Mentorship helps future careers take flight. 🚀 Happy National Mentoring Day! At NASA Johnson, mentors help interns gain hands-on experience, contribute to @NASA missions and programs, and build skills for careers in human spaceflight.

👻 SPOOKY PACK is on the way. A familiar grin steals the spotlight. Bats take flight, pumpkins glow. 🦇✨ Gengar brings its mischievous charm to Halloween. This Friday, let the Halloween revelry begin. Your next treat is waiting to be revealed.

GAMEDAY! The Golden Eagles are ready to take flight against the Salem Hills Skyhawks! Join us at home for an action-packed day of volleyball: JV-3:30p, S-5:00p, V-6:30. Let’s go! #maplemountainsports#

Viva La StriX! The owl is ready to take flight for the ninth time on Electron🦉🚀. Our next mission for @synspective is set to launch from Launch Complex 1 NET May 22. Launch window opens: 🚀 9:30 pm NZST 🚀 09:30 UTC 🚀 6:30 pm JST 🚀 5:30 am EDT 🚀 2:30 am PDT

At @cerebras, we like building the platforms on which other people’s ideas take flight. Yesterday at @TechCrunch Disrupt, I was asked how my grandkids will use AI. I told the room I don’t know. In the late ’90s, I was building some of the first hardware-based switches and routers. A whole community of us were doing it, and between us we made IP networking almost free. None of us knew the result would be WhatsApp or Viber. And that people around the world, even the poorest among us, could talk to and see loved ones far away.  Once moving data was cheap, other people built great things. I am not a builder of consumer products. I have a rule: if my mother buys it or uses it, I don’t want to make it or sell it. I love building infrastructure that makes other people’s ideas take flight. Most of my career has been about making networking faster or compute faster. At Cerebras, we make inference 15 to 30 times faster. And we make it fast so other people’s ideas and products can shine. Thanks to TechCrunch for having me.

This is the America I’m betting on. Last week on Narragansett Bay, I watched a founder’s dream literally take flight. @regentcraft Viceroy seaglider completed its fifth flight in front of 600+ investors, customers, government and defense leaders. We were out on ferries watching these extraordinary machines float, foil and fly. Proud to be an early investor and advisor to REGENT along with @gazi2a. @billythalheimer and this team including our good friend, Adam are world class. There’s something deeply personal about backing a founder early and then standing there as their vision lifts off the water. You’re cheering for the machine, sure. But you’re really cheering for the people who made it possible. What a moment for this crew. What a privilege to witness it. Onwards to production.