How to Engineer a Life You Love - Mark Rober - #1035

I never knew that you worked on the Mars rover for NASA. That's so fucking cool. Well, what's really wild is my name Mark Roberts is only two letters off from Mars Rover if you change the K to an S and the B to a V. And honestly, it was meant to be. It took me like four years working at NASA to realize that.

Just one day I'm like, oh, dang. What did you do? So I'm a mechanical engineer uh by trade. I got my bachelor's and masters in that. And I worked on the rover that's on Mars for like seven years.

So the way it works is they just throw you into the deep end and like I'm I was responsible for a chunk of the rover. And so, you know, I designed what it should look like. I, you know, you test it, you integrate it, you put it together, you have a team of people working with you, they have gray beards, they call them at NASA, who look at your design and tell you all the reasons it sucks. So you go back and change it. This sounds like some uh gandal for the white, like you need to go and pay homage to the dude at the top of the mountain.

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