Justin Mikolay 🛰️
@jmikolay
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VP of Government Affairs, Turion Space. xPalantir, nuke subs, 2x founder. Tech, comms, business, creative process
Annapolis, MD
Joined April 2009
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hello, friends full res + proper ratio in reply grabbed from the Masters app launch screen
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while we're on the topic, people are missing the obvious thing about Jensen's shiny new jacket it's self-exemplifying... i.e. the physical object (the jacket) reflects the core message of the presentation and the object that brings it to life (the superchip) specifically,
The most powerful chip in the world. What’s on this wafer has the bandwidth of basically the global internet traffic.
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Listen to “Bridge Over Troubled Water” and spend time in its YouTube comment section All human beings are fundamentally the same Loss and hard times are universal No matter how successful you are https://t.co/522zmigwcd
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“Bridge Over Troubled Water” is the most beautiful song ever recorded And its YouTube comment section? The most universally human corner of the internet A place we should all visit from time to time No trolls. No negativity Just people sharing how the song carried them
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The Year at a Glance (2025) This is the best way to look at a year and think bigger about your time It's called a linear calendar, or a days-aligned calendar Each month presented as a row Days of the week aligned as columns Easy to see the flow of days, weeks & months
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we need AI for action, not just answers I can't get this story out of my head, true or not (because we all know it's happening) Greg has lunch with a 22-year-old Stanford grad. "Smart kid. Perfect resume. Something felt off though." Couldn't remember words. Dependent on AI.
Just had a fascinating lunch with a 22-year-old Stanford grad. Smart kid. Perfect resume. Something felt off though. He kept pausing mid-sentence, searching for words. Not complex words - basic ones. Like his brain was buffering. Finally asked if he was okay. His response
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this is inspired by the design of @jackbutcher and his wonderfully thought-provoking "this is pointless / keep going" image, but in the context of human history our shared, collective experiment rather than just an individual endeavor we're all in this together and
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it's impossible to study progress and not have faith in our potential sometimes we lose sight of that
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we can't imagine the leaps ahead and we should be astonished by how far we've come
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nothing is made from scratch & everything builds on humanity
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“Don’t say it isn’t in the catalogue.” Keep looking, you may find it under another name. Be resourceful, take initiative, and figure things out. Great advice from 127 years ago.
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don't pad things out make your point as simply as possible and combine it w/style, emotion, and delivery these are the essential skills of leaders in every profession especially founders & CEOs
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This is why my wife and I don't talk to each other in December. She went to West Point. I went to Navy. One year, on Army-Navy week, I filled her car with navy blue and gold balloons. This, dear friends, is a classy, harmless prank. Another year, she broke into the
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At Palantir, when we were fighting the defense establishment in the mid 2010s, we commissioned an artist to capture our mission on the walls of our office, which we called Minas Tirith. We worked from the closest commercial office to the U.S. Capitol building. This was a
This is mind-blowing to me as an alumnus of Palantir. Palantir is the largest defense company by market cap with 2 percent of the workforce of the #2 company. This was always the promise: an authentic Silicon Valley software company displacing the big SIs. Few realize the
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This is mind-blowing to me as an alumnus of Palantir. Palantir is the largest defense company by market cap with 2 percent of the workforce of the #2 company. This was always the promise: an authentic Silicon Valley software company displacing the big SIs. Few realize the
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