Podcasts about fantastic future

If there's ever been a Know Your Enemy subject worthy of two episodes, it is Elon Musk—currently the world's richest man, CEO and leader of several pathbreaking companies, ringleader of the Department of Government Efficiency, and (for now) Donald Trump's co-president. In other words, to understand what's happening in the United States during the second Trump administration, it's essential to understand Musk: what shaped him, his enduring preoccupations and personality traits, how he made his vast fortune, and why, in unprecedented ways, he decided to go all in on Trump.In this second of two episodes on Musk, Matt and Sam bring his story up to the present. After offering a few concluding details on Musk's various romantic and familial entanglements, they chart the course of his political derangement, especially focusing on his seeming addiction to Twitter—the social media platform he eventually bought and renamed "X," which also is the name he gave one of his young sons. Musk's purchase of Twitter is treated as a case study in how the billionaire now tends to operate, from his penchant for making wild claims and impulsive decisions, to the way he manages people, tasks, and money. The discussion concludes with a theory of why Trump made such a show of buying a Tesla at the White House, and how to understand what Musk is up to with his erratic, ignorant work at DOGE, with plenty of eyebrow-raising details along the way.As mentioned: Join Matt and Sam and Jamelle Bouie at Dissent magazine's fundraiser on April 8 in New York!Listen again: "Becoming Elon Musk, Part One"Sources:Kate Conger & Ryan Mac, Character Limit: How Elon Musk Destroyed Twitter (2024)Walter Isaacson, Elon Musk (2023)Ashlee Vance, Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future (2015)Ella Yurman, "Vivian Jenna Wilson on Being Elon Musk's Estranged Daughter, Protecting Trans Youth and Taking on the Right Online," Mar 20, 2025Kylie Cheung, "World's Richest Man Allegedly Refuses to Pay Appropriate Child Support," Jezebel, Mar 21, 2025Faiz Siddiqui, "Elon Musk is worth $270 billion. He'd buy Twitter with an IOU," WaPo, April 22, 2022Theodore Schleifer  & Maggie Haberman "Elon Musk Seeks to Put $100 Million Into Trump Political Operation," NYTimes, Mar 11, 20225.Eric Lipton, "Musk Is Positioned to Profit Off Billions in New Government Contracts," NYTimes, Mar 23, 2025.Jessie Blaeser, "DOGE shared its receipts — and some of them don't match," Politico, Feb 22, 2025. Hadas Gold, "Trump says he'll buy a Tesla to support Elon Musk, whose companies are struggling," CNN, Mar 11, 2025.Sam Adler-Bell, "Capital without Borders," Commonweal, Feb 8, 2017.  ...and don't forget to subscribe to Know Your Enemy on Patreon to access to all of our bonus episodes!

If there's ever been a Know Your Enemy subject worthy of two episodes, it is Elon Musk—currently the world's richest man, CEO and leader of several pathbreaking companies, ringleader of the Department of Government Efficiency, and (for now) Donald Trump's co-president. In other words, to understand what's happening in the United States during the second Trump administration, it's essential to understand Musk: what shaped him, his enduring preoccupations and personality traits, how he made his vast fortune, and why, in unprecedented ways, he decided to go all in on Trump. To explore the life and times of Musk, Matt and Sam read several biographies, along with the best reporting on him and his activities (especially of late). In this first episode, they offer a close reading of Musk's childhood in South Africa and the people, and traumas, that shaped him; his discovery of science fiction and teenage fixations on computers, video games, and space exploration; his escape to Canada to attend college and eventual arrival in the United States; and his early years in Silicon Valley and the businesses that first made him very rich. As mentioned: Join Matt and Sam and Jamelle Bouie at Dissent magazine's fundraiser on April 8 in New York!Sources:Kate Conger & Ryan Mac, Character Limit: How Elon Musk Destroyed Twitter (2024)Walter Isaacson, Elon Musk (2023)Ashlee Vance, Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future (2015)Joshua Benton, "Musk's Anti-Semitic, Apartheid-Loving Grandfather," The Atlantic, Sept 30, 2023Henry Farrell, "Silicon Valley's Reading List Reveals Its Political Ambitions," Bloomberg, Feb 21, 2025Tony Tulathimutte, Rejection (2024)Kase Wickhman, "Elon Musk Has Yet Another Child, According to the Mother of That Baby," Vanity Fair, Feb 18, 2025Favour Adegoke, "Elon Musk's Trans Daughter Rips Dad For Allegedly Using Sex-Selective IVF For Her: 'I Was Going Against The Product'," Yahoo News, March 11, 2024...and don't forget to subscribe to Know Your Enemy on Patreon to access to all of our bonus episodes!

Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future

Eli Dourado is on a mission to end the Great Stagnation, that half-century period of economic and technological disappointment that began in the 1970s (what I refer to in my 2023 book, The Conservative Futurist, as the Great Downshift). If we want to turn the page on this chapter of slow progress and deserved skepticism, we're going to have to accept some creative destruction.Dourado believes that the courage to embrace major change is key to meeting our potential. Today on Faster, Please! — The Podcast, I talk with Dourado about the future of the US job market and energy production in a world of AI.Dourado is chief economist at the Abundance Institute, and author of his own Substack newsletter.In This Episode* The dawn of a productivity boom? (1:26)* Growing pains of job market disruption (7:26)* The politics of productivity growth (15:20)* The future of clean energy (23:35)* The road to a breakthrough (30:25)* Reforming NEPA (35:19)* The state of pro-abundance (37:08)Below is a lightly edited transcript of our conversationThe dawn of a productivity boom? (1:26)Pethokoukis:  Eli, welcome to the podcast.Dourado: Thanks for having me on, Jim.I would like to think that what we are experiencing here in the 2020s is the beginnings of an extended productivity boom. We have some good economic data over the past year and a half. I know this is something that you care about, as I do . . . What's your best guess?I think the seeds of a boom are there. There's plenty of low-hanging fruit, but I'd say the last few quarters have not been that great for TFP growth, which is what I followed most closely. So we actually peaked in TFP in the US in Q4, 2021.Now what is that, what is TFP?Total factor productivity. So that's like if you look at inputs and how they translate into outputs.Capital, labor . . .Capital and labor, adjusting for quality, ideally. We've gotten less output for the amount of inputs in the last quarter than we did at the end of 2021. So slight negative growth over the last three years or so, but I think that you're right that there is room for optimism. Self-driving cars are coming. AI has immense potential.My worry with AI is other sociopolitical limits in the economy will hold us back, and you kind of see the news breaking today as we're recording this, is there's a strike at the ports on east coast, and what's at issue there is are we allowed to automate those jobs? Are the owners of the ports allowed to automate those jobs? And if the answer ends up being “no,” then you can say goodbye to productivity gains there. And so I really think the technology is there to do a lot more to kick off a productivity boom, but it's the sociopolitical factors that are slowing us down.And I definitely want to talk about those sociopolitical factors, and the port strike is hopefully not a harbinger. But before I leave this topic, I suppose the super bullish case for productivity is that AI will be so transformative, and so transformative throughout the economy, both automating some things, helping us do other things more efficiently, and creating brand new high-productivity things for us to do that we will have maybe an extended 1990s, maybe more, I might hope?What is your bullish case, and does that bullish case require what they call artificial general intelligence, or human-level, or human-level plus intelligence? Is that key? Because obviously some people are talking about that.Can we have an important productivity boom from AI without actually reaching that kind of science-fictional technology?I don't actually think that you need one-to-one replacement for humans, but you do need to get humans out of the loop in many, many more places. So if you think about the Baumol effect, the idea here is if there are parts of the economy that are unevenly growing in productivity, then that means that the parts of the economy where there is slow productivity growth, perhaps because you have human labor still being the bottleneck, those parts are going to end up being massive shares of the economy. They're going to be the healthcares, the educations, the parts of the economy where we have lots of inflation and increased costs. So the real boom here, to me, is can you replace as many humans as possible? Over the short run, you want to destroy jobs so that you can create a booming economy in which the jobs are still available, but living standards are much higher.If you think about these big chunks of GDP like health, housing, energy, transportation, that's what you need to revolutionize, and so I can think of lots of ways in health that we could use AI to increase productivity. And I also have very little doubt that even current levels of AI could massively increase productivity in health. I think the big question is whether we will be allowed to do it.So you don't need AGI that is as good as a human in every single thing that a human might do to limit the number of humans that are involved in providing healthcare. Housing, I think there's construction robots that maybe could do it, but I think the main limits are, like land use regulation, more sociopolitical. In energy, it's kind of the same thing, NIMBYism is kind of the biggest thing. Maybe there's an R&D component that AI could contribute to. And then in transportation, again, we could automate a lot of transportation. Some of that's happening with autonomous cars, but we are having trouble automating our ports, for example, we're having trouble automating cargo railroads for similar make-work reasons.I think the bull case is you don't need AGI, really, really sophisticated AI that can do everything, but you do need to be able to swap out human workers for even simpler AI functions.I don't actually think that you need one-to-one replacement for humans, but you do need to get humans out of the loop in many, many more places.Growing pains of job market disruption (7:26)I'm sure that some people are hearing you talk about swapping out human workers, replacing human workers. They're thinking, this is a world of vast technologically-driven unemployment; that is what you are describing. Is that what you're describing?Not at all. If we had the kind of productivity boom we're talking about, the economy would be so incredibly hot, and you need that hot market. People have all kinds of fantasies about how good AI could get. Can it substitute for a human in every single thing? And I'm not even positing that. I'm saying if we could just get it good enough to substitute in some things, the economy's going to be booming, it's going to be hot, there will still be things that humans can do that AIs can't. There's lots of things that maybe we want a human to do, even if the AI can do it, and we will be able to afford that a lot better.I think that the world I'm thinking about is one where living standards are way higher for everybody — and higher levels of equality, even. If you have the sort of uneven productivity gains that we've had for the last several decades, where tech does really well, but every other part of the economy does badly, well, that drives a lot of regional inequality, that drives a lot of different kinds of demographic inequality, and if we had broad-base productivity growth, that means better living standards for everybody, and I think that's what we should aim for.When I talk about what you've been referring to as these sociopolitical factors or how we might slow down progress, slow down automation, the whimsical example I use is there being a law saying that yes, you can have kiosks in every McDonald's, but you have to have an employee standing next to the kiosk to actually punch the buttons.As you mentioned with this port worker strike, we don't need my scenario. That is kind of what's happening on these ports, where there could be a lot more automation, but because of both unions and our acquiescence to these unions, we don't have the kind of automation — forget about sci-fi — that doesn't exist in other places in the world. And I wonder if that doesn't sort of encapsulate, at least in this country, the challenge: Can we get our heads around the idea that it's okay in the long run, that there will be some downsides, and some people might be worse off, and we need to take care of those people, but that's the disruption we need to tolerate to move forward?You can't have a growing economy where there's no churn, where there's no displacement, where it's complete, where there's no dynamism. You need to be able to accept some level of change. I sympathize with people whose jobs get destroyed by automation. It is hard, but it's much less hard if the economy is super hot because we've been prioritizing productivity growth, and if that were the case, I think we'd find new jobs for those people very quickly. The process is not automatic, but it's much slower when you have low productivity growth and a stagnant economy than it is when you have high productivity growth and a booming economy.The question I always get is, what about the 60-year-old guy? What's he going to do? And I'm not sure I have a much better answer. Maybe there's other jobs, but it's tough to transition, so maybe the answer there is you cut him a check, you cut that 60-year-old a check, and if you have a high-productivity economy, you have the resources for that to be an option.Right! So that's the other thing is that we can afford to be generous with people if we have a really rapidly growing economy. It's that we don't have the resources if we're stagnating, if we're already overextended fiscally, that's a terrible position to be in because you can't actually afford to be generous. And if there are people that truly, like you said, maybe they're very old and it doesn't make sense to retrain, or something like that, they're near retirement, yeah, absolutely, we can afford that much better when GDP is much higher.Where do you think, as a nation, our head is at as far as embracing or not being fearful of disruption from technological change? If I only looked at where our head was at with trade, I would be very, very worried about entering a period of significant technological disruption, and I would assume that we will see lots and lots of pushback if AI, for instance, is the kind of important, transformative, general purpose technology that I hope it is.Again, if I look at trade, I think, “Boy, there's going to be a lot of pushback.” Then again, when I think about risk broadly, and maybe it's not quite the same thing, I think, “Well, then again, we seem to be more embracing of nuclear energy, which shows maybe — it's not the same thing, but it shows a greater risk tolerance.” And I'm always thinking, what's our societal risk tolerance? Where do you think we're at right now?I think most people, most Americans, don't actually think in those terms. I think most Americans just think about, “How are things going for me?” They kind of evaluate their own life, and if their communities, or whatever, have been struggling due to trade stuff, or something like that, they'll be against it. So I think the people who think in these more high-level terms, it's like societal elites, and I think normal people who have just lived under 50 years of stagnation, they're kind of distrustful of the elites right now: “I don't pay attention to policy that closely, and my life is bad, at least in some dimensions is not as good as I wanted it to be, it's hasn't had the increase that my parents' generation had,” or something like that. And they're very distrustful of elites, and they're very mad, and you see this nihilistic populism popping up.You see kind of a diverse array of responses to this nihilistic populism. Some people might say, “Well yeah, elites really have messed up and we need to do what the common people want.” And then the other people are like, “No, we can't do that. We need to stay the course.” But I think that there's a hybrid response, where it's like, the elites really have done bad, but we don't just want to do what the populists want, we want to just have better elite-led policies, which include things like, we have to take productivity growth seriously, we can't just paper over a lot of the tensions and the conflicts that arise from that, we need to embrace them head-on and do everything we can to produce an economy that is productive, that works for everybody, but maybe not in the way that the populists think it will work.You can't have a growing economy where there's no churn, where there's no displacement, where it's complete, where there's no dynamism. You need to be able to accept some level of change.The politics of productivity growth (15:20)I would love to see what American politics looks like if the rest of this decade we saw the kind of economic productivity and wage growth that we saw in the fat part of the 1990s. We act like the current environment, that's our reality, and that's our reality as far as the eye can see, but I'll tell you, in the early '90s, there was a lot of gloom and doom about the economy, about productivity, how fast we could grow, the rise and fall of great powers, and America was overstretched, and after really three or four years of strong growth, it's like America Triumphant. And I'm wondering if that would be the politics of 2030 if we were able to generate that kind of boom.Yeah, I think that's totally right. And if you look at total factor productivity, which is my KPI [key performance indicator] or whatever, if you look at 1995 to 2005, you were back to almost two percent growth, which is what we had from 1920 to 1973. So you had a slow period from 1973 to 1995, and an even slower period since 2005, and you get back to that two percent. That's the magic number. I think if we had TFP at two percent, that changes everything. That's a game-changer for politics, for civility, for social stability, we'd really be going places if we had that.I was mentioning our reaction to trade and nuclear power. The obvious one, which I should have mentioned, is how we are reacting to AI right now. I think it's a good sign that Congress has not produced some sort of mega regulation bill, that this recent bill in California was not signed by Governor Newsom. Congress has spent time meeting with technologists and economists trying to learn something about AI, both the benefits and risks.And I think the fact that it seems like, even though there was this rush at some point where we needed to have a pause, we needed to quickly regulate it, that seems to have slowed down, and I think that's a good sign that perhaps we're able to hit a good balance here between wanting to embrace the upside and not utterly panicking that we're producing the Terminator.Absolutely. I think AI is something where the benefits are very clear, we're starting to see them already. The harms are extremely hypothetical, it's not evidence-based, it's really a lot of sci-fi scenarios. I think the right attitude in that kind of world is to let things ride for a while. If there are harms that arise, we can address them in narrowly tailored ways.I think government is sometimes criticized for being reactive, but reactive is the right approach for a lot of issues. You don't want to slow things down preemptively. You want to react to real facts on the ground. And if we need to react quickly, okay, we'll react quickly, but in a narrowly tailored way that addresses real harms, not just hypothetical stuff.I love what you're saying there about reaction. I'm a big preparer. I love preparation. If I'm going to go anywhere, I over-prepare for all eventualities, I will bring a messenger bag so if the world should end while I'm out, I'll be okay. I love to prepare. But one lesson I draw from the pandemic is that only gets you so far, preparation, because before the pandemic, there were a gazillion white papers about the possibility of a pandemic, all kinds of plans as a culture, we were sort of marinating in pandemic apocalypse films, maybe about turning us into zombies rather than giving us a disease.And then when we finally have a pandemic, it's like, “Where's the respirators? Where's this, where's that? We didn't have enough of this.” And so, while I'm sure preparation is great, what really helped us is we reacted. We reacted in real time because we're a rich country, we're a technologically advanced country, and we came up with a technological fix in a vaccine. To me — and again, I'm not sure how this is you meant it — but the power of being able to react effectively, boy, that's a pretty good capability of a well-functioning country.Yeah, and a slight difference between the pandemic and AI is it was not the first pandemic. AI is just such a unique set of theorized risks that people are like, nothing like this has ever happened before. This is like the introduction of a brand new super-intelligent species to the planet. This is the first time two intelligent species — if you want to count humans as an intelligent species — two intelligent species will the planet at the same time. And the theorization here is just so far out of the spectrum of our experience that it is hard to even see how you could prepare if those risk materialize. The only intelligent thing that is likely to do any good is to have our eyes open, and let's see what the harms are as they materialize.The problem with coming up with remedies for theorized harms is that the remedies never go away once they're implemented. Safety regulation never gets laxer over time. And so if you're implementing safety regulations because of real safety problems, okay, fair play, to some extent. I think in some dimensions we're too safe, but it kind of makes sense. But if you're doing it to just theorized harms that have never materialized, I think that's a big mistake.And you've written about this fairly recently. To me, there's a good kind of complexity with an economy that you have a high-functioning economy where people can connect, and colleges and universities, and businesses, and entrepreneurs, these networks work together to produce computer chips or large language models. That's a good kind of complexity.But then there's the other kind of complexity, in which you just have layer after layer of bureaucracy, and programs meant to solve a problem that was a problem 20 years ago and is no longer a problem, and that kind of complexity, that's not the kind we want, right?Yeah, I think you want the sophistication in the economy, but in a way that works for everybody. There have to be benefits to it. If you increase the burden of complexity without producing any net benefits, then people start to rebel against it, they start to be indifferent to or apathetic about the health of society. And there's an anthropologist, Joseph Tainter, who wrote this book, The Collapse of Complex Societies, and his theory is that once you have complexity without the marginal benefits of complexity, you're in for a shock, at some point, when people start becoming apathetic or hostile to the current order. And the complexity grows and shrinks as a system, you can't ever just control like, “Oh, let's do more, or let's do one percent less complexity.” Once people start to rebel against it, it snowballs and you could end up with a very bad situation.The problem with coming up with remedies for theorized harms is that the remedies never go away once they're implemented. Safety regulation never gets laxer over time.The future of clean energy (23:35)Nuclear versus solar versus geothermal: What do you like there?Solar panels have massively come down in cost, and we're not that far away from — in sort of number of doublings of deployment, and sort of long-deployment space — we're not that far away from the cost being so low that . . . you could almost round the panels cost to free. It almost makes sense. And the problem is, if you look at the solar electricity costs on utility-scale farms, they have not really moved in the last few years. And I think this is in large part because we're designing the solar farms wrong, we're not designing them for the era of cheap panels, we're designing them, still, to track the sun, and complex mechanisms, and too much space between the panels, and too much mowing required, and all that. So as we adapt to the new paradigm of very, very cheap panels, I think that you'll get lower solar costs.I think the other thing that is obviously complimentary to all of these sources actually is battery innovation. I'm very excited about one particular new cathode chemistry that maybe could drive the cost way, way down for lithium ion batteries. And so you're in a world where solar and batteries is potentially very, very cheap. And so for nuclear and geothermal, they have some advantages over solar.If batteries get cheap, the advantage of not the firmness . . . I think people think that the advantage of these sources versus solar is just that solar is variable and the other sources are constant, but that's less of an advantage if batteries are cheap, and I think you also want batteries to be able to respond to the fluctuations in demand. If we had an entirely nuclear-powered economy, the nuclear plants actually want to run at constant speed. You don't want to ramp them up and down very quickly, but demand fluctuates. And so you still want batteries to be a buffer there and be the lowest-cost way to balance the network.So the things that nuclear and geothermal can really compete on is land density — even gigawatt-scale nuclear where you have these giant exclusion zones and tons of land around them and so on, they're still more dense per acre than solar, and geothermal is maybe even denser because you don't need that exclusion zone, and so they could be much, much better in terms of density.There's an advantage — if you want a lot of power in a city, you probably want that to be supplied by nuclear. If you're more rural, you could do solar. Another possibility is portability. So there's future versions of nuclear that are more mobile. People have talked about space-based nuclear for being able to go to Mars or something like that, you want thermonuclear propulsion and you can't do that with solar. Or powering submarines and stuff. So I think there's always a place for nuclear.And then the other advantage for both nuclear and geothermal is if you don't need to produce electricity. So if you're producing just the heat — it turns out a big part of the cost of any sort of thermal source is converting it to electricity. You have to have these giant steam turbines that are very capital intensive. And so, if you just need heat, say up to 600 degrees C heat for nuclear and maybe 400 degrees C heat for deep geothermal, those are really good sources for doing that, and maybe if we had continued advances in drilling technology for geothermal or if we could figure out the regulatory stuff for nuclear, I think you could have very cheap industrial thermal energy from either of those sources.Nuclear and geothermal are competing against a backdrop where we'll probably have pretty cheap solar, but there's still some advantages and these sources still have some utility and we should get good at both of them.What do you think that energy mix looks like in 25 years, the electrical generation mix for this country?It would be surprising if it wasn't a lot of solar. My friend Casey Handmer thinks it's going to be 90-plus percent solar, and I think that's a little crazy.Do you happen to know what the percent is now?Oh, I don't know. It's probably like three or four or something like that, off the top of my head, maybe less. The other question is, what's the base? I think a lot of people just want to replace the energy we have now with clean energy, and much more we need to be thinking about growing the energy supply. And so I think there's a question of how much solar we could deploy, but then also how much other stuff are we deploying? Let's do a lot of everything. You do have to drive the cost of some of these sources down a bit for it to make sense, but I think we can.And then the real gains happen when maybe some of these . . . what if you could do some sort of conversion without steam turbines? What if you had ways to convert the thermal energy to electricity without running a steam cycle, which is hundreds-of-year-old technology? EssentiallyYou're just finding a new way to heat it up.Yeah, so you look at why has solar come down so much? It's because it's solid-state, easy to manufacture, any manufacturing process improvements just move forward to all future solar panels. If we had thermoelectric generators or other ways of converting the heat to electricity, that could be really great, and then there's other kinds of nuclear that are like solid-state conversion, like alpha voltaics and things like that. So you could have a box with cobalt 60 in it that's decaying and producing particles that you're converting to electricity, and that would be solid state. It's sometimes called a “nuclear battery,” it's not really a battery, but that would be a way to power cars maybe with something like that. That would be awesome.Nuclear and geothermal are competing against a backdrop where we'll probably have pretty cheap solar, but there's still some advantages and these sources still have some utility and we should get good at both of them.The road to a breakthrough (30:25)When, if ever, this century, do you think we get AGI, and when, if ever, this century, do you think we get a commercial fusion reactor?AGI, I'm still not really a 100 percent clear on how it's defined. I think that AI will get increasingly more capable, and I think that's an exciting future. Do we even need to emulate every part of the human brain in silicon? I don't think so. Do we need it to have emotions? Do we need it to have its own independent drive? We definitely don't need it to be a perfect replica of a human brain in terms of every capability, but I think it will get more capable over time. I think there's going to be a lot of hidden ways in which AGI, or powerful AI, or highly capable AI is going to happen slower than we think.I think my base reasoning behind this is, if you look at neurons versus transistors, neurons are about a million times more energy efficient. So six orders of magnitude is kind of what we have to traverse to get something that is equally capable. And maybe there's some tricks or whatever that you can do that means you don't have to be equally capable on an energy basis, but you still need to get four orders of magnitude better. And then the other thing about it is that, if you look at current margins that people are working on, things like the ChatGPT o1 model, it's a lot slower, it does a lot of token generation behind the scenes to get the answer, and I think that that's the kind of stuff that could maybe drive progress.Let's say we have a world where you ask an AI for a cure for cancer, and you run it on a big data center, and it runs for six months or a year, and then it spits out the answer, here's the cure for cancer, that's still a world where we have very, very powerful AI, but it's slow and consumes a lot of resources, but still ultimately worth it. I think that might be where we're headed, in a way, is that kind of setup. And so is that AGI? Kind of. It's not operating the same way as humans are. So this is different.You're not going to fall in love with it. It's nothing like that.I'm pretty uncertain about AGI: A) what it means, but what does it even look like in the end?Fusion, I'll give you a hot take here, which is, I think there will be net energy gain fusion developed in this decade. I think that someone will have it. I think that probably the first people to get it will be doing it in a completely uneconomical way that will never work economically. Most of the people that are working on fusion are working on DT fusion, which is another one of these sources that basically produces heat, and then you use a steam turbine, and then that produces electricity. I think that the steam turbine is just a killer in terms of the added costs.So all these sources are basically fancy ways of boiling water and then running a steam turbine. So what you want to look at is: What is the cheapest way to boil water? With fission, you just hold two magic rocks together and they boil water. With geothermal, you drill a hole in the ground and send water down there and it boils. With these DT fusion reactors, you build the most complex machine mankind has ever seen, and you use that to boil water — that's not going to be as cheap as fission should be. So I think that we'll struggle to compete with fission if we can ever get our act together.There's other kinds of fusion called aneutronic fusion. That's harder to do. I think it's still possible, maybe this decade, that someone will crack it, but that's harder to do. But the nice thing about that is that you can harvest electricity from those plasmas without a steam turbine. So if it's going to be economical fusion, I think it's plausible by 2030 somebody could crack it, but it would be that aneutronic version, and it is just technically a bit harder. You'll see some reports in a couple of years, like, “Oh, these people, they got net energy out of a fusion reactor.” It's like, okay, it's a scientific breakthrough, but look for the cost. Is it going to be competitive with these other sources?Do we even need to emulate every part of the human brain in silicon? I don't think so . . . We definitely don't need it to be a perfect replica of a human brain in terms of every capability, but I think it will get more capable over time.Reforming NEPA (35:19)Do you think we've sort of got a handle, and we've begun to wrangle the National Environmental Policy Act [NEPA] to the ground? Where are we on reforming it so that it is not the kind of obstacle to progress that you've written so much about and been a real leader on?My base scenario is we're going to get reforms on it every two years. So we had some a year and a half ago with the Fiscal Responsibility Act, I think we were possibly going to get some in the lame duck session this year in Congress. None of these reforms are going to go far enough, is the bottom line. I think that the problem isn't going to go away, and so the pressure is going to continue to be there, and we're just going to keep having reforms every two years.And a lot of this is driven by the climate movement. So say what you will about the climate movement, they're the only mainstream movement in America right now that's not complacent, and they're going to keep pushing for, we've got to do something that lets us build. If we want to transform American industry, that means we've got to build, and NEPA gets in the way of building, so it's going to have to go.So I think my baseline case is we get some reforms this year in the lame duck, probably again two years later, probably again two years later, and then maybe like 2030, people have kind of had enough and they just say, “Oh, let's just repeal this thing. We keep trying to reform it, it doesn't work.” And I think you could repeal NEPA and the environment would be fine. I am pro-environment, but you don't need NEPA to protect the environment. I think it's just a matter of coming to terms with, this is a bad law and probably shouldn't exist.I am pro-environment, but you don't need NEPA to protect the environment. I think it's just a matter of coming to terms with, this is a bad law and probably shouldn't exist.The state of pro-abundance (37:08)What is the state of, broadly, a pro-abundance worldview? What is the state of that worldview in both parties right now?I think there's a growing, but very small, part of each party that is thinking in these terms, and I think the vision is not really concrete yet. I think they don't actually know what they're trying to achieve, but they kind of understand that it's something in this general direction that we've been talking about. My hope is that, obviously, the faction in both parties that is thinking this way grows, but then it also develops a little bit more of a concrete understanding of the future that we're trying to build, because I think without that more-concrete vision, you're not actually necessarily tackling the right obstacles, and you need to know where you're trying to go for you to be able to figure out what the obstacles are and what the problems you need to address are.Faster, Please! is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. 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Ashlee Vance is a feature writer at Bloomberg Businessweek, host of the innovator-focused travel show Hello World, and the New York Times bestselling author of two books: Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future, and most recently, When the Heavens Went on Sale: The Misfits and Geniuses Racing to Put Space Within Reach, which was the inspiration for his new HBO documentary Wild Wild Space. Wild Wild Space - Trailerashleevance.comGround News gathers news coverage from around the world, empowers free thinking, and makes media bias explicit. Subscribe through my link at https://check.ground.news/Next for 15% off your subscription.If You Liked This Conversation, You'll Probably Like These Episodes of Where We Go Next:83: Building Autonomous Vehicles to Clean Up Outer Space, with Trevor Bennett78: The Final Frontier Fire Sale: Chronicling the Pioneers Commercializing Space, with Ashlee Vance74: Going to Space, Reusing the Entire Rocket, and Flying Again in 24 Hours, with Andy Lapsa70: Making Extinction a Thing of the Past, with Ben Lamm & George Church64: An Electric Vehicle With 1,000 Miles of Range That You'll Never Need to Charge, with Steve Fambro54: Growing Healthier and Tastier Seafood in a Lab, with Justin Kolbeck13: Nuclear Energy Can Save the World, with Nick Touran Follow Ashlee on X: @ashleevance----------If you liked this episode, consider sharing it with someone you think might like it too.Email: michael@wherewegonext.comInstagram: @wwgnpodcast

Chapter 1:Summary of elon musk Book"Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future" by Ashlee Vance, published in 2015, is a biography that delves into the life and career of Elon Musk, one of the most intriguing and ambitious entrepreneurs and innovators of the 21st century. Known for his roles in founding or leading companies such as PayPal, SpaceX, Tesla Inc., and Neuralink, Musk has been a pivotal figure in pushing the boundaries of technology and industry.The book provides an in-depth look at Musk's early life, from his days as a child in South Africa to his emigration to the United States via Canada. It covers his educational journey, entrepreneurial ventures, and the personal challenges he faced along the way. Vance conducted numerous interviews with Musk himself, as well as with friends, family, and colleagues, to paint a detailed portrait of a relentless optimist driven by a vision for a better future.Key themes in the book include:1. Innovation and Vision: Musk's commitment to major problems facing humanity, like sustainable energy and space colonization, showcases his desire to work on projects that can fundamentally change our world.2. Challenges and Setbacks: The biography doesn't shy away from the numerous hurdles Musk faced, including conflicts at PayPal, Tesla's near failures, and SpaceX's rocket explosions. Each serves as a testament to his persistence and resilience.3. Leadership and Management Style: Musk is portrayed as a demanding but visionary leader, often expecting as much commitment from his employees as he devotes himself.4. Personal Life and Character: Insights into Musk's personal life, including his relationships and unique personal challenges, offer a comprehensive look at what drives him and affects his professional undertakings.Overall, "Elon Musk" by Ashlee Vance gives readers an intimate examination of a man tackling some of the most daunting challenges with a mix of intelligence, ambition, and a relentless pursuit that continues to capture public imagination. It's not just a tale of technological innovation, but a complex account of what it takes to disrupt deeply entrenched global industries.Chapter 2:the theme of elon musk Book"Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future" by Ashlee Vance, published in 2015, is a comprehensive biography of the tech mogul Elon Musk, detailing his childhood, personal evolution, and professional dynamics while discussing the development and impact of his major businesses—Tesla, SpaceX, and SolarCity. Key Plot Points:1. Early Life and Inspiration: The biography starts with Musk's early years in Pretoria, South Africa, detailing a tough childhood, an avid interest in reading, and early signs of extraordinary creativity and tenacity.2. Migration to North America: Musk's journey continues from South Africa to Canada and finally to the United States, driven by his dreams to make significant changes in technology and humanity's future.3. Zip2 and PayPal: Vance explores Musk's entry into the tech world with Zip2 and later PayPal, outlining how these experiences helped shape Musk's attitude towards business and his relentless pursuit of success.4. SpaceX: One of the central themes is Musk's founding of SpaceX with the dream of making space travel affordable and his ultimate goal of colonizing Mars. The trials and failures leading to successful rockets like the Falcon 1, Falcon 9, and Dragon spacecraft are crucial plot points.5. Tesla Motors: Musk's involvement with Tesla Motors, its struggles during the financial crisis of 2008, and its revolutionary impact on the automotive industry by focusing on electric cars form another critical plot point.6. SolarCity and Renewable Energy: Vance discusses Musk's vision of a sustainable energy economy, illustrated by his investment

Wil je groter leren denken? Luister dan naar deze aflevering van de StoryBrand Podcast.Dirk Tuip is een serie-ondernemer met een achtergrond in topsport. Hij heeft meerdere succesvolle bedrijven opgericht, waaronder Schurq, een performance based marketing agency, en Facility Apps, een softwarebedrijf voor de schoonmaaksector. Dirk's nieuwste project, H20.gg, is een indrukwekkende 10.000 vierkante meter campus in Purmerend, gericht op gaming en technologie. Zijn visie op de toekomst van gaming en de manier waarop bedrijven dit kunnen inzetten, maakt hem een inspirerende gast voor deze aflevering. We hebben het over de volgende onderwerpen: Dirk's Ondernemersreis: Het starten en runnen van meerdere bedrijven, waaronder Schurk en Facility Apps.H20.gg Campus: De ontwikkeling van een 10.000 vierkante meter campus in Purmerend, gericht op gaming en technologie.Gaming en E-sports: Het belang van gaming voor bedrijven en de toekomst van e-sports in Nederland.Silicon Valley Invloed: Hoe een bezoek aan Silicon Valley Dirk's visie en werkwijze heeft beïnvloed.Topsport Mentaliteit: De parallellen tussen topsport en ondernemerschap en hoe deze mentaliteit bijdraagt aan succes.Social Enterprise: De rol van H20 als een impactvol bedrijf dat jongeren inspireert en opleidt.Samenwerking met Pathé: Het opzetten van Go Gaming clubs in samenwerking met Pathé om gaming en e-sports toegankelijker te maken.Tijd en Productiviteit: Dirk's benadering van time management en het vinden van een balans tussen werk en privé.Leiderschap en Teamwork: Het belang van waarden in samenwerking en het bouwen van een high-performance team.De Palingindustrie: Dirk's betrokkenheid bij de palingkweek en hoe hij helpt bij het behoud van deze traditionele industrie in Volendam. Inspirerende Boeken: Boeken die Dirk hebben geïnspireerd in zijn ondernemersreis.InspiratieDe alchemist van Paulo CoelhoElon Musk: Tesla, Spacex, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future van Ashlee VanceBedrijvenSchurq.nlFacillityapps.comH20.ggGogaming.ggContactgegevensLinkedInMarketing Made Simple (Nederlandse editie)Wil je jouw marketingboodschap verhelderen en je bedrijf laten groeien? Koop dan het boek "Marketing Made Simple" (Nederlandse editie) voor een simpel marketingplan, dat je bedrijf laat groeien. Bezoek Managementboek.nl om je exemplaar te bestellen. Weet je een leuke gast?Mail dan naar contact@storybrand.nl

https://www.paypal.me/Truelifepodcast?locale.x=en_USAndrew SwindellsToday's Guest is an eclectic expert in a diverse range of fields and has an amazing range of life experiences. He is here to share those experiences and what he has learnt from his quest to overcome extreme challenges in pursuit of his own self-actualisation During that journey he completed  three degrees and three books,  despite suffering from PTSD, dyslexia and ADHD. He taught English to Japanese children in Tokyo, was Executive Chairman of an Aviation Safety company and led an international project in War Crimes and Crimes against Humanity in post-war Sierra Leone, West Africa involving 300 people.Prior to that he was a Drug Squad Detective in the Australian Federal Police where he was involved in shootouts, car chases and record seizures of drugs during the most corrupt period in Australian history. Our speaker later spent 15 years as a criminal defence barrister and was Counsel   Assisting   the   Crime   and   Misconduct   Commission  investigating organised crime and bikie gangs. He was also appointed to three different judicial roles. He later created, wrote and hosted a TV show called Law Legends Lately that had a total cumulative audience of 250,000 Most recently he spent a decade raising three daughters as a full-time stay-at-home Dad which he tells me was far harder than anything else he has ever done. So please welcome keynote speaker and author of ‘How to Deal Drugs and Get Away With It' and ‘Dealing or Healing: Reality Checking Drug Wars, Drug Wonders and our Fantastic Future' - Andrew Swindells http://linkedin.com/in/andrew-swindells-speaksdealingorhealing.com https://www.paypal.me/Truelifepodcast?locale.x=en_US

Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, or Peter Beck? Who's winning the billionaire space race? And who will take care of all their space junk? Here today to answer all of these questions and more is none other than Ashlee Vance! Ashlee is a writer at Bloomberg, bestselling author, filmmaker, and Emmy-nominated host and writer of the tech series Hello World. Among his most well-known books are Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future and When The Heavens Went on Sale: The Misfits and Geniuses Racing To Put Space Within Reach, which was an instant bestseller, and which we will discuss in depth today. Ashlee is one of my favorite writers, and it was a huge honor for me to dive deep into the world of space exploration with him.  Tune in!  Key Takeaways:  Intro (00:00) Judging a book by its cover: When The Heavens Went on Sale (01:04) Pete Warden and his influence on commercial spaceflight (03:20) Communist vs. capitalist approach to space exploration (06:54) Will Elon Musk die on Mars? (11:09) On space junk and regulations (21:57) How to spot talent in space exploration (26:22) On space tourism (32:00) Global banking at the speed of light (34:38) Brain-computer interfaces (38:36) Pete Warden, Robert Zubrin, SpaceX and NASA (41:30) Ashlee's HBO projects (47:41) Outro (50:20) — Additional resources: 

In today's episode of Category Visionaries, we speak to Zach Rash, CEO and Co-founder of Coco, a food delivery robot that's raised $60 Million in funding. Topics discussed:  Zach's background in mechanical engineering and wanting to build something for the physical world Why Sam Altman, Coco's largest investor, is an inspiration for Zach Using tech and a remote work model to build a product that makes food delivery cheaper for merchants and buyers, and the ins and outs of Coco's workings Regulatory headaches, why Coco doesn't steal jobs from human food deliverers, and how it contributes to sustainability Dealing with competition, lessons learned from fundraising, and Zach's view for the future of Coco   Favorite book: Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future

Chapter 1 What's the Book Elon Musk"Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future" is a biography written by Ashlee Vance. The book delves into the life and achievements of Elon Musk, one of the most influential entrepreneurs of our time. It explores Musk's journey from his early days in South Africa to his ventures with companies like PayPal, Tesla, SpaceX, and SolarCity. The book provides insights into Musk's ambitious goals, innovative thinking, and his drive to revolutionize multiple industries. It also sheds light on the challenges he faced along the way and the impact of his work on the world.Chapter 2 Why is Elon Musk A Good Book1. Inspiring Entrepreneurial Journey: Elon Musk's journey from humble beginnings to becoming one of the most influential entrepreneurs of our time is nothing short of inspiring. A well-written book can provide readers with an in-depth account of his path, shedding light on the challenges, setbacks, and triumphs he encountered along the way. Learning about his resilience, determination, and ability to envision the future can inspire readers to pursue their own dreams and overcome obstacles. 2. Boundary-Pushing Innovation: Elon Musk is known for pushing the boundaries of technological innovation in various industries. From co-founding PayPal to founding companies like Tesla, SpaceX, Neuralink, and The Boring Company, his ventures cover areas such as electric vehicles, space exploration, renewable energy, and brain-machine interfaces. A book about Elon Musk can delve into the fascinating details of these groundbreaking projects, providing insight into how he envisions and executes game-changing ideas. 3. Impactful Global Initiatives: Beyond his entrepreneurial endeavors, Elon Musk has shown a commitment to addressing global challenges and making a positive impact. Notably, he has championed sustainable energy solutions through Tesla's electric cars and SolarCity's solar energy systems. Additionally, SpaceX aims to revolutionize space travel, while Neuralink pursues advancements in neurotechnology. Exploring the motivations behind these initiatives and their potential implications can be thought-provoking and enlightening. 4. Complex and Controversial Personality: Elon Musk's personality is often described as multifaceted, controversial, and enigmatic. A well-researched book can provide a nuanced understanding of his character, delving into both his strengths and weaknesses, leadership style, and unique approach to problem-solving. Understanding the complexity behind such an influential figure can provoke critical thinking and encourage readers to explore diverse perspectives. 5. Lessons in Innovation and Resilience: Elon Musk's story offers valuable lessons in innovation, perseverance, and resilience. His ability to navigate multiple industries, overcome failures, and continue pushing forward despite obstacles serves as a source of inspiration for aspiring entrepreneurs and individuals seeking personal growth. Through the lens of a book, readers can extract practical insights from his experiences and apply them to their own lives and pursuits.Chapter 3 Elon Musk AbstractThis article delves into the extraordinary life and accomplishments of Elon Musk, the renowned entrepreneur and innovator behind Tesla, SpaceX, Neuralink, and The Boring Company. Drawing inspiration from the book "The Elon Musk Method," we uncover the key principles that have propelled Musk to the forefront of technology and entrepreneurship....

کامل‌ترین زندگینامه‌ی ایلان ماسک مردی که امروزه ماشین‌های برقی درست می‌کند، باتری‌های خورشیدی می‌سازد و موشک‌هایش راه فضا را درپیش‌ گرفته‌اند و در سودای ایجاد تمدن بر روی مریخ استخلاصه کتاب ایلان ماسک: تسلا، اسپیس اکس و فتح آینده ای رویاییSummary of the book Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future نویسنده: اشلی ونس | Ashlee Vanceناشر: گوتنبرگ | مترجم: شروین صولتیگوینده و متن: مهدی بهمنیتدوین: رضا بهمنیطراح پوستر: کورش عنبریشماره حساب موسسه خیریه کلید بهشت: ۵۸۹۲۱۰۷۰۴۴۸۷۶۷۳۱ | اینستاگرامارسال پیشنهاد کتاب: KetabJibiPodcast.ir/Book_Suggestحمایت مالی: KetabJibiPodcast.ir/Donateاسپانسر کتاب جیبی شوید: KetabJibiPodcast.ir/Sponsorshipتلگرام کتاب جیبی: T.me/KetabJibiPodcastاینستاگرام کتاب جیبی: Instagram.com/KetabJibiPodcast

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Over the past 15 years, the cost to launch a rocket into orbit has declined dramatically thanks to SpaceX. Today, we're witnessing the launch of a new Space Age — one built around billionaires like Elon Musk, but also a flowering of smaller private ventures. To discuss the state of play in the emerging orbital economy, I've brought Ashlee Vance on this episode of Faster, Please! — The Podcast.Vance is the author of the new book, When the Heavens Went on Sale: The Misfits and Geniuses Racing to Put Space Within Reach. He previous wrote, Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future in 2015.Faster, Please! is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.In This Episode* How SpaceX launched a new Space Age (1:13)* The companies building a “computing shell” around the planet (8:37)* The proliferation of satellites (15:07)* The downsides of the emerging space economy (24:07)Below is an edited transcript of our conversationHow SpaceX launched a new Space AgeJames Pethokoukis: The book begins with a story of the first successful orbital launch of a SpaceX Falcon 1. There were three failed attempts, the whole thing is looking pretty dicey about the future of the company in this effort, and on the fourth attempt, September, 2008, they're able to get to orbit and release a payload. Before September, 2008, what does the space economy/space industry look like? Where are we starting?Ashlee Vance: The starting point: sort of sadly, it looked a lot the same for many, many decades. We had this nation-backed space program, [which was] dominant. There were just a handful of nations, really, that were the major players in all this. Some wealthy people at various stages had come along and tried to commercialize space and make their own rockets, and had varying degrees of success, but no staying power. It ended up that it always takes longer and costs more than you think. And NASA was always sitting there really as your main competitor and undermining your business. With the Falcon 1, it really was this watershed-type moment where finally somebody had succeeded. Yes, SpaceX had people from traditional aerospace, but Elon [Musk] certainly was not from the aerospace world. He had a lot of 20-somethings on his team who had never done this before. It just signaled this new era, or the possibility of a new era, because you had people just who hadn't been part of the old guard doing this thing.The goal here was to get a rocket into space and get it there way cheaper than what NASA was doing. What was the key breakthrough that allowed that decline in costs? And why didn't NASA just do this?NASA, and in particular the Department of Defense, had desired this type of thing for a long time: a low-cost rocket that could get to space quickly and often. It seems like this should be doable, but they had really struggled to make it happen. The DOD had funded various efforts. There's a couple things going on. SpaceX had this huge advantage, I think, of this clean slate to this. They came at this without the usual baggage. And in this case, the baggage means a lot of military government contractors who are pricing things quite expensively. They're doing things the way they've always done them, which means you probably don't want to see any sort of failure so you're building it in a ton of redundancy and spending all this extra money to make sure you look good when this thing goes.SpaceX comes in with this clean slate. The original pitch deck for SpaceX described it as like the Southwest for space. Cost was like at the top of [Elon Musk's] mind and he wanted to make this cheap. They did have some breakthroughs. The physics around a rocket are the physics, and we've known this for decades. There's not much room for huge breakthroughs in engineering that nobody has thought of yet. But they did come in with this modern, Silicon Valley–style approach to software, particularly to electronics—although this kind of comes in later in SpaceX's history—where SpaceX was going to build a lot of the electronics themselves, often turning to consumer-grade electronics instead of what people call space-grade, which means it's built by a military contractor, it probably costs a thousand times what it should cost, but it's guaranteed to work in space. They had this clean slate. They did things as cheap as possible. The team was small. It wasn't this bloated contractor. That was their primary advantage at the beginning, I would argue. Over time, as they've gotten much bigger and much more money is coming in, there's a whole host of technological advantages. But on the Falcon 1, it really was that clean slate, this low-cost approach.Obviously if you're beginning your book, which is not a history of SpaceX, but you're beginning with SpaceX, then that must have marked an important inflection point where you could sort of imagine two paths. One path: the 2010s look a lot like the 2000s, which look a lot like the ‘90s. Versus this very different path.Why is SpaceX important in creating this new path, and what do things look like now?Yeah. I'm so glad you called that out and you phrased it the way you did with these two paths, because a lot of people—my editors were giving me grief for, “Why are you spending so much time talking about SpaceX in the prologue of this book that's not going to be about SpaceX?” But as you pointed out…By the way, having dealt with book editors, I can imagine that conversation quite easily.I wanted people to know how fragile this was, and where it did it come from? You mentioned it: Three of the previous rockets had failed, SpaceX was running out of money, they were running out of credibility, people had been on this island, Kwajalein, for six years, basically losing their minds. If this rocket does not go, I think we do end up in that scenario that you were just talking about, where the 2010s look pretty much like they always had. It was important to me just to give people this history, how hard this is. I see this as this inciting incident. It's funny, because you kind of go from governments and then there were like honest-to-God billionaires. When Elon started SpaceX, he was rich, but he wasn't rich like he is now. We're talking about like a hundred million dollars he put into SpaceX. So the bar had come down quite a bit. But in that moment when this rocket flies and then in the years that follow, when SpaceX really starts to hit its stride, this unlocks all of this.There was so much enthusiasm for space and young kids who wanted to get into this industry, and it had been slow and boring and the excitement had sort of come out of it. You had the generation of people who had grown up watching Apollo. Those people were getting older, and there wasn't something new to look at for a lot of people who were much younger. And here it is. Here's this company that's making commercial space real. And this guy, Elon, is quite eccentric and interesting, and some people sort of want to be like him. I write about it in the book: It was sort of like the four-minute mile to me. It's like, once somebody does it, then all of a sudden you see lots of people now are breaking the four-minute mile. This thing that seemed impossible, it turns out is possible. You have this unlocking in your head of what people can do. And so I just think across the world, it unlocked this passion, this latent engineering smarts and energy, and made this seem real. So you end up with startups all over the world chasing rockets and satellites.The companies building a “computing shell” around the planetIn the book, you write, “The future that all these space buffs have already started building is one in which many rockets blast off every day. These rockets will be carrying thousands of satellites that will be placed not all that far above our heads. The satellites will change the way communications work on Earth by, for one, making the internet an inescapable presence with all the good and bad that entails. The satellites will also watch and analyze the earth in previously unfathomable ways. The data centers that have reshaped life on our planet will be transported into orbit. We are, in effect, building a computing shell around the planet.” Other than SpaceX, who are the companies building that computer shell?The one that comes to mind is the next sort of central actor in the book, which is this company called Planet Labs, which is based in San Francisco. For people who don't know, they already surround the Earth with about 250 imaging satellites. They can take, and they do take, pictures of every spot on the Earth's landmass every day. Multiple pictures. Unlike even the world's biggest governments, China, Russia, the US, which have spice satellites obviously, but they only have a handful of spy satellites. And they tend to only look where interesting things might be happening. Planet sees everything that's happening all the time. And this is not some far-off concept. They had this full constellation up and running in 2018 and have just been adding to it ever since.At the time they launched, in low-Earth orbit there were about [2,000] satellites. And Planet had put up about 250. They were about 10 percent of all the satellites in space, just from this small private company in California that grew out of NASA Ames, the Silicon Valley center. And so they're indicative of, today, we have many, many, several companies trying to build these space internet constellations, each of which require on the order of 10,000 to 20,000 satellites. You've got more imaging satellites along the lines of Planet that do all kinds of different things. And then you got a ton of scientific satellites. The whole premise is that there are many more ideas yet to come.When you watch a spy movie, they're always talking about "retasking the satellite,” like there's only one satellite over all of Asia or something. But what we're talking about now is satellites everywhere, looking everywhere, any time you want.Yeah. That movie stuff is true. That's usually what had to happen. Just as like SpaceX brought the cost of rocket launches down and created this revolution in rocketry, I argue Planet had an attendant effect satellites. I didn't mention before: A traditional satellite is like the size of a school bus, costs $500 million to $2 billion to make. People sit there working on it for like six years. It's supposed to go into space and stay there for 20 years. You can imagine the electronics on a 20-year-old satellite that's trying to do its job…I can also imagine the tension of that launch going wrong.Like, that can't go wrong for many reasons. And once the satellite gets up in space, it also has to work, right? That's why you're spending $2 billion, because if that thing doesn't work, a lot of people are losing their jobs at a company or a military outfit is in dire straits. Planet rethought this whole thing. They're like, “Let's make them much smaller. Let's put them closer to Earth.” Almost like a disposable sort of thing. They're sending up dozens at a time. They've had rocket launches — a couple, they had bad luck at the beginning — that blew up and they lost all their satellites on those. But it wasn't a make-or-break moment for the company, because these satellites are relatively cheap: $100,000 each.They rethought the whole thing, and then they were able to surround the Earth. It basically like a line scanner, and the Earth just turns under these satellites, and it's just photographing all the time. It sounds a lot like what we were talking about before, espionage and spy stuff, and there are uses for that. Although the resolution on these, you can't see somebody's face or anything like that. You mostly look at something like the size of a car. These satellites are geared to what I call monitoring the real-time activity of humans on Earth. Where are we building stuff? Where is our oil being stored? Where is it going? How are our forests? How many trees are in the Amazon? Is somebody cutting them down? The sort of movement of economic activity and environmental activity on Earth.It reminds me of, if you're trying to determine like the GDP of a country that may not be particularly honest with its government statistics, you could either accept the statistics and try to figure it out, or you could just look at it from space. How many lights are going on? Is there more activity? And try to gauge it in a more visual way. Are there companies doing that for more private-sector reasons?This happens today. China will say, “We have this much oil in our reserves.” Well, it turns out these satellites can spot all your oil storage systems. Because of the way the oil storage systems work, where they have these floating lids that can go up and down depending on how much oil is in there, the satellites can actually measure the shadow that's being reflected on the side of this tanker. And you could calculate, people argue, very accurately how much oil is being stored. We do this with places like Saudi Arabia. China comes out with its official economic metrics, and now we have a version of the truth where people come back and say, “No, you have way more oil stored up than you've been letting on.” I think this is going to be a big deal. Not to go on a huge tangent, but China's economy appears to be slowing. I'm quite certain the government will put the best possible spin on things and how they're performing. You can look not only at oil, you can look at construction — how many buildings are going up, how many houses are going up — all kinds of economic indicators.We are now on an exponential curve, and almost all of those satellites are commercial satellites, not military or government satellites that have been added. We're going to go from 10,000, if you look at all the launch manifests for the rocket companies, we get to 100,000 in the next decade. And quite likely 200,000 the decade after that, or maybe sooner. This is a totally new era of what it looks like right above our heads.The proliferation of satellitesWhat has the growth in the number of satellites looked like in recent years? And do you have a sense of how that growth will continue over the next decade?I can do that one. Easy. From like 1960 to 2020, in low-Earth orbit, we had managed to put up about 2,500 satellites. And it was not on an exponential curve. We kind of got a whole bunch up, and then every year you would add maybe 20 to 50 depending on what was going on. It was this very slow, steady march the last few years. So that's 2020: 2,500. Already, as we're sitting here today, there's now about 10,000. So that number has almost quadrupled. It's getting close to quadrupling by the end of this year. We are now on an exponential curve, and almost all of those satellites are commercial satellites, not military or government satellites that have been added. We're going to go from 10,000, if you look at all the launch manifests for the rocket companies, we get to 100,000 in the next decade. And quite likely 200,000 the decade after that, or maybe sooner. This is a totally new era of what it looks like right above our heads.The astronomers can't be happy.No. I'm sort of baffled by some of this, because SpaceX and Starlink have been the major driver of this huge increase as they're trying to build out their space internet system. Spacex is now the world's largest satellite manufacturer by several orders of magnitude. And this was no secret. They had to apply for all these licenses to put these satellites up years in advance. There were other people trying to build a space internet. The astronomers never complained until the second SpaceX did its first launch and put the satellites up and everyone could see this kind of string of pearls flying above them as the satellites start to spread out. I was amused and sort of baffled, I guess, that they waited until this was already underway to really start kind of complaining about this. But the die is cast as far as I can tell. You could argue for the Earth-bound telescopes, this is not great. On the other hand, if rocket launches are coming way down, if we're finally putting Moore's Law in space, the opportunity to put scientific instruments above this low-Earth orbit field and do a whole bunch of interesting things increases quite dramatically. If you had to build up $300 million for a rocket launch in the past just to have a go at putting your scientific instrument up, and now you can do it for anywhere from call it like $6 million to $60 million, it's a new era where more people really should get a chance.Earlier, you talked about SpaceX as the Southwest Airlines of space. But that's really not what it is anymore. Today, it's the high-end company. And other entrepreneurs have filled that space below it. Is that right?Exactly. SpaceX built that Falcon 1, which was meant to cost just a few million dollars to launch, and then quickly abandoned it. The second it worked, it moved to the much larger Falcon 9, in part because we didn't quite yet have companies like Planet Labs. Planet Labs came around 2012, a few years after the Falcon 1 launch, and really was the first to start thinking about all sending up thousands or hundreds of satellites. And so SpaceX retired the Falcon 1, you had kind of this gap, and then all of a sudden — some of these companies are real, some of them aren't — there's about a hundred rocket startups trying to make a rocket. Even SpaceX today, the Falcon 9 runs about $60 to $70 million a launch. Now you have dozens of companies trying to do launches starting at, if you believe these numbers, like $2 million a launch. Probably like somewhere between $5 and $12 million is a realistic figure. The leader in this category is in the book, this company Rocket Lab founded by Peter Beck. And they have made a rocket called Electron, which has flown now dozens of times and is really sort of like a perfectly engineered small rocket.If we can have the internet everywhere for everybody, what does that enable? What do these satellites enable?I think starting with space internet is a good one. Even though we often feel like we're connected to the internet all the time and we have our cell phones, the truth of it is there are these huge gaps all around the planet. And it probably means more on an infrastructure sense than it does on an individual not being able to check their email for a few hours. What we are creating now is a blanket of internet that will have the Earth always connected. This part makes a lot of sense to me. It's very obvious. I just think this is the next step of our technology build out. Just like in the ‘90s, we had to put data centers and fiber everywhere to sort of get the internet going; now, you want this persistent internet that can connect people and all sorts of devices all the time. And that's what we're building in space: This internet heartbeat that's washing over. Everything you've ever heard about, like Internet of Things, sensors on container ships reporting back, or things out in the farm checking the soil moisture: None of this really has worked. And the reason why, is because we haven't had this sort of persistent internet connection. If you think about like a world full of drones and flying cars and self-driving cars — all these things that have to be talking in remote spots to have all this work. It's just this glue that needs to be there. That's like case number one that I think does check out.And then of course, you have three-and-a-half billion people that just cannot be reached by fiber optic cables today, and they're not allowed to participate in the modern economy. There's such obvious evidence that the second high-speed internet arrives in a country, education levels go up, economic levels go up. This is just like a fairness thing in letting the whole world participate in what's going on.That's fantastic because sometimes I think people are unaware of what's going on. Maybe they're kind of aware of SpaceX, but that's pretty much it. And when they think of SpaceX, they're probably mostly thinking of, Elon Musk wants to take us to Mars. I don't think they understand very much about the satellites, unless they've heard astronomers complain about it. I don't think they understand the economic and business case and just that it's all happening.This is why everyone focuses on the Moon and Mars. And it's all cool and everything, and it is still just very far out. This is why I wrote the book. I was like, you people do not understand that we are building a legit economy right over our heads. And this thing is pretty well underway and I think it is going to change life here on Earth quite quickly.Are any of the companies that you're looking at involved with creating like new space stations? There's been a lot of talk about creating new space platforms. What they'll do up there, I'm not sure exactly. There's talk about creating different kinds of products and shooting movies and doing biotechnology research. Are any of the companies cover involved with those efforts?Yeah. In the book, I spend less time on things like space habitats and some of these other businesses. But yes, I do talk about them briefly. But more importantly, I suppose for this conversation, all this is happening. In the past, you've had the International Space Station, this multinational, huge, bureaucratic thing that actually works pretty well. But that's who's driving it. And now we have a handful of startups making space habitats. We've got SpaceX leading the way with, I guess you could call it tourism: being able to send people to these things, private citizens. This is already happening. We've had private astronauts now going to space on SpaceX rockets. And so they'll go to those habitats. A fascinating startup called Varda launched just a couple months ago. They have put what you could argue is the first manufacturing system in space. It's making medicines. You can do things without gravity pushing on molecules in space that you can't do on Earth. They're trying to make a whole new class of pharmaceuticals and bring them back to Earth. I think that's just the earliest example. There are things like asteroid mining that I thought were total jokes and are still quite far off, but there's a startup, Astro Forge. Same thing: They set up their first test earlier this year. All this stuff is actually happening now. The business cases on these things, I think some will work and some won't, but we're going to find out.The downsides of the emerging space economyWhat's the unnerving aspect? I write about this a lot: We immediately jump to the downsides. What are the costs? So I didn't want to certainly lead with that, but are there things about this that people should be concerned about? Space junk, other things?I am optimistic on the whole. History would tell us that when humans find a new territory in which to conquer, usually mistakes are made. It doesn't always go really well. We have a reality setting up right now where you had this handful of governments moving very slowly, launching a rocket once a month. Now we're moving to like every day and thousands of satellites, and it really is a bit of ‘whoever gets their first wins' sort of scenario. Once you start adding a race to these things, that often that doesn't go well.The thing that everybody is worried about is these satellites crashing into each other and creating a debris field in low-Earth orbit. And obviously none of these companies want that to happen. They're the ones spending hundreds of millions, billions of dollars to build these things. And we do have systems in place to track this stuff, but that becomes a nightmare. There is a scenario called the Kessler Syndrome, where one of these things breaks apart and it just starts ripping into everything else, and then low-Earth orbit becomes essentially unusable. That's not only bad for this new stuff that we're talking about, but there's things like GPS that make the modern world work that would no longer work if that happens. That's a huge issue I think we're going to have.If you think about, these were nation states that had a lot of control. The rockets are essentially ICBMs more or less. You had a select group of space-faring nations. I think that's all going to change quite soon. Whoever wants a rocket blasting off from their country can have one. Almost anywhere can afford a satellite. You're talking about like a hundred grand just to kind of get going. You're going to have nation states that no longer can really be controlled the way they were or that now have access to space. Are they going to follow all the same rules that everybody else has been following for decades? Probably not.And then I think the real wild card is Russia. This is a country whose space program was already flagging. SpaceX has eaten up a ton of their business. It's rife with corruption. The war in Ukraine has made them unusable for many, many countries as far as sending up satellites and people. And they are a wild card. Space is not just some flight of fancy for Russia. It's something that's baked deep into the national pride and is near and dear to their hearts. They have no commercial space companies, startups at all. Are they a rational actor in this new world as they see there being this dominant superpower that's going to go away?I'm going to finish by asking you the Mars question about SpaceX: Is that going to happen? Do you think that is a serious goal for that company that you can see happening on some sort of timeline that Elon Musk has talked about?I'm pretty sure it will. I mean, for Elon, you've always got to take everything he says with a grain of salt on timelines and ambition and all that. He tends to set these goals. They usually don't happen anywhere close to what he said, but they usually do happen. And in this case, it's not just Elon, right? I know enough of the SpaceX top engineers. They are very convinced Starship is real, that it can get to Mars, I think for sure. You're going to see years of just sending industrial equipment and things like that to Mars long before you send a human. The human question is still…things have to get better. That's a long ride to Mars. And you better be sure you can come back if you want to. A lot of stuff has to happen between here and there. But will SpaceX start putting stuff on Mars in actually sort of the relatively near-ish future? Yes. I'm quite convinced of that. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit fasterplease.substack.com/subscribe

From low Earth orbit projects to potential moon landings, a 21st century space race is heating up. Following the lead of Elon Musk's SpaceX, a multitude of private companies are now competing to commercialize space and transform the industry, which up until now has largely been dominated by NASA and government contracts. Technology journalist Ashlee Vance follows the trajectories of four of those companies in his new book “When The Heavens Went On Sale,” and he joins us to talk about this new era of satellites, rockets and for-profit re-envisionings of our relationship with space. Guests: Ashlee Vance, technology writer, Bloomberg Businessweek; author, "When the Heavens Went on Sale: The Misfits and Geniuses Racing to Put Space Within Reach," and "Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future"

If you don't know today's guest Mark Jobe, hopefully you'll get to know him after the episode. You can check out his podcast, Bold Steps, or check out his most recent book What Now? How to Move into Your Next Season. Links are provided below. As the president of Moody Bible Institute and as founding pastor of New Life Community Church in Chicago, Mark has a unique vantage point for the next generation. He provides us with a ton of insight concerning our ambassadorship.moodyradio.org/programs/bold-steps-with-dr-mark-jobe/amazon.com/What-Now-Move-into-Season/dp/0802423418Connect with us on social media and / or email:Twitter - @GoMADPodcastFacebook - facebook.com/gomadshowInstagram - @gomadshowYouTube - @gomadshowEmail - gomadshow@hutchcraft.comOr find out more about us on our website: gomadpodcast.comEnjoy the show? We'd love it if you took a moment to leave a review on Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/go-m-a-d/id1593068456Thank you for listening and Go M.A.D. today!

In todays episode we talk about how fast the future is changing and why it's paramount to be radically open minded in order to fully embrace and thrive with the future. Did you know that we will experience the type of innovation we've seen over the last 100 years...in the next 10 years!!! In order to thrive in this ever changing world we need to truly understand how to embrace and be ready for a future that looks radically different than anything we've yet experience as a species.

Ashlee Vance is the author of a brand new book, 'When the Heavens Went on Sale: The Misfits and Geniuses Racing to Put Space Within Reach.' He is also the New York Times bestselling author of the book, 'Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future.' We talk about space, SpaceX, Elon Musk, and a bunch of space startups that are all racing to be on the frontier of what appears to be one of the big industries in the future. This book by Ashlee Vance is absolutely fantastic, it shows what is going on the industry, what the players are, and why so much money, time & energy is being spent in what appeared to be a pipe dream a few years ago. ======================= Pomp writes a daily letter to over 235,000+ investors about business, technology, and finance. He breaks down complex topics into easy-to-understand language while sharing opinions on various aspects of each industry. You can subscribe at https://pomp.substack.com/

In todays episode we dive into creating the future you most want by acting in a way that your future self would be most proud. Taking the steps to create that future self you envision, and the consistent habits that will get you there. We're creating our future all the time, but this is changing the equation from being a victim of circumstance, to creator of your future.

Ashlee Vance is the New York Times bestselling author of Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future, and a feature writer at Bloomberg Businessweek. He's also the host of Hello World, a travel show that centers on inventors and scientists all over the planet. Previously, he worked as a reporter for The New York Times, The Economist, and The Register. His new book, When the Heavens Went on Sale: The Misfits and Geniuses Racing to Put Space Within Reach, is out now.ashleevance.comWhen the Heavens Went on Sale: The Misfits and Geniuses Racing to Put Space Within Reach, by Ashlee VanceHello World - BloombergElon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future, by Ashlee VanceElon Musk: The Fantastic Future Quest | Ashlee Vance | Talks at Google - YouTube70: Making Extinction a Thing of the Past, with Ben Lamm & George Church - Where We Go Next72: A Self-Help Book for Societies, with Tim Urban - Where We Go NextOutliers: The Story of Success, by Malcolm GladwellHow LeoLabs Is Using New Tech to Target Space Junk - Hello WorldAshlee's Twitter: @ashleevance----------Are you a fan of Where We Go Next? I'd love to hear from you. Listen to the very end of this episode for details.Email: wherewegopod@gmail.comInstagram: @wwgnpodcast

Small consistent habits creates miracles. In todays episode we dive into the very thing that creates your life's experience...HABITS. Habits are what creates the life you have, and the life you want. Once we tune into this powerful shift you can have anything you want!

Subscribe to The Realignment to access our exclusive Q&A episodes and support the show: https://realignment.supercast.com/.REALIGNMENT NEWSLETTER: https://therealignment.substack.com/PURCHASE BOOKS AT OUR BOOKSHOP: https://bookshop.org/shop/therealignmentFoundation for American Innovation: https://www.thefai.org/posts/lincoln-becomes-faiAshlee Vance, author of When the Heavens Went on Sale: The Misfits and Geniuses Racing to Put Space Within Reach and Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future, joins The Realignment. Ashlee and Marshall discuss the geopolitics of the new space race, the cheap and fast rocket and satellite launch revolution, how the "wild west" of lower orbit differs from the business billionaire-led space tourism, and how the new business of space could transform life on Earth.

In todays episode we talk about how to see our blindspots, embrace our failures, and struggle well. By looking at where our greatest weaknesses are we start transforming and empowering ourselves to level up and see the real picture of reality. This is one of the most powerful ways to interact with how reality really is. By understanding ourselves on this deeper level we truly start to embrace our struggles and transform how we show up in our daily lives.

In today's episode we talk about how we have control over our genetics and how we can show up better. When we understand how our cells work and how what we do completely effects us down to our cells and dna, then we take back control of absolutely everything in our life. Tune in to understand this fascinating field and how you can take advantage of the emerging research.

Robin is joined by Author and journalist Ashlee Vance, the author of Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future. Vance has a fascinating new book coming out in the same spirit but this time he follows the dizzying new space race between Astra, Rocket Lab, and Firefly and the exploits of their cowboy founders and CEOs.

In today episode we explore how different mindsets truly affect how we show up, How mindfulness helps us be present and gives us direction in life, and how we build neural networks in our brain. This is also how we create our future. We also discuss some tools to help with depression including https://www.betterhelp.com/ as well as coaches, mentors, reading various books (The End of Mental Illness by Dr. Amen is a great place to start), Healing trauma, and really becoming our best selves.

In today's exciting episode we dive into the most important thing that will determine your healthspan. From measuring our gut bacteria to measuring brainwaves. It is paramount to understand the connections and start developing the habits to truly upgrade our health and longevity. If you want to live a long healthy life free of disease, then this episode is for you!

In todays exciting episode we talk about everything happing in the world of psychedelics and how they're changing everything we previously thought surrounding this world. From mental illness, childhood trauma, and even meditation. The emerging research around this exciting topic is nothing short of astounding.

Learn on your terms. Get the PDF, infographic, full ad-free audiobook and animated version of this summary and a lot more on the top-rated StoryShots app: https://www.getstoryshots.com ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Help us grow and create more amazing content for you! Rate and review the StoryShots podcast now.  What should our next book be? Suggest and vote it up on our free app. StoryShots Book Summary and Review of Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future by Ashlee Vance Life gets busy. Has Elon Musk been on your reading list? Learn the key insights now. We're scratching the surface here. If you don't already have Ashlee Vance's popular book, order it here or get the audiobook for free to learn the juicy details. Introduction Elon Musk is the renowned entrepreneur behind PayPal, SpaceX, Tesla, and SolarCity. Musk's mission with each of these companies was to save humanity. In this book, Ashlee Vance provides an outline of the experiences that have made Musk the man he is today. Along the way, readers will learn how Musk has always dreamed big. He eventually achieved many dreams people claimed he never could. From throwing massive parties to pay his way through his education at the University of Pennsylvania, to plans to create one of the first online banks. Musk has always been an innovator. Now, he wants to help start a new home for humans on Mars. Elon Musk's biography delves into his leadership style and unwavering vision. Discover the captivating story of a visionary entrepreneur who has revolutionized multiple industries through his innovations. The book uncovers the key life lessons and success stories behind his impact on the world.  About Ashlee Vance Ashlee Vance is a New York Times best-selling author and feature writer at Bloomberg Businessweek. Born on August 7, 1977 in South Africa, he later moved to the United States. Ashlee has worked as a senior writer at Bloomberg Businessweek, specializing in tech industry coverage. He's also the host of the Hello World television and internet show. Previously, he worked as a reporter for The New York Times, The Economist, and The Register. His journalistic achievements have earned him recognition and awards within the industry. StoryShot #1: The Idea of Saving Humanity Drives Elon Musk StoryShot #2: Musk Had an Unhappy Childhood StoryShot #3: College Was a Productive Time for Elon Musk StoryShot #4: Musk's First Start-Up Made Him a Millionaire StoryShot #5: Elon Musk's X.com Venture Led to PayPal Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In today's episode of fantastic future Fridays we talk about how reading completely shifts how we show up in life and really how it affects our future selfs. Books are such an important and powerful upgrade to our lives because we get to learn someone's life experiences and lessons in just a few hours. In this episode we specifically talk about the lessons and take aways from the book Abundance by Deepak Chopra, and The Untethered Soul by Michael Singer. We also host a mastermind book club where we read a book a month and meet once a week to talk about what we're learning throughout the book. If you are interested in being a part of it please reach out at mindshift212@gmail.com

From CRISPR gene therapy, cryotherapy, and infrared light therapy. The future of healthcare and disease prevention is changing rapidly. Tune in to learn the future of where healthcare is headed. Have a question or comment? Please send us an email and connect. Who knows maybe we'll read your question live on the show.

Fail quickly, fail early, fail often, fail forward. That's the secret. To be successful, you have to act and make mistakes. But the truth is that putting your skin in the game will help you gain traction and confidence. First, to move in a specific direction, you must create your own Ikigai. In this episode, I guide one of my coaching clients towards reframing negative thoughts and creating his own Ikigai to prevent analysis paralysis and start implementing changes. These are some of the topics covered in the session: - Mindset shifts are a competitive advantage- How to be a contrarian optimist- Believe about 80 % of all the material you consume- Take your level of action to 10X - Listen to your intuition and don't question it- Meditate on your Ikigai to find your true purpose Even though all these topics are explicitly connected with my client's life, I'm convinced you will find them valuable and easy to adopt. You don't want to miss this episode. So lock in, take notes and experience some of my behind-the-scenes coaching sessions. “Stop being pissed off and use it as a stepping stone to do what you wanna do.” - Dr. Vikram Raya In This Episode: - Welcome back to another episode of the Limitless MD podcast- Don't say: “It didn't work out” - It worked out for as long as you needed it to work out - Some people are comfortable in their uncomfortable realities - Doing soft coaching on other doctors - Mindset shifts are a competitive advantage - How to be a contrarian optimist - Believe about 80% of all the material you consume - Create your own principles and frameworks- Japanese concept of Ikigai and how to complete it - What are you willing to die for? - Doing the thing you hate doing is a stepping stone for doing what you love- Fail quickly, fail early, fail often, fail forward - Take your level of action to 10X- Don't listen to high-income/low-net worth people- Live below your means and invest 50% of your money in real estate- Be happy with what you have while keeping your eyes open for new opportunities- Sometimes your intellect can paralyze you and prevent you from taking action- Focusing on your ikigai to make the fear of failure disappear - Why investing in real estate makes sense - Listen to your intuition and don't question it - Find your highest value and analyze the five freedoms - Do the inner work in order to know who you areResources Mentioned: - Book “The 10X Mentor” by Grant Cardone - https://www.amazon.com/Audible-The-10X-Mentor/dp/B0B29NQNBS - Book “Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future” by Ashlee Vance - https://www.amazon.com/Elon-Musk-SpaceX-Fantastic-Future/dp/006230125X - Book “Rich Dad Poor Dad: What the Rich Teach Their Kids About Money That the Poor and Middle Class Do Not!” by Robert T. Kiyosaki - https://www.amazon.com/Rich-Dad-Poor-Teach-Middle/dp/1612680194 -...

In this episode of The Agent of Wealth Podcast,  the Bautis Financial team discusses the eighth book assignment in their monthly Book Club, Hero on a Mission: A Path to a Meaningful Life. Some people live stories that are filled with significance and meaning, while others feel as though they've lost the plot. In Hero on a Mission, Donald Miller explores the principles that make a story meaningful and then helps us apply those principles to our lives.In this episode, you will learn:The four roles we play in life: the victim, the villain, the hero, the guide.How – and why – to write your own eulogy.How to cast your long- and short-term visions.How to apply Hero on a Mission to your life.And more!This is the eighth episode in the Bautis Financial Book Club series. Listen to the other episodes:Episode 75 – Atomic Habits by James ClearEpisode 76 – The Infinite Game by Simon SinekEpisode 88 – Elon Musk – Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future by Ashlee VanceEpisode 100 – Animal Spirits by George Akerlof and Robert ShillerEpisode 109 – Stacked: Your Super-Serious Guide to Modern Money ManagementEpisode 125 – Think Again by Adam GrantEpisode 132 – How to Get All You Can From Your Money and “Die With Zero”Resources:Episode Transcript & Blog | Hero on a Mission: A Path to a Meaningful Life | Schedule an Introductory Call | Bautis Financial: 7 N Mountain Ave Montclair, New Jersey 07042 (862) 205-5000

This is not an emergency podcast, but, you know, maybe it will be? As questions swirl around what exactly Elon Musk is doing at Twitter (and why) we wanted to take a look at Musk's history and how it might inform WTF is happening now. Fortunately, we're joined by Bloomberg's Ashlee Vance, author of “Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future.” Recode Media's Peter Kafka talks to Vance about Musk's rise, how his public persona changed over the years, and his flirtations with failure. Featuring: Ashlee Vance (@ashleevance), Writer for Bloomberg Host: Peter Kafka (@pkafka), Senior Editor at Recode More to explore: Subscribe for free to Recode Media, Peter Kafka, one of the media industry's most acclaimed reporters, talks to business titans, journalists, comedians, and more to get their take on today's media landscape. About Recode by Vox: Recode by Vox helps you understand how tech is changing the world — and changing us. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

In this episode of The Agent of Wealth Podcast, the Bautis Financial team discusses the sixth book assignment in their monthly Book Club, Think Again: The Power of Knowing What You Don't Know by Adam Grant. In 320 pages, Grant weaves together research, analysis and storytelling to help readers build the intellectual and emotional muscle required to stay curious enough about the world to actually change it. In this episode, we discuss:What it means to think like a scientist, and why we should all employ this strategy.What confirmation bias is and how it can affect your decision-making skills.How to embrace the joy of being wrong.And more!This is the sixth episode in the Bautis Financial Book Club series. Listen to the other episodes:Episode 75 – Bautis Financial Book Club: Atomic Habits by James ClearEpisode 76 – Bautis Financial Book Club: The Infinite Game by Simon SinekEpisode 88 – Bautis Financial Book Club: Elon Musk – Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future by Ashlee VanceEpisode 100 – Bautis Financial Book Club: Animal Spirits by George Akerlof and Robert ShillerEpisode 109 – Bautis Financial Book Club: Stacked: Your Super-Serious Guide to Modern Money ManagementResources:Episode Transcript & Blog | Think Again: The Power of Knowing What You Don't Know | Schedule an Introductory Call | Bautis Financial: 7 N Mountain Ave Montclair, New Jersey 07042 (862) 205-5000

*Elon Musk is an enigma. His vision seems to be motivated by a love for humanity, but he has no trouble treating individuals poorly. *He's left two ex-wives and countless ex-SpaceX and ex-Tesla employees in his wake, but he wants to ensure the survival of our species. *What drives him towards achievements that seem closer to fiction than reality? *Bloomberg reporter Ashlee Vance's book, Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future, is a compelling read and offers some plausible explanations. Theme 1: The Businesses - 0:29 Theme 2: The Man - 13:55 Theme 3: The Question - 23:12 Like what you hear? Be sure to like & subscribe to support this podcast! Also leave a comment and let us know your thoughts on the episode. You can also get a free weekly email about the Book Insight of the week. Subscribe at memod.com/insights Want quick save-able, share-able bullet points on this book? Check out the Memo: https://memod.com/TomBBBusiness/a-white-knuckle-ride-early-days-of-spacex-3980 HEAR THE FULL INTERVIEWS MENTIONED IN TODAYS' EPISODE HERE: Rogan, Joe. “Joe Rogan - Elon Musk Explains His Flamethrower Idea.” YouTube, YouTube, 6 Sept. 2018, www.youtube.com/watch?v=HfqtKPP2_6M. Musk, Elon. “SpaceX CEO Elon Musk Sees 70% Chance He'll Go to Mars.” YouTube, Axios, 25 Nov. 2018, www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dfg1n7Lh62Q. Musk, Elon. “Elon Musk Might Be A Super Villain.” YouTube, The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, 10 Sept. 2015, www.youtube.com/watch?v=gV6hP9wpMW8. Musk, Elon. “Joe Rogan - How Elon Musk's Mind Works.” YouTube, Joe Rogan Show, 7 Sept. 2018, www.youtube.com/watch?v=syxnecAIBzg&has_verified=1. Musk, Elon. “How Tesla Nearly Died: Elon Musks's Long Nights | AXIOS on HBO.” YouTube, YouTube, 25 Nov. 2018, www.youtube.com/watch?v=tRb6kQE7uYc. HBO, Axios. “Merging AI & Man: Elon Musk's Vision for The Future | AXIOS on HBO.” YouTube, YouTube, 25 Nov. 2018, www.youtube.com/watch?v=y6GEugjulPw. National, Geographic. “SpaceX Makes History | MARS.” YouTube, YouTube, 19 Dec. 2016, www.youtube.com/watch?v=brE21SBO2j8. videos, Elon Musk best. “Young Elon Musk Featured in Documentary about Millionaires (1999).” YouTube, YouTube, 24 Oct. 2015, www.youtube.com/watch?v=eb3pmifEZ44. Motivation, Alpha Male. “Elon Musk Smokes Weed | Joe Rogan Podcast.” YouTube, YouTube, 7 Sept. 2018, www.youtube.com/watch?v=-VcCzKjXs-8. TED. “The Future We're Building -- and Boring | Elon Musk.” YouTube, YouTube, 3 May 2017, www.youtube.com/watch?v=zIwLWfaAg-8. Full Title: Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future Year of Publication: 2015 Book Author: Ashlee Vance To purchase the complete edition of this book click here: https://tinyurl.com/4ubpvnws Book Insight Writer: Joe Barnes Editor: Tom Butler-Bowden Producer: Daniel Gonzalez Production Manager: Karin Richey Curator: Tom Butler-Bowden Narrator: Elliott Schiff

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In this episode of The Agent of Wealth Podcast, the Bautis Financial team discusses the fifth book assignment in their monthly Book Club, Stacked: Your Super-Serious Guide to Modern Money Management by Joe Saul-Sehy and Emily Guy Birken. In discussing Stacked, each member of the team discusses their favorite topic from the 14-chapter book, and provides actionable tips for managing financial matters like debt, insurance coverage and credit score.In this episode, we discuss the team's favorite chapters of Stacked, on the topics of:DebtInsuranceCredit CardsGoal SettingThis is the fifth episode in the Bautis Financial Book Club series. Listen to the other episodes:Episode 75 – Bautis Financial Book Club: Atomic Habits by James ClearEpisode 76 – Bautis Financial Book Club: The Infinite Game by Simon SinekEpisode 88 – Bautis Financial Book Club: Elon Musk – Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future by Ashlee VanceEpisode 100 – Bautis Financial Book Club: Animal Spirits by George Akerlof and Robert ShillerResources:Episode Transcript & Blog | Stacked: Your Super-Serious Guide to Modern Money Management | Episode 108 – Stacked: Your Super-Serious Guide to Modern Money Management With Emily Guy Birken | Bautis Financial: 7 N Mountain Ave Montclair, New Jersey 07042 (862) 205-5000

“The quality of our lives depends not on whether we have conflicts, but on how we respond to them” - Thomas Crum Today I will be speaking to a man whose compelling life story has left me speechless. He has been through life-threatening circumstances but still managed to become the amazing positive person he is today.  My guest Paul Nadeau is a Canadian former hostage negotiator, peacekeeper, author, screenwriter, motivational, and keynote speaker. He grew up in a violent home. Teachers and students looked down upon him but he was able to turn things around and was even able to publish a bestseller entitled Hostage to Myself.  Take a moment and let Paul's thoughts and ideals inspire you. You too, can be a hero. Highlights: ✅ We are more similar than we are different.  ✅ It is important to put yourself in someone else's shoes.  ✅ Reacting is different from responding. Reacting leads to conflict, depression, and anxiety. ✅ A winner's mindset: Responds instead of reacting and chooses to make positive responses. Believes in oneself and moves forward with confidence despite the difficulties. Practices the golden rule. Start each day with gratitude.   Important stories: ✍

“The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.” - Eleanor Roosevelt Does it seem like you are stuck in a loop? Have you ever asked yourself why you seem to be going nowhere? Why are others able to have a better future? Can you have a much better life than what you presently have? Believe me, I have as well asked those questions before and searched for answers. I am now living a more fulfilling life and will continue to have an awesome future despite life's challenges.  Lend me your ears for a little while as I divulge my epiphanies. We can all have a remarkable future.  Highlights: ✅ Resisting temptation is a constant battle between the present and the future self. ✅ We are driven by the imagination of our future.  ✅ We decide who we want to become. Biggest threats: Having no connection with future self  Lacking empathy and discipline Losing hope and failing to prospect Selling yourself short  Failing to commit to creating a greater and more inspiring legacy Important stories: ✍

Managing Director of Partner Limited, Sebastian Starosta, sat down with host of Talkin' Shop, Tyler Kern, to discuss the partnership between Partner and Walbro.Partner Limited is an industrial leader of machine parts located in Poland serving the diverse Europe area. Depending on the country, Partner operates as a B2B or B2C distributor according to that area's needs.Partner's portfolio includes equipment parts for machines like lawn mowers and tractors, brush cutters, cattle saws, guzzling engines, and water pumps. They are an exclusive representative for several brands in the Polish and Europe market, like Walbro. At Partner, a top priority is to remain relevant and competitive with new trends. One of those rapid-growing markets is cordless equipment. To fulfill this demand, Partner added batteries for cordless machines to their product offering

From 2 University Degrees to 20 Billion Dollars - This is Elon Musk's Ultimate Advice for high school students and college graduates. Can't find a job? Neither could billionaire Elon Musk.Speakers:Elon MuskGet his book: Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future: https://amzn.to/2r6xHEEMusic: Really Slow Motion: https://bit.ly/RSMMusicDisclaimer: Please note some links above are affiliate links. If you use them and make a purchase we receive a commission. Thank you for your support! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

El evento del año, Tesla Cyber Rodeo en Austin Texas lo que significa para USA. A continuación te presento el libro autorizado por Elon Musk.Video: https://youtu.be/jC3zJ7cvogQ★ Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future► https://amzn.to/38FP7jZ► ¡No olvides de suscribirte!https://youtube.com/berlingonzalez► Contacto (English - Español)tendenciastech@outlook.com► PodcastApple Podcast: http://apple.co/2CtwnidSpotify: https://spoti.fi/2lJKPzyAmazon Music: https://amzn.to/3dHBosPGoogle Podcast: https://bit.ly/3eqNnKzCastBox: https://bit.ly/33jyB4e► Redes SocialesYT: https://www.youtube.com/berlingonzalezTW: https://www.twitch.tv/berlingonzalezsFB: https://www.facebook.com/BerlinGonzalezsTT: https://www.tiktok.com/@berlingonzalezsTW: https://twitter.com/berlingonzalezsIN: https://www.instagram.com/berlingonzalezs► Donacioneshttps://www.paypal.me/tendenciastechhttps://www.patreon.com/tendenciastech#BerlinGonzalez #Tesla #ElonMuskSupport this show http://supporter.acast.com/tendenciastech. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

In this episode of The Agent of Wealth Podcast, the Bautis Financial team discusses the fourth book assignment in their monthly Book Club, Animal Spirits: How Human Psychology Drives the Economy, and Why It Matters for Global Capitalism by George Akerlof and Robert Shiller. In Animal Spirits, Nobel prize winner George Akerlof and Yale economics professor Robert Shiller assert that traditional economic theory places too much weight on quantifiable facts and not enough weight on emotion – “People have noneconomic motives. And they are not always rational in pursuit of their economic interests.”In this episode, we discuss:The five different aspects of Animal Spirits: confidence, the desire for fairness, corruption, money illusion and the importance of stories.Whether or not we believe the concept of Animal Spirits should be incorporated into macroeconomic theory.What our team liked most about the book.What our team learned and took away from the book.And more!This is the fourth episode in the Bautis Financial Book Club series. Listen to the other episodes:Episode 88 – Bautis Financial Book Club: Elon Musk – Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future by Ashlee VanceEpisode 76 – Bautis Financial Book Club: The Infinite Game by Simon SinekEpisode 75 – Bautis Financial Book Club: Atomic Habits by James ClearResources:Episode Transcript & Blog | Animal Spirits: How Human Psychology Drives the Economy, and Why It Matters for Global Capitalism | Bautis Financial: (862) 205-5000

As founder of SpaceX, Tesla, and The Boring Company—and co-founder of Neuralink and OpenAI—Elon Musk is one of the most impressive people on Earth. Though flawed in some respects, he's nonetheless an industrial giant who is demonstrating what man is capable of.   #elonmusk #spacex #teslamotors #mars #nasa   Are you interested in learning about Ayn Rand's Objectivism? Check out this FREE ebook:

Shawn Coleman breaks down the Game 5 and Season Ending loss to the Jazz, highlights four instant reactions from this series that impacts where the Grizzlies as a roster and where they need to be, and four reasons as to why this series was an experience to cherish for all Grizzlies fans and the franchise.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

It's important to differentiate yourself to potential clients, who likely receive dozens of emails each day. Instead of sending long emails, video messaging tools allow entrepreneurs to engage their audience in a personalized, compelling way that sets them apart from others who are still using old techniques. Anthony Milia owns a marketing firm that serves businesses of all sizes: from mom-and-pop to Fortune 500. He launched the business as soon as he graduated from college figuring he could fail fast and learn quick.  Recording video Three primary tools exist for business owners who want to record video or grab screen recordings or share their screens: Loom, Dubb, and Vidyard.  These tools allow you to share videos through email and build it into your sales funnel to monitor how well they're working. Users can monitor how much time the audience is spending with the videos and respond accordingly based on the insights they gain. Anyone within small business can use this kind of tool for training, or for business development.  Video offers a different way to communicate through email, and it can help you get your point across better for your audience.  Being different Anthony previously used regular emails or phone call to communicate with his audience, but he wanted a way to differentiate himself. He discovered that these videos allow him to more thoroughly explain his message in a personalized way that he can also track. He gets notified when the user opens the video, so he can follow up knowing that the user has engaged with the content.  In sales, for example, it's a powerful way to grab your prospects' attention. You can use it before a meeting, or for a follow-up to a meeting where you might share next steps.  Video is underutilized in this way, so your efforts will immediately help you stand out. Streamline your process These videos also work well on your website, allowing you to feature a video on your homepage with an included call-to-action. You can, for example, add a CTA within the video that prompts users to share their email or some other information. Tools like Vidyard can also be integrated with CRMs like Salesforce and Hubspot as well as Zapier to help you further streamline your entire process.  All three of these video tools offer a free plan as well as a monthly subscription that gives the user access to even more features.  Peaks and valleys of entrepreneurship Anthony spent the first couple of years in business building processes and working to get his name out to the public. It was slow, but the key was delivering good work. They work to get things done right the first time, to get it done right on time, and to over-deliver.  Clients don't leave when you're providing what they are asking for and constantly improving the client experience.  Show up every day in your business and identify how you can improve 1 percent every day, either personally or professionally. Identify bottlenecks and find ways to make things more efficient and effective.  It's easy to get caught up in busy work so that you miss the important work.  Digital Marketing The MORE Podcast strives to connect with experts and master users who understand how digital marketing tools work and who can share knowledge with entrepreneurs who aren't tech savvy.  Check out the knowledge Anthony is engaging with now:  Check out The Customer Service Revolution Podcast by John DiJulius and Entrepreneurs on Fire with John Lee Dumas. Grab a copy of Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future by Ashlee Vance and Delivering Happiness: A Path to Profits, Passion, and Purpose by Tony Hsieh.  Check out Loom, Dubb, and Vidyard to better use videos to engage with your audience.

Everything we are experiencing pales in comparison to the fantastic future that lies ahead for those who trust in Jesus Christ.

Everything we are experiencing pales in comparison to the fantastic future that lies ahead for those who trust in Jesus Christ.