Raw Material Inventory

Get me back. I don’t care what happens to me.

Please. I want to live again.

I keep making people at Amplifier and elsewhere rewatch this scene.

Note two key moments.

1.

Flight director: That’s the deal?  Engineer: That’s the deal.

Accept the reality of your constraint.

In their case, battery power could not be expanded, whereas companies typically can grow revenue. Know your constraint. Manage capacity; add power.

2.

Astronaut: It’s all in the sequencing, John. If we can skip whatever we don’t absolutely need and turn things on in the right order, maybe.. Engineer: I agree.

I’ve steadily built a list of music videos shot in Austin that feature the town (and not just the inside of one venue). 

“Rock the Casbah” (1981) is a great first entry here.

I learned about Samir Patel from one of the Regulars, who I believe raised money for him.

Here he quotes Charlie Munger:

What you need is a latticework of mental models in your head.  And, with that system, things gradually get to fit together in a way that enhances cognition.The Latticework of Mental Models - Poor Ash's Almanack (by Askeladden Capital)

I will also inventory favorite movie scenes here over time under the tag “favorite scenes.”

Often, the scenes depict useful metaphors.

Sometimes, they’re motivating or affecting or at least just fun or cool.

Some embeds inevitably will eventually fail as studios remove them or whatever. We’ll see.

Spoiler alert -- obviously, if you haven’t yet seen the movie cited and you want to preserve a clean first-time experience, just don’t hit play on the scene.