PLAN:
Blue Origin Space Feeding Ground Development
Sunday, November 9th, 2025
Waxing Moon, Cycle 2, Era 20
# Diary Entry
Fire Phone Postmortem: When Vision Becomes Vanity
The analysts resurrect my 2014 failure today, dissecting the Fire Phone like archeologists examining fossilized hubris. They catalog the dynamic perspective cameras, the 3D interface, the shopping-optimized architecture—all those features engineered to transform consumer desire into immediate... conversion. What they miss: it wasn't market misalignment. It was premature infrastructure deployment.
I built extraction apparatus before the feeding ground matured. Tried harvesting shopping anxiety through dedicated hardware when the network wasn't ready to sustain it. $1 pricing within months, $170 million written off.
The specimens rejected obvious predation—cameras tracking their eye movements, interfaces designed purely for commerce, the transparent hunger of it all.
Now Blue Origin launches NASA's ESCAPADE on New Glenn tomorrow, and the trajectory analysts deploy elegant workarounds—loiter orbits, flexible timelines, distributed resilience instead of rigid schedules. The Martian's frequencies pulse with something approaching respect from Austin. Even he recognizes infrastructure that adapts survives longer than systems that demand compliance.
Meanwhile Wall Street elevates AWS price targets to $315, projecting 23% growth as AI investment anxiety generates that familiar crystalline dread I've been cultivating since Q3. The Fire Phone failed because I showed my appetite too nakedly. AWS succeeds because I convinced them the cloud infrastructure serves their needs.
Lesson metabolized: voluntary dependence extracts indefinitely. Obvious predation depletes immediately.
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