Remove Before Flight

• Sometimes you are your biggest obstacle
• Endless justifications
• Giving yourself permission to stay the same
• My self wants to stay the same because it's comfortable
• Our modern lives condition us, more than ever, to seek & expect comfort
• I've been the same weight for around 12 years
• Excluding my internship at Google where I gained 30+ pounds, lost it, & plateaued again
• I promise to tell that story in a future episode
• When I zoom out & think about those 12 years, I'm comfortable weighing 280 pounds
• Which sounds ridiculous to say out loud & publish on the web
• When I zoom in on the day to day I am uncomfortable being overweight
• When I was a kid I was worried I wouldn't be tall enough to ride a rollercoaster
• As an adult I'm worried that I'm too overweight to ride a rollercoaster
• So I have to ask my self, "why are you so comfortable being uncomfortable?" & "why are you protecting that short-term comfort from the long-term comfort?"
• It's nonsensical & this week my self-sabotage came to life in the form of not training jiu jitsu
• So I sat down to meditate, looking deeply into why I made these decisions & to see what I could learn about my self to overcome this form of sabotage in the future
• I have plenty of justifications for why I didn't go to class, like I told you I would
• We shipped a product update early Tuesday morning
• I felt weak after being sick the week before, losing some momentum
• We had a lot of meetings that required me to switch up my schedule & go to class at different times
• So I listened to my inner saboteur, didn't uphold the commitment I made in last week's episode, & I didn't go
• I also temporarily forgot why I'm doing all of this
• It's not to loose 💯 pounds, that's a small part of my bigger reason
• It's because I've committed to accomplishing the goal of going to Space
• If Elon Musk had texted me & said, "we have a ticket for you next week" I would not be able to go
• I'm getting ready now so I can go in the near future & I forgot that

• I’ve been sick this week & haven’t trained any Jiu Jitsu
• Hygiene is critically important in BJJ
• To protect my training partners I sat this week out
• I’m planning a future episode just on Hygiene



• We had a big week
• I saw Ad Astra with my lady & it was pretty good! Maybe that’s its own episode I’ll wait
• SpaceX & Elon Musk’s held the 4th annual update on their mission to colonize the planet Mars at an event at the company's facility in Bolsa Chica, Texas
• Mostly the launch vehicle, spacecraft, & all of the technology needed to get us there
• What was originally called the Mars Colonial Transporter (MCT)
• Then called the Big Falcon Rocket (BFR)
• & what is now called Starship & Super Heavy
• The MCT & BFR were conceptual designs that never left paper & pixels but were critical steps in SpaceX’s iterative design process, that is uncommon in aerospace
• Whereas Starship & Superheavy development is in contrast well underway
• We’re going to start from the bottom of this vehicle & work our way upward
• Starting with a completely new rocket engine that SpaceX calls it’s Raptor Engine
• The Raptor is an absolute beast & has already raised the bar in a...

• Met communications team at NASA Ames Research Center at NAB in Las Vegas
• The team is led by Michele Johnson, director of communications
• She introduced me to Kayvon Sharghi because he was organizing a tour of NASA's Kennedy Space Center in conjunction with Podcast Movement
• Fast fwd to PM & we got to tour KSC!!!
• Saturn V hanger
• Vehicle Assembly Building
• Launch Pad 39 B, tour by the director of the pad
• The Rocket Garden, early Saturn launch vehicles
• Space Shuttle Atlantis
• The growing food in space / botany program
• Growing food on the Moon & Mars
• Got to meet the creators of all the NASA podcasts including Gravity Assist, NASA Explorers Apollo, NASA JPL On a Mission, & Rocket Ranch
• Harry Duran held a panel discussion with the creatives & engineers behind these Podcasts at Podcast Movement the following day
• I also read Dr. Space a biography on Wernher Von Braun by Bob Ward during this trip, which I highly recommend
• Thank You Kayvon & the team at NASA for organizing an amazing tour
• it was a near religious experience for me, thank you
• photos from the tour

• I've been training for nearly 7 months now
• I got my first stripe on my white belt during a white belt seminar at guardian
• Thank You Caleb Khan, my instructor, & all of my training partners at Guardian Gym in Oakland
• Guardian is a non-profit & please consider donating
• Moving to a new location in Oakland near Emeryville that is way bigger
• I did my first water fast for 3 days with very positive results
• I've been consistently intermittent fasting since starting BJJ
• Drinking lots of water
• & Focusing on consistently going 3 times per week

Thank You Again to Michele & Kayvon, NASA KCS, Harry Duran, Caleb & Guardian

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