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1 in 30 – Artemis, Greatness, and Risk.

During the Artemis II launch, people were shocked when I told them the official ~~survivability~~ crew mortality threshold SpaceX’s Dragon had to meet to fly under Commercial Crew & Cargo Program (C3P) was 1 in 270,

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Flux Capacitor 2026: Applications Open for 1517 Angel Check Program

A few years ago we launched an angel check program we called the Flux Capacitor. The idea was simple: one of the key chokepoints in American science is that our institutions don’t trust younger scientists to do great work. The average age o...

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Founders - stop using AI to write your investor emails.

I wanted to share some thoughts on something I’ve been seeing more and more: founders using AI to write their investor emails. Founders think that it makes their response more punchy, more detailed, more sophisticated… but in reality, it ma...

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Sci Fi Christmas List

It’s the holiday season, and at 1517, that means we’re going to revisit some of our favorite sci-fi classics. These are films and books that we come back to again and again to further refine our intuition for science, ambition, and what we’...

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Powder & Stone. Or, Why Medieval Rulers Loved Castles.

Thesis: Castles created the modern state. Part 1 of the series explores the technology and why it was so important to medieval Europeans. It answers, “But why castles?”

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    Partner @ 1517 Fund. Thinking about techno-eschatology.

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    I try to learn all the time. I make stuff sometimes. And dream about space the rest of the time. Proud Neptune-stan. Ask me about Neptune.

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    Always looking up. Partner at 1517 Fund.

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