Index card. The material lives at L1: data/research/moonshots-protocol/ep266-planetlabs/
plus the commentary at data/research/moonshots-protocol/operator-commentary-planetlabs_2026-06.txt.
Show: Moonshots with Peter Diamandis · panel Peter Diamandis · Salim Ismail · Dave Blundin · Alexander Wissner-Gross
| Video | https://youtu.be/kPSLLeccrik |
| Guest | will marshall — co-founder & CEO, Planet Labs |
| Commentary | 9,588 spoken words — instance #1, the tape that found the format |
| Analysis | …/operator-commentary-ANALYSIS.md |
| Story read | STORY VS REACTION |
The five notes
⚠️ Retrospective, and the point of the exercise. This tape predates the cap — it fired ~30 ideas and its own analysis concluded delete 29. It is kept as the teaching specimen: what capture sounds like without a cap. The one survivor is not new — see the ideas register.
Entities cited
- Planet Labs · will marshall
Questions raised
- What sensors does a model need in order to understand the physical world? — asked four times in one tape. Strongest signal in the archive.
Reading rule. Anything marked unverified or on-air is a claim made on the podcast and has not been checked against a primary source yet. It stays marked until it has. Sourced numbers link to where they came from.