The best investment I made this year was my investment in genuine social connection. I took up Airsoft and spent money on gear to lend to friends who can now join me. I also took a gamble on going out to a disco, taking the bus in the freezing cold and putting myself out there in a way that my programming has long warned me against. I did spent some $80 on several nice drinks, one of which included brine and a pickle garnish (making it technically a snack), necessitating some financing.

For SPCX to ever be profitable it will need to.amake Elon's fever dream of orbital data centres come true. Unfortunately for buyers, it's magical thinking just like the Mars colony we were promised would be operational 6 years ago. The economics make no sense. Earth is full of land, water and energy. Even a small satellite is costly; mass exponentially increases the cost to orbit. A space travel company should understand this, but Musk has been ripping his special bag of rocket fuel too frequently to check whether his fantasies make sense. A satellite cannot cool itself without massive radiators. It cannot power itself without massive solar arrays which are inherently intermittent. It cannot transmit data without added delay and transmission costs. It precludes economic maintenance or