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I hate these “recalibration” weeks where I have to reset routines, intents and diet back to zero. Headline: Scientists Say They’ve Figured Out a Way to Get to Alpha Centauri in Just 20 Years. Actuality: it’s laser propulsion again, and it currently only works at the microscopic level. Takes me back to the days of Leik Myrabo and his “lightcraft” laser launch system, which didn’t scale up beyond the size of a coaster and got seventy metres up before they fell off the laser or melted. The actual paper coins the term “metajets,” which I like. OPERATIONS: got a 20pp piece out yesterday, so today is clean-up and developmentSTATUS: finally, sleep. 8hr 21m. About to savage my inbox, which is around 130READING: THE WIZARD OF THE KREMLIN, Giuliano da Empoli (UK) (US+)LISTENING: I have a stack of CDs to listen to, but I’m also thinking about adding a playlist to the newsletter, almost as if I didn’t have fucking enough to do MISSION CONTROL: I can be contacted via the Cheng Caplan Company or…