THOUGHT FOR THE DAY:

“Think of your life as a system. Think of yourself as the most important system. Be useful and make yourself more valuable as you go.”

— Scott Adams

BIRTHDAYS:

1502 – Pieter Coecke van Aelst, Flemish artist/painter (also architect and designer)

1755 – Nicolas-Jacques Conté (Conte), French painter and inventor (modern pencil)

1792 – Percy Bysshe Shelley, British Romantic poet

1834 – John Venn, English mathematician (Venn diagrams)

1841 – William Henry Hudson, English-Argentine author, naturalist, and ornithologist (scientist/writer)

MISCELLANEOUS:

21ST CENTURY PROBLEMS. AI is ready to run spacecraft. Is the space industry ready for it? (op-ed)