My guest today is the human Swiss Army Knife, Yuk Chi Chan, who has packed more into the last decade than many people do in a lifetime.

Yuk Chi is the founder of Charter Space, the first British space company to graduate from the Techstars Space Accelerator. Before that, he served as an officer in the Singapore army (hmm, so maybe I should have described him as a Singaporean Army Knife) and practiced as a space lawyer (it’s funny how much cooler being a lawyer becomes when you preface it with the word “space”).

Suffice to say, Yuk Chi knows a lot about space. We had a blast discussing how ‘ownership’ of territory really works, why the sector impacts our daily lives FAR more than we think, and the mind-boggling mission of an intrepid robotic space snake.

I hope you enjoy the conversation as much as I did. For the full transcript, episode takeaways, and bucketloads of other goodies designed to make you go, “Hmm, that’s interesting!”, check out our Substack.

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Show Notes:

Yuk Chi Chan: The human Swiss Army Knife
The strangely antiquated tools of the space industry
Military training, problem-solving, and reframing the challenge
The single most important trait in a co-founder
Unlearning, cyclical culture, and robotic space snakes
The labyrinthine world of space insurance
Who owns space?
The angry man on Yuk Chi’s shoulder
Why Yuk Chi measures his life in dog years
Space insurance as Zeno’s Paradox
Why the space industry is WAY more ubiquitous than you think
Yuk Chi as emperor of the world
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Books Mentioned:

Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said; by Philip K. Dick
Ubik; by Philip K. Dick

Yuk Chi Chan — On Rockets, Dog Years & Robotic Space-Snakes (EP.238)

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