Minutes of a Monday #10
Brain Food > Not banking on space time
“If the only thing you really enjoyed was whipping around Earth in a spaceship, you’d hate being an astronaut. The ratio of prep time to time in orbit is years to single day in space, at best. And many of the variables and circumstances dictating who gets selected for a mission are beyond the astronaut’s control. For instance, after thirty years in service, The Shuttle was retired and replaced with The Soyuz, a much smaller vehicle. Some astronauts hired during Shuttle era are simply too tall to fly in the tiny Soyuz. The possibility that they’ll leave Earth is currently zero. It would be foolhardy to bank on it.”
And this “pessimistic view of my own prospects,” Hadfield reflects, “helped me love my job…throughout the long, unheralded journey that may or may not wind up at the launch pad.”
From Chris Hadfield’s book about An Astronaut’s Guide to Life on Earth.
Soul Food
"There is no need, said the Good Fairy, to walk through every bed of briars you see." Flann O'Brien
Rare Air
"The safest way to try to get what you want is to try to deserve what you want. It's such a simple idea. It's the golden rule. You want to deliver to the world what you would buy if you were on the other end.”
Investor Charlie Munger on creating value.
Appendix
“If you are rich enough, or well advised enough, or clever enough, you can structure your assets in such a way that they become invisible. They can still exist, you can still use them to buy things, still use them to buy political influence and nice houses and yachts.
But when it comes from someone trying to find them, whether that’s a journalist or a police officer the assets are invisible, so that’s what Moneyland is. Moneyland is a place where these assets go.”
Journalist Oliver Bullough in an extract from Episode 7 of The Missing Crypto Queen on BBC Sounds.
LOL
Cillian Murphy just loves interviews.
AOB
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