Starlink is taking over aviation.
The number of airlines announcing deals with Starlink is surging, and the reason is simple: airlines without Starlink now risk losing passengers to competitors offering a much better onboard connectivity experience.
We are already seeing evidence of this on 𝕏, with many passengers saying they are choosing one airline over another specifically because it offers Starlink.
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Cognitive reward shapes in sports and career
Sports are amazing environments to learn. When you play a sport for thousands of hours, you start to see the world through that sport. It is a simple fact—your biological neural network is being conditioned to respond to the behavior incentivized by the rules of the sport.
The funny thing is that most people choose their sports for accidental reasons such as parents, geography, or school programs. People rarely think about how the particular sport you play influences how your brain thinks more generally. Going a step further, playing the right sport may even benefit your career.
My two favorite sports are tennis and soccer. Tennis is one of the best sports for teaching consistency. In tennis, there are hundreds of points in a match, and each point is worth exactly one unit, regardless of whether your opponent made an unforced error or if you constructed the most beautiful point ending with a winner. Tennis is low-variance optimization—you win by reducing unforced errors, playing percentages, and grinding out small advantages. Tennis is also an individual sport, which teaches you to rely on yourself consistently.
Tennis has a similar cognitive reward shape to professions like being a surgeon or a pilot. Surgery and aviation require consistency, self-accountability, and deep focus. And similar to how you can only win one point at a time in tennis no matter how spectacular it was, there is no extra credit for the best appendectomy or the smoothest SFO-JFK flight. Your craft is to provide consistency with very low tolerance for error.
On the other hand, the tennis mindset transfers relatively little to entrepreneurship. Entrepreneurship is a high-variance, team game where failure is tolerated and occasional creativity gets rewarded exponentially. Minimizing unforced errors in tennis is a totally different mindset from deciding whether to make a moonshot business move that will likely fail but could potentially net a billion dollars. Obviously I am not saying that tennis players cannot be great entrepreneurs, but I do think it is a totally different cognitive reward shape.
Being a forward in soccer has a much closer reward shape for entrepreneurship. What a forward in soccer learns is to create many small chances. It is a fact that most of the game, you are not scoring—even if you look at all the times that Mbappe got on the ball in one of his best games, most of those led to nothing! But all that matters is creating enough chances to score once (or a few times) and win the game. If you break down a 90-minute game for a forward, almost all the time is failure or noise, a few minutes will be leverage, and a few seconds will determine the fate of the game. I have not played soccer for thousands of hours, but I can imagine that being a lifetime forward in soccer would teach you to be comfortable with failure and asymmetric returns.
In summary, I am claiming that there can be substantial value when the cognitive reward shape of your sport mirrors that of your career. I’ll admit that I’ve done some cherry-picking for illustration purposes—entrepreneurship also requires consistency and error avoidance; and goalies in soccer have reward shapes that are very different from strikers. But I think the point stands. If sports shape how we perceive risk, effort, and reward, then we should choose them wisely.
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Hundreds of flight cancellations turn a typhoon into a systems test. Reliability does not mean nothing goes wrong; it means airlines communicate earlier, recover faster, and give travelers realistic alternatives. #
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"It is no comparison if you look at the amount of players in China, if you look at the public support for it."
Global visitors share their views on China's fast-growing low-altitude economy at an air mobility expo in Shanghai. #
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One of aviation’s greatest mysteries has finally been solved. Take a first look at this incredible discovery from Air/Sea Heritage Foundation in partnership with Deep Sea Vision and Josh Gates.
Don't miss the new season of #
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In April 1952, Pan Am’s Clipper Endeavor crashed into the Atlantic Ocean just minutes after takeoff. The tragedy will go on to change aviation forever, leading to safety procedures that continue to protect passengers today. Despite decades of searches, the aircraft remained lost beneath the sea.
Now, more than 70 years later, Josh Gates and a team of experts from the Air/Sea Heritage Foundation and Deep Sea Vision have successfully located and identified the long-lost wreck of the Clipper Endeavor.
Follow along with this historic discovery and incredible journey when the new season of #
ExpeditionUnknown# returns later this year on Discovery.
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Boeing $BA is shifting focus from winning airshow orders to fixing its supply chains and executing its massive commercial backlog.
THE MAX PLAN: Management aims to stabilize 737 Max output at 47 aircraft per month before eventually targeting a higher pace of 52 monthly deliveries.
THE DEFENSE BOOST: Defense operations are scaling up fast, with missile seeker targets jumping 30% this year to reach an annual goal of roughly 850 units.
THE OUTLOOK: With a revenue base of $92.18B, resolving backlogs is key to unlocking cash flow. Thanks to robust underlying demand, the Seeking Alpha Quant score rates the stock as a BUY.
Can $BA successfully stabilize its assembly lines and satisfy pent-up global aviation demand?
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Thunder. The New Era of Attack Aviation.
The modern battlefield is a robotic kill zone.
Attack helicopters and their crews face more sophisticated threats than ever before.
In this new era of maneuver warfare, we need eyes for what’s ahead and a shield for what we can’t afford to lose.
Thunder is a Group 5 autonomous attack rotorcraft, equipped with the payload capacity, range and speed required to deliver overwhelming effects to the deepest, most heavily-defended parts of the battlefield.
A first of its kind for attack aviation. A thunderous step forward for maneuver dominance.
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Every person living in a western nation needs to listen to every word of this
Katherine Berbalsingh went to the University of Oxford and is Headmaster at Michaela Community School in London, UK
She PERFECTLY explains the mass indoctrination into the narrative of oppressor and oppressed, and of hating White People
I will write only some of this out because it’s very important, however you should listen to it so you can hear the passion:
“The culture shift comes from what children learn at school and online. Ask any young person what history they learned at school, and they’ll tell you, Hitler. Ask them what else? Slavery. Ask them what else? American civil rights.
In fact, what little they know of history will be all about Black and brown people fighting for equality against the white man, women fighting men for the vote, gay and trans people fighting for various rights. Our young people have been taught that history is simply one long story about various groups struggling under the oppressive dead white man.
— History is taught through an oppressor lens. The triangular slave trade, white men held the power. What about Britain ending the slave trade? More than a quick mention, if at all? Mm, no.
What of the Arab slave trade that lasted 3 times as long as the triangular slave trade? Mm, no.
Okay, so GCSE history in Britain is often taught as migration through time, so the idea that Britain has always been a land of immigrants is embedded in our children’s heads. Most schools would prefer to concentrate learning about the tiny number of Black people who existed in Tudor England over a thorough analysis of England’s break from Rome.
— Not to mention weeks on King Mansa Musa of Mali because he was a Black Muslim. His bearing on British institutions, laws, and faith is nonexistent. And the fact that he is said to have been the richest man in history, thanks in part to his massive slave-owning society, is a detail somehow that teachers rarely ever teach.
But it isn’t just our schools. It’s our general culture too. Take your kids to a museum or an art gallery in any Western country, and you’ll find the same narrative.
As an example, when learning about aviation in London’s Science Museum and the extraordinary feat that is man making massive machines move in the sky, a write-up on the wall explains that women and Black people were historically barred from aviation schools and the military. Similarly, James Watt, the man who invented the steam engine and is considered the founder of the Industrial Revolution, has a write-up on the wall explaining that his early career involved slave trafficking, with a bonus analysis of the whole of Britain’s complicity in the slave trade.
They flatten the entire human story and all of its complexities into the narrative of oppressor and oppressed, leaving young people unable to see the world in any other terms.”
We have to end the mass indoctrination
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