#google[x]

[itsmeamyy]

Waymo representing Women & Equality in Tech 🚘 LWT Summit @ The Castro Theatre

Castro Street San Francisco, California 2017

[leadershorizons]

Google X, the company's secret lab, is dedicated to groundbreaking technologies. Some projects have emerged from the labs while others are still under wraps.

The [Google Neural] Network, which was made up of 16,000 processors, was built to "learn" and then think on its own. ~Don Reisinger eWeek {2015}

[leadershorizons]

Little known facts about Google[x] that make it so mysteriously awesome: 5. Secret Projects 4. Public Projects 3. Space Elevators 2. Google X Employees 1. Neural Network Cat Project {2013}

(via https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4i3oKEg6o9g)

[leadershorizons]

"Google calls [big-idea projects] 'moonshots'... the person in charge is called, no joke, 'Captain of Moonshots'."

(via https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QDJ5VvFj1nU)

[leadershorizons]

"While we have very different expertise, we speak a common language in terms of design."

(via https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g_Jx_6a-1YQ)

[leadershorizons]

"We have a process that we call Rapid Evaluation.  So the way we do that is we try to fail quickly... If we can go to a 'no' quickly on an idea, that's almost as good as getting to a 'yes'."

(via https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5oKmb7U3H6U)

[bumsangeee]

living life on the edge

patience is virtue

it was my last week of undergrad instruction ever for me

and i got the job on tues

and the comp package on thurs, which they unfortunately screwed up so they’re re-doing it

hoping for a better news on mon / tues.

regardless, still feeling very unreal and incredibly fortunate.

very excited to see what the future has in store for me.

[sxgoodguys]

Astro Teller, Captain of Moonshots at Google[x], described that facility's work as the intersection between Huge Problem, Radical Solution, and Breakthrough Technology. We've all heard a lot about Google Glass and the self-driving car, but the Google[x] project that interests me most is Loon-- "balloon-powered Internet for everyone." Loon is a system of high-altitude balloons that will create an aerial wireless network to connect rural & remote communities, fill coverage gaps, and get people back online after disasters.

Learning about Google[x] has been, for me, one of SXi's biggest surprises. They are ALL about social good, although they frame it as solving Big Problems (and their reputation is just that they make scarily science fictional ideas into real products). The social good of Loon is closing the digital divide; the social good of the self-driving car is reducing traffic fatalities; the social good of Makani is significantly increasing our use of renewable energy. How could things change if we referred to Google[x] as focused on social good, not just innovation?