Shawn Ryan

Like, you know, maybe studying like the fundamental laws of nature would help you more than studying like coding or something if like the new tech is like other drones or better engine design or whatever for like pushing aerospace forward.

So very naive, but kind of disappointed with the fact that you could see that even at a big company that's doing some awesome things like

there's a sense in which you can get lost in the R&D phase.

So I think what I'm saying is just like a lot of times you can see it in like, and I see this in physics with people who complain about physics who are not necessarily in the in crowd or whatever.

And like they can say true things and maybe draw the wrong conclusions about intent or about like what to do about it.

I think that oftentimes like you can just kind of see that there's like a lot of low hanging fruit and then it stagnates a bit.

And like, I mean, to the extent that like, you know, the design for like a passenger airplane really hasn't changed so much.

And so like, do you just look at like, try to find a definition of progress and see that it's slowing down and not blame yourself for not being smart enough, but try to see like, what do I actually care about?

Do I like it because I like doing the thing or do I want a product?

And once you have the product in mind, probably it's easier to decide like what you need to learn and go do.

Yeah.

A little bit, but that was so short.

That was like, I mean, so the internships at Boeing was a real normal internship.

And then the one where I was at Blue Origin was some mentors were nice and like, let me, I forget exactly.

I probably can't even, I'm glad I can pretend that this is an NDA thing.

I don't remember exactly all the utility of the thing that I was playing with at the time there.

And then the one at NASA was also very much more like show and tell.

It felt like we were learning operations instead of any particular cool tech.

But we got to see a lot of fun stuff on the tours.

Like, I thought the coolest thing was somehow these, like, tiles where you could heat it up and it would still be really hot on the inside and you could touch it on the outside.