Reverse Imposter Syndrome: The Loneliest Phase of Building Something New
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Reverse Imposter Syndrome: The Loneliest Phase of Building Something New

Great article on Reverse Imposter Syndrome: https://www.thevccorner.com/p/reverse-imposter-syndrome-founder-visibility-gap There are periods in building a company where, from the outside, nothing seems to be happening. No announcements.No headlines.No visible momentum. And yet — beneath the surface — everything is happening. Design iterations.Decisions with long-term consequences.Quiet progress that doesn’t fit into a press…
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When Lawsuits Become Policy
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When Lawsuits Become Policy

In a recent post, I looked at how differently modern presidents approach conflict. For most presidents, the law is something the state uses. Agencies investigate. Regulators act. The Department of Justice files suit. Conflict moves through institutions, slowly and impersonally, buffered by process and precedent. The president may set priorities,…
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When Standards Matter More Than Strategy
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When Standards Matter More Than Strategy

Source: https://www.cnbc.com/2026/02/06/trump-obama-post-white-house.html I have spent most of my professional life working across borders—geographic, cultural, institutional, and ideological. Aviation, by its very nature, demands this. Airplanes do not care about politics. Physics is stubbornly bipartisan. And progress, when it happens, almost always comes from collaboration among people who do not think…
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Presidents and Conflicts
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Presidents and Conflicts

Donald Trump is clearly a different kind of president than Biden, Obama, Bush, or Clinton. For them, conflict tends to be institutional. Disputes move through agencies, regulators, and courts in the name of the public. The president may set priorities, but the litigation itself is impersonal—buffered by process, precedent, and…
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Ingenuity on Mars
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Autonomous eVTOL Is Hard. Try Doing It on Mars.

Over 600 companies are currently developing electric vertical takeoff and landing aircraft—eVTOLs—to transform urban mobility on Earth. The promise is seductive: shorter trips between airports and city centers, fewer cars, less friction. Many of these aircraft are being designed to fly autonomously. That alone is a formidable challenge. Autonomous vertical…
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Who is “Running the World?”
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Who is “Running the World?”

A question that hit closer to home than intended. I received an email recently with the subject line: “Who is running the world?”It contained a list of prominent companies and political offices led by people of Indian origin, followed by the implied conclusion that “Indians” are now somehow in control…
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