When Elon Musk decided he wanted to send the first rocket to Mars, he went rocket shopping. That’s when he found out the price of a rocket was astronomical, yet materials only accounted for 2-3% of the cost. So, he decided to build his own rocket and SpaceX was born. The end result is a company that will soon provide connectivity to every person on earth, something we wrote about in our piece on The Global Impact of Cheap Satellites and Launches.
Elon Musk employs what’s called “first principles thinking” which is not just a great phrase to use when someone asks you a question in a meeting and you’re hard up for a clever response. We can describe first principles by citing cryptic stuff Aristotle said, or we can sum it up simply in a single sentence as James Clear did – “the best solution is not where everyone is already looking.”
So, when a man who embodies first principles thinking decides to acquire what someone else thought up, you know it’s something special. Today, we’re going to take a look at a company called Swarm Technologies that was recently acquired by SpaceX.
Continue reading: https://www.nanalyze.com/2021/08/spacex-internet-of-things/
Elon Musk employs what’s called “first principles thinking” which is not just a great phrase to use when someone asks you a question in a meeting and you’re hard up for a clever response. We can describe first principles by citing cryptic stuff Aristotle said, or we can sum it up simply in a single sentence as James Clear did – “the best solution is not where everyone is already looking.”
So, when a man who embodies first principles thinking decides to acquire what someone else thought up, you know it’s something special. Today, we’re going to take a look at a company called Swarm Technologies that was recently acquired by SpaceX.
Continue reading: https://www.nanalyze.com/2021/08/spacex-internet-of-things/
