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The Old Guard & The New Space Age

  The Old Guard & The New Space Age Contents Sanity Checks The Role Of Oversight Fortifying Our Teams A New Era What Needs To Happen? Estimation Of Effort Our Space Future Civilizing The New Wild West __ One of our strengths as humans is the ability to evaluate the future and make plans. It’s how we have civilizations, train schedules, tiered prizes for ugly sweater contests, elections … You get the idea. We look ahead. We estimate what will be needed. We prepare. Not always perfectly, of course, sometimes quite horribly, but the fact that an Empire State Building exists in New York City – or that a New York City exists at all – would seem to speak to the notion that, mostly, we’re pretty damn good at figuring out how to do stuff. When it comes to space a storm is brewing. One we may not be planning well enough for. A wave we need to get ahead of. Many are aware of it. Many are pushing for action. It’s time to give it the full focus of our attention it deserves. It’s time to apply
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Moonshot Mindset

  The Moonshot Mindset Contents The Moonshot Mindset Doing It Moving the Needle Responsibility Good Control The Importance of Asking Questions Ethics Greatest Good Trade-Offs > Failure The Turning Point __ We used to live in caves and fear tigers in the bushes. We no longer live in caves and no longer fear tigers in the bushes. Today we live in cities and fear other things. One day we’ll live on entire other worlds and have all-new new fears, but the fact is we’ll be living on other worlds and all our troubles of the present will, in the same way, seem quaint. Progress is part of our existence. The Moonshot Mindset So what are we dealing in? Growth. Big Think. Gains. Pushing the technology envelope. Creating bold futures on all fronts. In short, the “Moonshot Mindset”. You’ve probably heard the term before, coined during the Space Race of the 60s, where it epitomized the thinking behind the literal slew of incredible, impossible, can’t-be-done items on the checklist to get a man
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