As someone with very little background (but a lot of interest) in space tech, could you share a little about what results that growth in launch rate will have?
Not OP but basic economics dictates that high demand = high supply (i.e. low prices). The entry barrier to launching a satellite is lower today than it ever has been before. Civilian entities from private companies to high school clubs have successfully launched cubesats from SpaceX rockets.
We will basically see what happened to computing happen to space. Remember the mainframes of the 70s that cost millions and only governments and megacorps could afford? Remember how those gave way to the personal computer, the laptop, and eventually the smartphone and tablet?
Now, it's pretty unlikely that every citizen in the country will get their own cubesat, but what is more likely is that if you are a normal private citizen who has an idea predicated on having a satellite overhead (think: localized aerial surveys, more accurate GPS, real time weather updates), you will be able to put together the capital needed to get that satellite launched.
Personally I'm excited to see the rise of satellite "cloud" services, like AWS, in which one satellite can use its sensors and cameras to serve hundreds of thousands of customers at once. How cool would it be to spend $20/mo to host a global satellite based chat service for you and your friends?
I can only speak from my personal experience with burnout, but I found that one of the hardest parts of recovering was the fact that it simply takes time. I quit my job and tried to make immediate, drastic lifestyle changes expecting immediate, drastic improvements, but burnout takes a while to develop and a while to recover from.
For me, the best thing was to find some stability (spending more time with my SO and exercising—albeit extremely simply, literally just going for a quick run each day) was key.
Does anyone else find that the simple act of writing notes helps them remember and process better? I spent forever trying to find an ideal note-taking solution, but now I just write things in a single notebook. I rarely review my notes, but I find that simply writing thoughts down consistently has improved my memory and understanding of new concepts.
Yes, the effectiveness of note-taking (particularly handwritten) on memory has been a subject of scientific interest for a while.
I feel it shares aspects with Rubber Duck Debugging: The effort of taking something you "know" and forcing it back out through other brain-circuits (i.e. language and/or simulating a social interaction) helps to fill gaps that your brain would otherwise skip over. The act of hearing/seeing your output also causes other parts of your brain to analyze it as if it were someone else's thought.
I suspect our consciousness isn't nearly as unified as we like to believe.
Tests in middle school, I could recall writing things down, even the part of the page I wrote them in.
By college I would write TODO's down and lose them, and not be able to recall what I wrote down. Misplacing the note was more likely than forgetting the task, so I stopped writing them down.
I should try to measure this again because right now I couldn't tell you which works better.
One of the most uncomfortable things about getting older is that in your teens and 20's you spent all this time figuring out who you are, what you like, what you're good at and what you struggle with. Age, changes in health, coping mechanisms, changes in perspective all fuck around with this and you can find yourself in situations you should avoid or avoiding situations you could embrace.
This certainly applies for me personally. My theory is that it ties in with the sort of 'geographic' memory where when you think of something, you might not be able to remember exactly what it is, but you can remember pretty precisely that it's in the middle of a certain notebook, on a heavily marked-up page, in the bottom left corner. By tying things to a location which you can remember, placing it in a bit of a context, its easier to hold on to. I also find, and for this I have no explanation at all, that I can remember sequences of numbers and code very well, better than anything else. I couldn't tell you the date I started or left my job 2 employers ago, but I could rattle off my 7-digit numeric security code for the door no problem. The brain is weird.
I think notetaking is way to "materialize" thoughts. In which I mean a thought is bunch of uncertain values within a rough area, and they come a go fast. But writting it down makes the values clear and specific and puts and gives you something to remember, instead of something to think.
Hm, basically it's making real final decision, instead of playing with a bunch of potenial possible decisions which are all somewhat equal, but also kinda fuzzy,
This is well-known. Hand-writing are found in research to work very well, though digital note-taking also works. Those dilligent students were rewarded, though very good to learn this yourself!
I've found Freemind to work well enough for me. Search not needed as I browse the graph easily enough.
Very much so. For me, note-taking also forces basic internal thought (I guess what you called process) as well, which is great. As I'm writing down the note, the next line has a relatively high percentage chance of being "wait, no that can't be right because X".
I am now dabbling with reviewing them, although not sure what that will lead to, as they are so unstructured. There are generally a few gems in there to be remembered, but mostly spur of the moment gibberish!
I think there is a lot of truth to this, however I also (when I remember to) like to review notes I wrote a month or so later, and check to see if they make any sense to me. If they don't it means I didn't understand the concept as well as I thought I did and it is worth going back over the source material.
It seems perfectly rational to me. Streaming platforms' competitive advantage vs piracy is convenience (being legal and easier to use). As their convenience declines, users who are not averse to piracy will naturally gravitate back towards it.
