Headed to @reindsummit. You will know me by my belt buckle. See you soon, friends!

Just learned we’re expanding our training into metal powders and additive. Let’s gooooo

Unbelievable progress. Wow.

More metal. Happy Saturday night from your friends at Nox.

I purchased this years ago because it's beautiful, and my end goal is space. It's the centerpiece of my home office. Last week, I was on a Teams call with someone who kept kind of smiling and finally asked about my background. I assumed he was asking about the guitars (my husband's) but no, he was asking about the art. Because he designed it. Crazy. I love my life.

If she wasn’t working for Elon Gwynne Shotwell would be hailed as an incredible success story and the most powerful woman in aerospace. Instead it’s radio silence from the media

The lesson I take from the SpaceX IPO is that the only thing stopping us from solving arbitrarily difficult problems is extreme creativity in business models. No amount of tax and spend programs got us reusable rockets and great electric cars. Customer delight is a necessary precondition for success. There seems to be some discussion around whether successful entrepreneurs should give up control of their companies so they can subsidize some philanthropic venture that otherwise has no value prop sufficient to run it as a business where customers voluntarily exchange money for goods and services at a competitive and reasonable price. This misses the point. Transformational products deliver tangible value at 1000x the rate of charities whose value cannot be tested in the market place. Think about the undeniable value of the smart phone, satellite Internet, electric consumer devices, etc etc. I think the transformational moment for SpaceX was when Elon stepped away from the philanthropic Mars greenhouse concept and fixed his resolve on unlocking radically better rockets for humanity. The greenhouse would have been, at best, a neat trick. Falcon and Starship give humanity a durable economic engine to maintain and improve access to space, forever.

I will be at Reindustrialize next week! Looking forward to seeing many of you.

Was talking to my boss about Vogons and thanks for all the fish and he thought I was having a stroke. I’ve watched it so many times I forget it’s not part of everybody’s lexicon. If you’re ever frustrated with bureaucracy, watch Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy. It won’t solve it, but you’ll have a very funny point of reference.

Really fun to interview my old friend Bret Johnsen in Mission Control. Three parts of the @SpaceX story that I wish were more widely discussed: SpaceX has created thousands of good blue-collar jobs: welders, machinists, electricians. Everyone talks about the need to bring high-paying, blue-collar jobs back to America. SpaceX and Tesla are making that happen. To the best of my knowledge, they have created more manufacturing jobs in the US than just about any other American company over the last ten years. It’s hard to imagine our nascent industrial renaissance succeeding without these companies. SpaceX was started with the goal of putting humans on Mars. And along the way, they have massively improved life for many humans on Earth. Mars may be a starter planet, but Earth is our planet, and the technologies developed at SpaceX are already in use today connecting and safeguarding the people of Earth. Starlink is a really efficient way to bring internet to low-income countries. In Kenya’s remote Murang’a County, Starlink has made it possible for patients in rural villages to consult with medical specialists via telemedicine. In the rainforests of Brazil, Starlink has connected schools to reliable high-speed internet that will provide more educational opportunities to students. Here in America, Starlink has proven vital to emergency teams responding to natural disasters. During Hurricane Helene, the Starlink hubs dropped into North Carolina and East Tennessee were often the only contact point between cut-off towns and the outside world. Literally life-saving. This IPO will be a big milestone for the company. It’s important to celebrate this, while also remembering that making humanity multi-planetary is the ultimate goal. Going to Mars is really hard. There have been many setbacks thus far, ranging from fiery explosions to failed landings. There will be many more. Ad Astra Per Aspera. But SpaceX is at its best *after* a setback imo. Their first 3 launches were “failures”. Had the 4th not succeeded, there might not be a SpaceX today. The company’s success in the face of such daunting odds is a testament to the resilience of the culture and absolute commitment to the mission shared by every employee I’ve ever spoken with. Some of the world’s most talented engineers have chosen to live in Airstreams at Starbase away from their families for weeks on end in service of this goal. I will never forget the welders who told me they signed every weld because they wanted to be accountable if they were responsible for a failure. True missionaries, all of them. I am grateful to every single person at SpaceX for helping to make the future as inspirational as possible. And I will be even more grateful if I get to see a blue sunset on Mars! More info on spacexipo.com

I like the phrasing of “constructive failures” or “intelligent failures” from the book Start-Up Nation: “So long as the risk was taken intelligently, and not recklessly, there is something to be learned.”

In the past month, we have begun the work of doubling the number of training sites across the country (by the end of the year), hosting a 1,500 attendee workforce conference, launching a video series designed to inspire students to pursue careers in advanced manufacturing and placing hundreds of interns in forges, foundries and machine shops across the country. We are reindustrializing.

This DIU solicitation sounds familiar...

Tell every young person who asks for career advice to start building things. Robots, rockets, cars… Join clubs that build stuff. Get internships where you build stuff.

Actual science fiction man, holy hell that's so cool

Cast, forged, machined parts. There will be so much work for the next generation. The future is bright.

Metal. Beautiful. Inspiring. I love the future.