My life has been a bit of a whirlwind these past few weeks. As always, I found myself missing my regular writing here on Hive and interacting with you all. I haven’t shared much about what we’ve been up to this summer but we’ve been hard at work trying to find a new place to live. After three months of searching and touring dozens of homes we found a beautiful house twenty minutes south of the Twin Cities.
Our new abode will give us quite a bit more room and loads of natural light. I’ll finally have an office to call my own so you should be hearing a lot more from me in a few weeks. It’ll be a welcomed change from the rising crime and noise of the city. As we’ve been packing up our condo these last few days the memories have come flooding back of our time here. We've made some great memories in this little condo but it'll be nice to wipe the slate clean and close this chapter of our lives.
Also, at long last I’ll have a garage to plug in my Tesla. In a bit of divine timing Amazon had the Tesla Wall Connector discounted so I pulled the trigger.
Speaking of Tesla…
Elon Musk has repeatedly said this year that,“The Future Should Look Like the Future”. The Tesla “We, Robot” event on 10/10 introduced a glimpse of exactly that…the company’s focus for the next decade and to a lot of peoples’ surprise it’s not regular cars but fully autonomous ones. I, honestly, think this is a smart move on their part. Although focusing primarily on autonomy is a gamble, if the public accepts it Tesla will easily be a decade ahead of their competitors.
The RoboTaxi and RoboVan are gorgeous vehicles that have something big in common, the lack of driver controls. Tesla’s lead designer Franz von Holzhausen has hit two home runs this time, in my opinion. The CyberCab borrows design cues from both the CyberTruck and Model 3, while the RoboVan draws heavily on Art Deco design, especially from 1930’s locomotives.
Autonomy will reshape our world in surprising ways. One example of this is, eventually, parking lots will be obsolete and can be turned into parks and green space. Thanks to visionaries like Musk and his team of forward thinking engineers the future is going to be incredible.
Fifteen Years
My wife and I celebrated our fifteen year wedding anniversary last week. Time is a curious thing. In some ways it seems like we've lived lifetimes together but yet at the same time these years have gone by in the blink of an eye. As we stood there in the courthouse before the judge on that chilly October afternoon and said “I do” I never could have dreamed of all the exciting twists and turns our lives would take.
If You Listen to One Podcast This Week…
…please make sure it’s this one. In this episode of JRE Calley and Casey Means discuss the root causes of the existential health crisis here in America. It will absolutely blow your mind. It certainly blew mine. After listening to this so much of what ails us here in the US makes sense.
That’s all for now.
Be well and make the most of this day. Thank you for reading!
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