Reading List

It’s Time to Build | Andreessen Horowitz

Every Western institution was unprepared for the coronavirus pandemic, despite many prior warnings. This monumental failure of institutional effectiveness will reverberate for the rest of the decade, but it’s not too early to ask why, and what we need to do about it. Many of us would like to pin the cause on one political…

Andreessen HorowitzMarc Andreessen

Probably the most inspiring thing I've read. I think innovation should be a priority and this essay presents that perfectly.

GPS – Bartosz Ciechanowski

Interactive article explaining how GPS works.

Bartosz Ciechanowski

The most high quality blog on the internet. I think every post could make this list. I chose this post specifically since it was released as I was modeling some GPS related behavior for my work at United Launch Alliance and it really helped me connect some dots.

How to be a -10x Engineer

Taylor Troesh

All of Taylors writing is really good, but I find myself sending this to coworkers often and it is usually a pretty sobering read that can help you get back on an efficient track.

The Story of Titanium

The earth contains a lot of titanium - it’s the ninth most abundant element in the earth’s crust.

Construction PhysicsBrian Potter

Great insight on economies of scale and just how capable the US Gov. was at innovating in aerospace.

Pauls Online Math Notes

Welcome to my math notes site. Contained in this site are the notes (free and downloadable) that I use to teach Algebra, Calculus (I, II and III) as well as Differential Equations at Lamar University. The notes contain the usual topics that are taught in those courses as well as a few extra topics that I decided to include just because I wanted to. There are also a set of practice problems, with full solutions, to all of the classes except Differential Equations. In addition there is also a selection of cheat sheets available for download.

Pauls note presentation style clicked with me far more than textbooks, so I give this website a lot of credit for getting me through college.

Akin’s Laws of Spacecraft Design

Lots of wisdom here. Super impressive how well its held up considering that spaceflight has gone through massive changes in the past decade.

The Lunacy of Artemis

For the first time since the 1960’s, it looks doubtful whether the US space agency is even capable of getting us to the Moon.

Really good critique of the ConOps for the Artemis program.

bliki: Given When Then

a bliki entry for Given When Then

martinfowler.comMartin Fowler

A majority of my professional career has been writing tests, I've tried quite a few methods but this is definitely the best. If you are writing tests that ever need to be updated you will greatly thank yourself for writing them in a way that is easy for future people to understand.

styleguide

Style guides for Google-originated open-source projects