Michael Ryan

Every CIO Aaron Levie talked to is trying to solve the same problem: AI agents are ready but the enterprise isn't wired for them. Legacy systems don't talk to each other. Workflows aren't agent-ready. Change management is a nightmare. The missing piece isn't a better model. It's the substrate layer, the infrastructure that connects every system, governs every agent, and lets non-technical teams build without writing code. We've been building that layer for 18 years. It's called SpiceX. US patent granted 2025. The chat era needed a chatbot. The agent era needs a superhighway.

Andrew Ng (@AndrewYNg) says CEOs privately plan AI-driven growth but tell investors mostly about cost savings. "I've had CEOs tell me they actually have huge ambitions for growth using AI, but when they talk to the stock market, they will talk mostly about cost savings because they don't want to set expectations they can't deliver to." - Andrew Ng, Google Brain co-founder, at the NDTV World Summit 2026

Here’s the full Tesla Roadster unveiling event. 0:15 – Crazy Tesla + SpaceX collab preview
2:25 – Last manually driven Tesla car
2:53 – Taking it way past the limits
3:15 – Countdown & first flight works
5:38 – Flying cars are real
5:41 – Peter Thiel flying cars quote
6:02 – Fan suction system (up to 2G)
6:16 – Downforce & crushing track records
7:08 – Starman appearance
7:52 – Rocket thrusters & full gymnastics
8:52 – Kickflip demo (Tony Hawk approved)
9:32 – Real road car + rocket car future
9:56 – Air tanks, nozzles & specs
10:14 – Rechargeable ultra-high pressure air
10:36 – Car reveal & aerospace design
12:50 – Fan modes 
13:37 – Variable pitch rear wing
13:50 – 0-60 goal under 1 second
14:21 – Acceleration demo
16:22 – 0.81s 0-60 achieved
16:26 – Production car will be even quicker
17:05 – World’s quickest production car
17:28 – Top speed & Snake River Canyon teaser
18:26 – Mach 0.5+ goal
18:52 – First best flying car + last best driver’s car
19:04 – Production starts 2028

FOR THE FIRST TIME IN 50 YEARS, CLEVELAND STREET IS FILLED WITH CONSTANT CONSTRUCTION. FOX 13 Tampa Bay went behind the scenes on the $200 million redevelopment taking shape in downtown Clearwater, where new restaurants, retail and entertainment are part of the vision for Cleveland Street. Among the first new tenants is restaurateur Nick Reader, whose new concept will open inside the restored Telephone Building—a rare opportunity, as he puts it, to bring a restaurant into a historic property that has been carefully renewed while honoring its original character. See @FOX13News's story: fox13news.com/news/church-sc…

My brother posts this every year in the family chat on the 4th. Still hilarious.

In September of 1814, America was once again in trouble. The young republic was only thirty-eight years old. The War of 1812 had gone badly. British troops had marched into Washington, burned the Capitol, set the White House ablaze, and now turned their sights toward Baltimore. If Fort McHenry fell, the harbor would be open, the city would likely follow, and another devastating blow would be dealt to the fragile nation. Amid this uncertainty, a young American lawyer named Francis Scott Key sailed under a flag of truce to the British fleet. He had come to negotiate the release of a friend, a physician the British had captured. He succeeded. The British agreed to free the doctor. But there was a catch. Because Key and his companions had seen too much of the British fleet and learned too much about its plans, they were not allowed to return to shore. Instead, they were detained aboard a ship in the harbor and forced to watch the coming battle from behind enemy lines. On the morning of September 13, the bombardment began. For the next twenty-five hours, British warships unleashed somewhere between 1,500 and 1,800 bombs and rockets upon Fort McHenry. These were the “bombs bursting in air” and the “rockets’ red glare” of the song—not poetic embellishments, but terrible realities. Key stood on the deck through the endless day and the long, terrifying night. Every explosion lit the darkness for a fleeting instant before the smoke swallowed everything again. Somewhere beyond that wall of fire stood the fort. Somewhere beyond it flew an American flag if it still flew at all. He could not see. He could only listen. As long as the guns continued firing, there was reason to hope. The British would not waste ammunition on a fort that had already surrendered. Then, just before dawn… The guns fell silent. For the first time all night, there was only stillness. It was the most frightening sound of all. Had the fort finally fallen? Had the defenders surrendered? Had the flag been torn down in the darkness while no one could see? There was nothing to do but wait. As the first light of September 14 slowly pushed back the smoke, Francis Scott Key strained his eyes toward the distant fort. Then he saw it. Not a British flag. The American flag. Still there. Still flying. That flag was no ordinary banner. Months earlier, the fort’s commander had commissioned a Baltimore flagmaker, Mary Pickersgill, to sew a flag so enormous “that the British would have no difficulty seeing it from a distance.” It measured roughly thirty by forty-two feet, carried fifteen stars and fifteen stripes, and was so large it had to be assembled on the floor of a brewery because no ordinary room could contain it. That was the Star-Spangled Banner. The very flag Key saw through the morning mist. The very flag that still survives today in the Smithsonian. Overcome by what he had witnessed, Key reached into his pocket, pulled out an envelope, and began writing. The words came from a heart that had spent an entire night fearing his country might disappear with the dawn. He first titled the poem Defence of Fort M’Henry. Within days it was printed and circulating throughout the country. Before long, people began singing it to a melody they already knew—an old British tune called “To Anacreon in Heaven,” originally written for a London social club. There is something beautifully ironic in that: America’s most beloved patriotic song borrowed the melody of the very nation it had just survived. It also explains why the anthem is so notoriously difficult to sing. It was never written for ordinary voices gathered in stadiums or school assemblies. The song spread quickly and became one of America’s favorite patriotic hymns, but it would wait more than a century before receiving official recognition. Not until 1931 did Congress declare “The Star-Spangled Banner” the national anthem of the United States.