I spend too much time making one cup of coffee.
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21 Jul 2025
Good restaurants are forgettable. Great ones leave an imprint on you.
I wrote about Bar Cañete in Barcelona and what makes a restaurant unforgettable. jongalpern.substack.com/p/wh…
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13 Jul 2025
If you're a sports fan who hasn't watched any of the Sinner vs. Alcaraz rivalry, you're missing out on the absolute best tennis has to offer. Now's the time to get in.
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2 May 2025
Thank you, Coach Pop, for your brilliance on and off the court. We look forward to our next chapter together.
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5 Dec 2024
When Joe first spoke to me about joining Umbra almost four years ago. He waxed poetic about how I'd have the opportunity to tell truly meaningful stories with our data.
This is one of those stories.
I'd like nothing more than to support more of these stories. DMs open.
5 Dec 2024
There is a dire situation unfolding in Darfur due to civil war - displaced civilians are dying of starvation in droves, and the only clue we have to the extent of the travesty are the growing mass graves visible in satellite imagery. Out today from Reuters:
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4 Sep 2024
Venerunt, partiuntur, relinquentes
(They came, they partied, they left)
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10 Aug 2024
I learned about Mike Maples’ framework for identifying “pattern breaking companies” on a recent podcast (I’ll link it at the end):
Inflection > Insight > Idea > Movement
Below is my analysis of why Umbra is a pattern breaking company 🧵
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1 Mar 2024
We've officially crossed over $4 million of free SAR data released into our open data program! umbra.space/blog/umbra-relea…
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8 Feb 2024
SQM Salar de Atacama Lithium Mine | 1m, 4x-Multilook
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6 Feb 2024
Paris, France | 50cm, 10x-multilook Colorized Sub-Aperture (CSI) TIFF
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4 Feb 2024
McMurdo Station, Antarctica | 50cm, 2x-multi-look
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19 Jan 2024
Umbra SAR satellites captured Grindavik, Iceland before and after the recent eruption. A simple two-color diff shows the location of the lava flows and departed ships. Blue is lava. Red is ice melting.
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9 Jan 2024
Today Built In released their best places to work lists, and Umbra was ranked:
#5 best midsize to work for in D.C.
#15 best midsize to work for in Austin
#21 best midsize to work for in greater LA
We have 13 job openings across software, sales, and more bit.ly/3tLuBJy
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29 Dec 2023
Our 2024 New Year’s Resolution is to share one beautiful SAR image a day.
Our highest resolution is for every daily image to be crowd contributed.
Share your suggestions here! forms.gle/ht2p5HpYHpbTRvGq5
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29 Dec 2023
Some cold, hard numbers from Hudson Institute. Let’s take an honest look at what these two charts mean.
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6 Dec 2023
With all those SARbucks we're giving away, millennials can finally skip making coffee at home.
6 Dec 2023
GEOINT is the Woodstock of remote sensing, I’m down to get crazy @mouthofmorrison Call it, 1 image per day at $1000 asp * 365 (days) * (100 years) = $36,000,000 - don’t care about giving away $36M dollars in data.
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17 Aug 2023
Recently we announced 16cm resolution data, the highest resolution SAR ever released. Today, three examples of that data have been released freely and openly: umbra-open-data-catalog.s3-w…
Let me explain what the *real* story is here, which I don't think is obvious...
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11 Aug 2023
A rare chance to join the rocket ship as a non-engineer and to work closely with me and my incredible colleagues on the customer success team: umbralab.bamboohr.com/career…
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7 Aug 2023
Record-breaking 16-cm resolution. And we're just getting started. umbra.space/blog/umbra-gener…
7 Aug 2023
This morning, we shared some huge news courtesy of Payload space. We're now able to sell 16cm SAR imagery, the highest resolution SAR ever made publicly available and close to the native capability of our system. But there's more to this story... payloadspace.com/umbra-relea…
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2 Aug 2023
The SAR at night is big and bright 👏👏
Deep in the heart of midnight 👏👏
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2 Aug 2023
My own trailer 😁! Counting down the days until the world premiere of TreadSetters August 18 in Steamboat Springs for @sbtgrvl FLM FST
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