.@boringcompany let me drive a multi-ton liner truck with a PS5 controller. From The Boring Company control room. Live. What's a liner truck? Prufrock digs the hole. The liner truck is the remote hauler that runs the concrete ring segments into the tunnel so the walls can be built while the machine keeps moving. No driver underground — stick from Bastrop HQ.

Kudos @boringcompany ! In their latest round, they are allowing investors only if they commit to adding value. “If they fail to [add value in tangible ways], The Boring Company has the right to buy back some of their shares, they said.” If you can choose who you take money from, this is an awesome clause to add to your financing documents. Great way to filter out valueless investors. Incentives drive behavior, including among venture investors. There are easy ways to prevent gamification of this by either side.

Playstation CONTROLLER · ERECTOR @boringcompany tour: "I'm using a PlayStation controller to control our erector." "Manually building this segment." Then automation takes over — lift, balance, brace. Gaming hardware → infrastructure.

Prufrock never stops. @boringcompany tour: @Mike__Baier "The machine's always moving forward." "We can control the rate that we suck dirt out." "If we don't suck enough dirt out, we would create a heave. If we suck too much out, we create a sinkhole." Prufrock = continuous TBM. Dirt cut has to equal dirt out — or you heave / cave. Closed-loop tunneling. That's the hard part.

Steve Davis @boringcompany "If you want to build thousands of miles, which we do, and the cost for tunneling is high — it's impossible. If we're in the billions per mile… it's just not even worth speaking about. But if we're like three, four, five million a mile, you can literally build these like epic projects." Billions per mile = don't bother. $3–5 million a mile = you can actually build cities. That's why Series D at ~$23B matters.

@RegaliaRoots @adamatw @boringcompany @VUMChealth @Fly_Nashville @visitmusiccity Here's the flowmap slide for assisting the Boring Company with FiloBot-based self-growing tunnel extensions.