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From the desk · Jun 12, 2026 · 11 min read
The Day a Rocket Company Rang a Bell
How a company that nearly died on a Pacific atoll became the largest IPO in history, and what it now wants to build above our heads.
Recent writing
Recent writing
- Chapter 3: The Machine Learns to Read
How prediction became the machine’s first way of noticing
- Chapter 2: The People Who Walked Away
Before OpenAI had a model, it had people willing to interrupt their own futures.
- Chapter 1: The Room Where the Bet Was Made
Before ChatGPT became a product, it began as a question: who should shape the future of intelligence?
- Why are we going back to the moon now?
What a StarTalk explainer revealed about why we really went and why we're going back
- The Weekly Commit #010: "Everything, Everywhere, All at Once"
Season One Finale - Nine commits. One question, asked nine different ways.
- The Weekly Commit #009: "Vibing"
Vibe Living to Vibe Coding. Staying curious still matters.
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