The Expansive Meaning of Creating Jet Engines More Rapidly

Vik Bajaj, the co-CEO of Jeff Bezos’s new venture Prometheus, said something recently in an interview with the New York Times, recently that deserves more attention than it got. Explaining why building something as complex as a jet engine is hard, he said: “You can’t build something like a jet engine with words alone, not even the words of mathematical equations.”