Anduril: The Business of Defense

Isegoria introduces us to Anduril, a defense contractor that moves like a startup. The Peter Thiel backed venture is a software based company making great strides in a traditionally hardware based marketplace. This sentence seemed to sum up the company, "Designing from first principles allows Anduril to create novel defense systems."

Isegoria does a nice synopsis of the company but if you want to learn more I highly recommend this article which delves into the founding of the company, the surprisingly non-competitive nature of current Department of Defense procurement, and Anduril's current product line.

America needs companies like Anduril because the technology growth of our enemy countries can be a bit scary.

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Stuff I found interesting or amusing and thought I'd share.

- Heh Heh

- Very good poker tip.

- And just like that my Sober October was over

- The Art of the Elevator Pitch. A pitch should always be easy to say and easy to remember.

- Steven Pressfield - A Prayer to the Muse

- Photobombing in the 15th Century

- The high tech version of Buster Douglas KOing Mike Tyson? Microsoft win $10 billion DoD cloud contract over Amazon.

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Stuff I found interesting or amusing and thought I'd share.

- Forty ways the world is getting better (to be honest I have mixed feeling about a couple of these like the number of cell phones out numbering the number of people)

- Now for your cheery thought for the day - Mount Vesuvius may have killed people by vaporizing their blood and exploding heads from the inside. "Tragically, those poor people in the waterfront chambers would have died instantly." Tragically? Would it have been less tragic if they weren't killed instantly but had their agony prolonged? Sadist scientists are the worst.

- Big League Chew will have their first package featuring a girl player for sale soon. Heh heh - all I can think is now people who support girls' sports will have to battle those who think pretend chewing tobacco leads to real-life use and cheek and gum cancer. Well played Big League Chew!

-  Well this isn't good - new Pentagon weapons systems easily hacked

- And this is scary as fuck! Driverless cars could become WMD's

- Interesting - independent analyst pegs Tesla stock value at $430 per share

- History will not be kind to the FBI and DOJ on the "Russian Collusion" BS