Showing posts with label entrepreneurship. Show all posts
Showing posts with label entrepreneurship. Show all posts
Thursday, July 16, 2026

U.S. Military Goes Back to the Future

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President Dwight D. Eisenhower warned of the military-industrial complex in his " Farewell Address ."  In Power & Market Mur...
Saturday, May 10, 2025

Brain Drain

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Catching up on the weekends is difficult and I should have written this ten days ago when I first found the bifold handout in an engineering...
Monday, June 10, 2024

Jim Simons and the Quants

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Being centered on mathematicians, this book was not exciting, but it was interesting. James Harris “Jim” Simons (1938-2024) earned his docto...
Sunday, January 23, 2022

Massive Constellations of Artificial Satellites: What if they were natural?

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Many of my colleagues in astronomy, both professional and amateur, are vocal in their opposition to Starlink, the SpaceX project that is pla...
Sunday, July 11, 2021

Virgin Galactic VX01 VX03

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 A picture is worth a thousand words. NASA-TV cut between its own feed and the press feed from Unity 22. These are all sequential as present...
Monday, January 6, 2020

Amateur Astronomy for Pay

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Technically, of course, if you are getting paid, then you are not an amateur. At least, that is how the International Olympic Committee us...
Wednesday, June 29, 2016

Extreme Ownership

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Extreme Ownership: How U.S. Navy SEALs Lead and Win by Jocko Willink and Leif Babin, St. Martins Press, 2015. “So, there I was, knee d...
Saturday, January 31, 2015

Politics and the Inverse Square Law

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The farther you are from something, the less you know about. In physics, this applies to the force of gravity, to electro-static attraction...