALLY SCI-FI TECHNOLOGY- and can’t imagine using it for preventative means- simply because people haven’t done that before. You could give a magic X-ray gun to some third world, medieval shaman or witch-doctor and the first thing they would say is “yo we should scan everyone and make sure nothing looks weird inside”. How is this not the obvious response? I can’t see a future in which everyone isn’t getting MRI’d and having their images analyzed by AI. The future of medicine IS PREVENTATIVE. i don’t give a fuck what any doctor or pharma company says about it. Their incentive structures have been broken for the last hundred years. An ounce of prevention > a pound of cure. Please, for the love of God, think a LITTLE outside the box for once!

We’ve recently opened an office in Austin Texas. From the data I’ve seen average salaries in Austin about 25-50% higher than London, rent is about 30% lower for the same type of apartment and taxes are 50% lower than the UK. Plus you can live within 20 mins of the city in a multiple bedroom house with a pool. Then for most people their landlord comes to them at the end of the year to reduce their rent as it keeps dropping year after year. Turns out supply and demand is a thing and if you build a lot more housing rents drop. Who knew 🤔