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@jstanton617.com

@spannersready.bsky.social You've done it a couple times, and at the risk of arguing with a joke, I think the point of the Cadillac JFK speech isn't the "whee, we're going to the moon", the important part is what's after. "do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard"

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@spannersready.bsky.social

just tickled me to compare it to, going to THE MOON!!!!

@jstanton617.com

Sorry for the coach “get ‘em fired up” speech about F1 engineering 😆

@jstanton617.com

Lol. I get it. And as an American from Boston I’m particularly susceptible to a USA USA USA speech by hometown hero JFK

@jstanton617.com

And in particular "because that goal will serve to organize and measure the best of our energies and skills" Besides motorsport (maybe America's Cup?), there's a dearth of setting impossible engineering goals and having the best minds we have to offer, fired by the fuel of competition, achieve them

@jstanton617.com

Seeing the limits of human intelligence and ingenuity, pushed by the natural need to outpace your rivals, is why I watch F1. And while I'd heard the moon speech before, Cadillac's use of it really clarified that for me