Author Archives: Austin

Breakdown of Q1 2025 Space Activities

The first quar­ter of 2025 has proven to be a water­shed moment in the space indus­try, marked by ground­break­ing achieve­ments and sober­ing set­backs. From SpaceX’s his­toric first polar crewed mis­sion to the evolv­ing land­scape of satel­lite com­mu­ni­ca­tions, the indus­try con­tin­ues… con­tin­ue read­ing »

Changes to the Small Business Administration

As some­one who has spent over two decades work­ing with gov­ern­ment con­trac­tors and small busi­ness­es, I want to share my per­spec­tive on the announced SBA changes. These shifts rep­re­sent sig­nif­i­cant changes in how small busi­ness­es inter­act with the fed­er­al gov­ern­ment,… con­tin­ue read­ing »

DOGE Facts

The vit­ri­ol and per­son­al attacks by Democ­rats and left-of-cen­ter media regard­ing Elon Musk’s involve­ment in the audit of the U.S. gov­ern­ment con­tin­ue to demon­strate intel­lec­tu­al dis­hon­esty because: Here is the break­down of the facts: 1. Musk’s role: Musk is part of… con­tin­ue read­ing »

Economic Darwinism: A Deep Dive into the Catalyst for Innovation and Progress

After read­ing Poor Charlie’s Almanack: The Wit and Wis­dom of Charles T. Munger, I was drawn to the con­cept of Eco­nom­ic Dar­win­ism. This term, coined in the late 19th cen­tu­ry, applies the prin­ci­ples of Charles Darwin’s the­o­ry of evo­lu­tion to… con­tin­ue read­ing »

Stochastic Terrorism

In an era of unprece­dent­ed glob­al con­nec­tiv­i­ty, the pow­er of words has nev­er been more potent. While this inter­con­nect­ed­ness has brought numer­ous ben­e­fits, it has also giv­en rise to new threats, one of which is sto­chas­tic ter­ror­ism. This con­cept, though… con­tin­ue read­ing »

USSF versus USSPACECOM

As I trav­el around the space indus­try, I often find a lot of con­fu­sion about which gov­ern­ment orga­ni­za­tion is respon­si­ble for what and their dis­tinct roles and respon­si­bil­i­ties. Over the upcom­ing weeks, I will write a series of blog posts… con­tin­ue read­ing »

Challenges of DoD AI/ML Path

As the Depart­ment of Defense (DoD) con­tin­ues to explore dif­fer­ent use cas­es for inte­grat­ing Arti­fi­cial Intel­li­gence (AI) into its every­day process­es, it must learn from past lessons where AI deploy­ments failed. con­tin­ue reading

Bias of Large Language Models

With the increased use of com­mer­cial large lan­guage mod­els (LLM) in sci­en­tif­ic research, it is more impor­tant than ever to use crit­i­cal think­ing to ask ques­tions and under­stand respons­es. Before we focus on the use of LLM for sci­en­tif­ic research,… con­tin­ue read­ing »

Thoughts on SOF Week 2024

I recent­ly attend­ed Spe­cial Oper­a­tion Force (SOF) Week 2024, which was not just a chance to recon­nect with old friends but also a valu­able plat­form to delve into the evolv­ing needs of our HQ. The SOF Com­mu­ni­ty’s relent­less pur­suit of… con­tin­ue read­ing »

Information Diets and NPCs

Austin dis­cuss­es his prac­tice of zero-inbox, how to main­tain a strict infor­ma­tion diet, and the elim­i­na­tion of Non-Playable Char­ac­ters (NPC) from his dai­ly life con­tin­ue reading

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