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July 15th, 2026

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SpaceX’s own S-1 for the ~$2T June 2026 IPO warned that a debris-generating collision could cascade until some orbital altitudes become unusable — Kessler syndrome, the 1978 NASA paper. Closing speeds run 7–8 km/s: a 1 cm fragment hits like a hand grenade, and ~10,000 of the ~16,000 working satellites overhead are already Starlink. The crash clock — time to first collision if nobody dodges — collapsed from 164 days in 2018 to 2.5 days by May 2026, held together by ~300,000 Starlink avoidance burns in 2025. I walk through solar storms, dead sats, ASAT tests, and why a million orbital-compute satellites plus Blue Origin’s Project Sunrise make the same crowded 500–1,000 km shell the biggest unpriced risk in the space economy.

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I worked at Tesla starting from 2017 thru 2021. I spent most of my time in the distribution and supply chain organizations in leadership positions.

Before Tesla, I was a Director of Business Intelligence and Pricing at the largest Pet Food & Supply distributor in the US, Phillips Pet Food & Supplies. My wife and I also owned a small business in Bethlehem, PA between 2016 and 2019.

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The Scariest Chart in Electrical Engineering

July 14th, 2026

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0:00 The Scariest Chart In Engineering
3:24 Standing Waves And Reflections
7:24 Why does a wave bounce back?
10:15 How to stop a wave from bouncing back
17:06 The Smith Chart
25:53 How To Read The Smith Chart
30:42 This Circuit Gets Better When You Break It
35:22 Why were we slow to use it?
37:06 Is it still useful?

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The Greatest Merger In History (Massive Gamble)

July 10th, 2026

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Two-thirds of the Musk stack already merged — xAI into SpaceX — and Tesla is the last piece sitting outside. On June 17, 2026, five days after SpaceX started trading, Elon exercised ~304 million 2018 CEO options at $23, lifting Tesla voting power from ~13% to ~20% (~700 million shares) and selling 17 million shares for ~$7B to cover strike and tax. The November 2025 pay package walks him toward ~25% control against SpaceX’s ~82–85% super-vote. I break down why xAI/SpaceX went first in Nevada, why Tesla’s $2B xAI investment is already in court, and why the $25B SpaceX bond plus Colossus-as-neo-cloud is the table-setting before the hardest merger.