Why this newsletter?
The ability to communicate is a fundamental differentiator between us and other species. This divide highlights how important it is for a society to communicate, whether for entertainment or learning. Communication is fundamental to the human experience.
It is this core thesis that has motivated me to want to start this newsletter. Through my life journey of working at Tesla, SpaceX, and Kepler and eventually founding my startup, I have had the opportunity to access multiple worlds. To make multiple mistakes. To learn multiple lessons. All of which I wish to communicate and share in hopes of starting a conversation.
Being a space nerd, I decided to call this newsletter Mariner Four, which in 1964 became the first successful probe to return close-up pictures of the Martian surface. They say a picture is worth a thousand words; I wonder how many individuals were inspired by those words?