To me the analogy still holds in business context.
I feel like during high school I mostly went straight up and got lucky that a spaceship (company) passed by, snatched me and gave me horizontal velocity. And now I’m on a pretty stable orbit. I could get thrown out the airlock but my horizontal velocity would most likely be enough to grab onto another spaceship.
In retrospect there were things I could have done to start getting some horizontal velocity and making my falling down back to earth less likely.
I’m also thinking that our being in orbit makes it harder to give good advice to our kids just like Dr. Hubble is not the best source of advice for a new graduate student.
Was your trajectory like mine ? Or more horizontal at first ? Or totally different ?
I got snatched by a spaceship in low earth orbit when I made a short hop that was not intended to get me into orbit. Part of that spaceship later crashed but I got out and into another one passing by via a line from a crewmate. I later switched to higher orbit spaceships on my own based on lots of spare fuel I had. I think I could have made better use of my fuel but for me, the sky looked pretty chaotic. I think I give my kids better advice than I had (which is basically none). A lot of that advice is to practice hops early to not worry too much about the perfect start as the rocket technology and the spaceships seem to change fast. Think about it: My current job didn’t even exist when I was their age. I adapt a lot of Paul Graham’s advice too.
I love it. Nice analogy. I considered forwarding it to my son (17). But his interest is more in business and I wonder what the proper analog is there.
To me the analogy still holds in business context.
I feel like during high school I mostly went straight up and got lucky that a spaceship (company) passed by, snatched me and gave me horizontal velocity. And now I’m on a pretty stable orbit. I could get thrown out the airlock but my horizontal velocity would most likely be enough to grab onto another spaceship.
In retrospect there were things I could have done to start getting some horizontal velocity and making my falling down back to earth less likely.
I’m also thinking that our being in orbit makes it harder to give good advice to our kids just like Dr. Hubble is not the best source of advice for a new graduate student.
Was your trajectory like mine ? Or more horizontal at first ? Or totally different ?
I got snatched by a spaceship in low earth orbit when I made a short hop that was not intended to get me into orbit. Part of that spaceship later crashed but I got out and into another one passing by via a line from a crewmate. I later switched to higher orbit spaceships on my own based on lots of spare fuel I had. I think I could have made better use of my fuel but for me, the sky looked pretty chaotic. I think I give my kids better advice than I had (which is basically none). A lot of that advice is to practice hops early to not worry too much about the perfect start as the rocket technology and the spaceships seem to change fast. Think about it: My current job didn’t even exist when I was their age. I adapt a lot of Paul Graham’s advice too.