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“You can thrift on cost. You can take cost out of a rocket. But I will guarantee you, in my experience, when you start pulling a lot of costs out of a rocket, y
by pbateman 14y ago
“You can thrift on cost. You can take cost out of a rocket. But I will guarantee you, in my experience, when you start pulling a lot of costs out of a rocket, your quality and your probability of success in delivering a payload to orbit diminishes.’’
This sounds similar to the cry of every company that is about to be painfully disrupted.
- confluence 14y agoThis is why assume-worst-case/at the edge/corner case thinking is particularly useful. > OK guys let's invert our thinking and stop joking around for a moment. Let's say SpaceX is going to destroy us. Now what do we do? Being able to think like that should somewhat immunize people against disruption.