Excited to start showing some more behind the scenes at Ulysses. We are just keeping it pretty raw and passing a camcorder around the office. We went future hires to have a pretty unvarnished view on what it’s like to work at the ocean company. We hope you enjoy!

Ulysses has achieved a new milestone: the Mako has clocked over 1,000 active hours in the water. The ocean is hard on machines. Salt, pressure, currents, impact, corrosion. Time in the water is where reliability is earned, and lessons are learned. Every hour with Mako has given our team more operating experience, more data, and more opportunities to improve the system. Thank you to all our customers for trusting us to solve problems for them at sea.

Justin is building an incredible company that will let us speak with plants. What a beautiful sci-fi technology. This totally changes agriculture, horticulture and so many areas of plant science. I’m so excited to see what they build.

Another takeaway after three years of building a company is that the returns to just "being a good person", and not acting transactionally, are higher than I expected. There are so many transactional, boring, and at times immoral people in the tech industry that if you act with sustained warmth, authenticity, humor, and integrity, great gifts will be laid before you. White pill.

Most children (and adults) can identify 100+ logos and nearly 0 native plant species This is not healthy for society Native wildlife roots us in our place and we should treat it with such reverence If we do not root ourselves in the land it is very easy to lose our ourselves

.@willob on how Guinness gave us Student’s t-test “I studied math in college, and one of the tests from that is the Student’s t-test. This is how you derive either the standard deviation if you know the mean, or the mean if you know the standard deviation from a small sample, less than 30. This was a problem at Guinness because one of the biggest predeterminants of the quality of a pint of Guinness is the amount of lipids or fats in hops. So, they were having to take up hundreds of hops to see is this a high-quality batch or not? And they were losing a few percent per batch. And that means a lot when you’re in the high-volume, low-margin food-and-beverage industry. So William Sealy Gosset had to publish under a pseudonym. That's why it's called the Student's t-test.”

Will O'Brien of @UlyssesInc on why today's young founders are more Steve Jobs than Jeff Bezos: "The founders look very different, right? It's like the kind of rah-rah, smoking, go to church on Sunday, maybe a bit louder, working typically on hardware rather than software." "It's like a different motivation. There is seemingly more of a kind of a spiritual reason to why people start their businesses." "I often think of there being head and heart type founders, where Jeff Bezos is the canonical head-based founder... 'What would be the best thing to sell on the internet? Oh, books are good because you can move them easily.'" "Steve Jobs being the canonical heart-based founder, the bicycle for the mind, the hippie on acid... And I think this era of founders are way more oriented on the heart-based." "A lot of us were very, I think, impacted by something like COVID. A lot of us are typically in our later 20s now, but were in college or something like that when it happened. It kind of made me feel a little bit cheated." "We were forced to be in the digital world, so we feel cause to impact the physical world... Or maybe we're just more of a product of the times that we're in." @Willob on Cheeky Pint

Ulysses has its own aquarium full of live seagrass, fish, shrimp and other little critters. This aquarium has been built from the ground up to be self-feeding. Each trophic layer feeds the next with seagrass at the base. It’s a beautiful embodiment of our mission of ocean stewardship in action.

Robots. Robots. Robots. Come join Ulysses if you want to be sent internationally with robots to solve very difficult undersea problems. We are deploying robots in Australia, [REDACTED], [REDACTED], SoCal, and NorCal, in just the next few weeks alone.