Mathew (MJ) Fuller

Engineering lead · husband · new father · orbital systems builder

/about

Hey, I'm MJ. I build spacecraft power systems at Terran Orbital. Before that, I worked across SpaceX, Rivian, JPL, and other corners of engineering that taught me how systems actually come together when the stakes are real.

Outside of work, I am raising a newborn son, trying to stay intentional about family life, and making room for reading, lifting, running, music production, writing, and building software that feels useful rather than ornamental.

/eras

A short version of the timeline: aerospace, high-stakes hardware, family, and now a more deliberate focus on fewer things done better. See what I'm most focused on right now.

Early years: San Diego / Folsom era

Grew up around San Diego, moved to Folsom, and learned that I am happiest when something gets my brain thinking or my body moving.

College: Aerospace era

Studied aerospace engineering at Cal Poly SLO and got hooked on systems too complex for one person to fully hold in their head.

Early career: High-stakes hardware era

Worked around JPL, SpaceX, Rivian, and Terran Orbital, collecting lessons in propulsion, batteries, spacecraft power, and execution.

Now: Dad / builder era

Raising a son, building useful software, writing more seriously, and trying to design a life that rewards attention instead of noise.

Next: Focus systems era

Fewer priorities, clearer goals, better feedback loops, and a visible map of what I am choosing to improve.

/projects

Current public placeholders: Waypoint and Music Production Atlas. The projects index is where apps, data work, and resource systems will live once they are coherent enough to explain.

/writing

Publication

Field of View

Essays, models, and revision trails focused on markets, systems, engineering, and assumptions.

Recent issues

Danger MinutesIssue 01 · in development

/goals

Goal and habit tracking pulls from Waypoint. Categories default closed; expand one to inspect target, cadence, and historical charts.

Writing

100 Newsletter Subscribers This Year

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Publish 1 Newsletter Issue per Month

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Nutrition

180g protein per day

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Nutrition

80oz water per day

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Exercise

Maintain 180lb Body Weight @ 15% Body Fat

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Exercise

Exercise 30min per day

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Exercise

Run 2hr half marathon

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Exercise

Workout 4x per Week

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Exercise

Minimum one 5mi run per week

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Learning

Read for 20min per day

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Learning

Read one book per month

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Mental Health

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/notes

Notes come from selected Apple Notes folders. Search or hover a category to filter quotes, affirmations, principles, reminders, and reference notes.

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22 matching

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“The greatest wasted resource in the world is good intentions that you don’t articulate”
SourceCyndi GallopThe Prof G Pod
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resilience
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“All of life is a series of daring explorations from a secure base”
SourceDavid Brooks quoting John BowlbyThe Prof G Pod
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“The hard thing to do, and the right thing to do, are almost always the same thing”
SourceOn Purpose with Jay Shetty
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discipline
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“The best measure of your goals is self concordance - how aligned are your goals to yourself interests and motivations?”
SourceOn Purpose with Jay Shetty
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goals
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“Discipline is not the art of saying yes to hard things it’s the art of saying no to easy things. More specifically it’s the art of learning to disappoint the things that don’t matter so you can show up more for the things that do.”
SourceShetty podcast episode 10 wish I knew in my
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discipline
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“Your life isn’t something to “figure out”. Your life is something to build experience upon experience. Treat yourself as an uncarved block and let your curiosity and experiences carve into the block as you live. Don’t prematurely carve your block into a fixed shape based on what you think your life should be or who you think you should be at a given time because you will change and who you are when you’re 3035 4045 is not who you were prior and is shaped by your experiences along the way. Be present and realize that you are an ever evolving being in person that can change and grow based on your curiosities and experiences along the way.”
SourceOn Purpose with Jay Shetty
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parentingmindset
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“Communication advice: What is said isn’t always what is heard”
SourceJefferson FisherOn Purpose
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communicationparenting
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“A strong measure of emotional intelligence is how quick a person gets to asking for a reset”
SourceJefferson FisherOn Purpose
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parentingemotional intelligence

/favorites

Favorites come from Apple Notes and are grouped into reads, listens, websites, finds, and completed books. Each group shows a preview first, then opens for more.