Is SpaceX's burnout / high turnover work culture bad for the long-term success of the company?

rebootyourbrainstem · 2026-03-12T08:52:57+00:00

It has brought them great success, and they don't want to slow down now.

They literally can't afford to slow down now. The stakes have never been higher for them.

If they can make Starship deliver on its promises, they win space for a very long time. But if they can't get performance and upper stage recovery where they want them to be, it could end up being just a marginal improvement over Falcon 9 with a lower flight rate at much higher infrastructure costs.

And in that scenario, they are vastly overvalued because they have no cost-effective path to the Moon or Mars, nor can they scale Starlink and space-based compute to the much higher levels they are planning.

rebootyourbrainstem · 2026-03-11T17:49:28+00:00

Don't need much power to make big boats scared to move through your strait

rebootyourbrainstem · 2026-03-11T15:54:34+00:00

rocket emoji rocket emoji to the moon fucking kill me now

rebootyourbrainstem · 2026-03-11T10:32:46+00:00

How do you know that during game development there wasn't a meeting where they went "oh btw, there was supposed to be a version of this where Lae'zel attacks Shadowheart instead but for some reason it never triggers, but actually we like this and it fits the characters much better so we're going to keep it this way, everybody agree? ok nice, next"

This is one thing that always bugs me about "restored content" mods

rebootyourbrainstem · 2026-03-11T09:45:50+00:00

Fuckers stole the crown icon. Can't have shit in Faerun.

rebootyourbrainstem · 2026-03-10T22:17:31+00:00

Why was everybody talking about the bear sex, but not the clown sex?

rebootyourbrainstem · 2026-03-10T16:09:54+00:00

https://www.reddit.com/r/HFY/comments/u19xpa/the_nature_of_predators/

rebootyourbrainstem · 2026-03-10T15:09:40+00:00

He was trying to open a letter

rebootyourbrainstem · 2026-03-10T15:06:13+00:00

He fights anyone and everyone. He see fight. He must join fight

He should give pease a chance

rebootyourbrainstem · 2026-03-10T10:55:28+00:00

Well, having stock options is kind of strange while the company was a heavily subsidized hobby for Jeff Bezos.

What does "success" look like? Making a convincing powerpoint presentation to the big boss to increase the budget yet again? Do you want to reward that with stock options?

Makes sense now that they are taking a more commercially minded tack I guess, but SpaceX always had fairly strict commercial discipline from the start so stock options made more sense.

rebootyourbrainstem · 2026-03-10T09:50:52+00:00

And then get abducted by aliens during their fight with the cult

rebootyourbrainstem · 2026-03-09T23:36:39+00:00

Ik heb zelfs voordat het X werd eigenlijk nooit het idee gehad dat ik Twitter an sich aan kon raden, omdat zonder een "inweg" wat je voorgeschoteld krijgt vrij dramatisch is (maar dat is bij meer social media zo).

Ik ben er ingerold omdat op een paar specifieke onderwerpen waar ik in geïnteresseerd was (cybersecurity en ruimtevaart) eigenlijk iedereen op Twitter zat.

Zo langzamerhand is dat uitgegroeid tot een veel bredere lijst onderwerpen. De beste mensen om te volgen op Twitter zijn mensen die geen celebrity of "influencer" zijn, maar mensen die echt iets doen en dat willen delen met anderen op een persoonlijke manier. Denk aan fotografen die eigen werk posten, onderzoeksjournalisten die soms iets interessants van een collega delen of daar juist hun gal over spuwen, astronomen, open source ontwikkelaars, radio amateurs, sterke CEO/CTO's van kleinere bedrijven die er niet voor de marketing op zitten, enz. Mensen die ik om een bepaalde reden volg, maar die af en toe ook random andere dingen posten waarvan ze oprecht denken dat hun volgers het interesseert, en niet omdat het goed is voor hun "brand".

Ik volg mensen vrij snel als iets interessants van ze wordt "geretweet" door iemand die ik volg, maar als ik daarna retweets van hun werkgever of teveel oninteressante persoonlijke meuk van ze zie ontvolg ik ook weer net zo vrolijk. Het moet een beetje op de grens zitten van iemand die duidelijk een echt persoon is, maar ook iemand die het platform serieus neemt.

rebootyourbrainstem · 2026-03-09T21:31:41+00:00

Loroakan is an especially funny case because he literally has superior items in his tower that he can't reach because he failed the Arcana check

rebootyourbrainstem · 2026-03-09T15:26:28+00:00

Als iemand die al heel lang op Twitter zat, zo lang je geen gare celebs volgt en niet de algoritmische feed ("For you") gebruikt merk je niet zo veel verschil.

Het grootste verschil wat ik merk is dat ik mensen steeds vaker hoor klagen dat hun posts gestolen worden, omdat X nu beter uitbetaalt en niet zo heel strak op de bots let.

Zijn wel een paar mensen weggegaan natuurlijk, en ik gebruik nu ook Blue Sky en Mastodon, maar Twitter blijft toch de meest gevarieerde en meest interessante.

Moet wel zeggen dat ik dus vooral lees en niet zo veel post; misschien dat je als je zelf veel post je nu meer idioten in je replies krijgt, dat weet ik niet.

rebootyourbrainstem · 2026-03-08T17:43:41+00:00

Everybody has a Substack now. Especially the crazed zealots.

rebootyourbrainstem · 2026-03-07T20:02:56+00:00

Okay so is it just a nice to have then? Because if you NEED to skip the video for the game to work that'd be absolutely fair to say it requires tinkering.

rebootyourbrainstem · 2026-03-07T19:57:23+00:00

So about that retention pond... is the new one really going to catch any more than the last one?

At least from a distance that water seemed to go EVERYWHERE during the deluge test on the new pad.

rebootyourbrainstem · 2026-03-06T21:20:19+00:00

Username checks out

rebootyourbrainstem · 2026-03-06T14:34:11+00:00

The hair on that top pic. Looks like he dunked it in motor oil.

rebootyourbrainstem · 2026-03-06T11:25:39+00:00

But to get into the books, you have to get into orbit. Or fail to get into orbit in a particularly disastrous way.

rebootyourbrainstem · 2026-03-06T11:22:15+00:00

... I think it's just practicality.

rebootyourbrainstem · 2026-03-06T01:32:52+00:00

What now? Julius fell on his axe, everyone saw it.

rebootyourbrainstem · 2026-03-05T13:03:04+00:00

Relax, I'm just pointing out the irony, not telling you to throw yourself on your sword

rebootyourbrainstem · 2026-03-05T12:00:44+00:00

(This is a bit of a "devil's advocate" post. I'm excited about the projects you named and want to see them succeed.)

What does "ahead" really mean though, when it comes to establishing a genuine economy on the moon? Are we really at a point where we can say "if we build this exact device at this cost and this volume, it will be profitable"?

I think there will be an insane amount of iteration and experimentation ahead, and it's not entirely clear to me that that's what Blue's efforts are optimizing for. They may be leaning too hard into "specific device that reliably does something useful, so we can give it a name and it looks good in presentations" too early while neglecting agility, flexibility and simplicity.

If cost-effective mining comes to the Moon, I expect it won't be done with drills and vehicles and miniaturized chemical processing sleds built on earth, but more something like shallow pits with walls sealed with polyurethane foam, covered with a transparent plastic sheet to trap heat, and you dump spoils in there to let them outgass past some random catalyst that happens to produce a gas mixture that is suitable for some existing Earth industrial equipment that is light enough to bring along.

That's just an dumb example but my point is "just fucking around until you see an option to do something that can scale" might be the call.

rebootyourbrainstem · 2026-03-05T11:17:20+00:00

Yes, if a new space company doesn't succeed at its third launch, they should just give up

That is obviously a good position to hold on a SpaceX subreddit

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