If you’re reading this, well, frankly, that’s amazing. I mean, you’re not me, so that means I’ve already significantly exceeded my readership expectations. So, thanks. This is a bit of a reboot. I salvaged one old Medium post from (checks calendar), um, 2015. So I need to work on my writing habit. The key is to never stop trying, right? What will you find here? I tend to like to write about stuff that gets you thinking.

I launched model rockets as a kid and managed to recover at least some of them, so I was pretty excited to see what SpaceX managed to pull off yesterday. But when it comes to understanding the hard requirements of putting a significant payload into orbit, I know pretty much nothing. And that probably comes close to describing Elon Musk’s situation when he started thinking about SpaceX. As an entrepreneur though, he didn’t have to know much.