Danish Hussain ✓

@astrodanish · joined 04 Feb 2018

Head of Surgery Mechanical Engineering @neuralink. Former aerospace engineer and firefighter. Interested in planes, brains, and flames.

12 649Followers

714Following

2 245Posts total

527.6KViews on collected posts

Latest posts

Danish Hussain ✓@astrodanish6 Sep

it feels overwhelmingly strange to live through the biggest transformation in human history since 70,000 years ago, when we developed language and became the dominant species. now we are about to be replaced by a more intelligent, more dominant brain. and all we can do is sit 19.6K views · 404 likes · 29 reposts · 43 replies Open on X →

Danish Hussain ✓@astrodanish6 Sep

someone please give all these silicon valley tech bros a copy of “brave new world” we’re hyperfixated on making life easy and efficient, which is different than making it fulfilling and meaningful. 6.8K views · 160 likes · 9 reposts · 10 replies Open on X →

Danish Hussain ✓@astrodanish5 Sep

see how many spins it takes you to find a life thats better than yours. humbling experience. 11K views · 118 likes · 5 reposts · 5 replies Open on X →

Danish Hussain ✓@astrodanish5 Sep

The real test for self driving is if it can make crash tests entirely obsolete. Even if we never actually delete the seat belt, the crumple zone, and the airbags, this is what engineers should strive for. The safest car is the one that never crashes. Not as crazy as it sounds! 124.9K views · 538 likes · 16 reposts · 49 replies Open on X →

Danish Hussain ✓@astrodanish31 Aug

VERY interesting that Dario thinks the answer to mental optimization is better drugs, rather than addressing the incentivizes for mental problems https://t.co/oOsDAEheaX 25.4K views · 262 likes · 9 reposts · 26 replies Open on X →

Danish Hussain ✓@astrodanish1 Jun 2025

i notice some interview candidates at @neuralink roll their eyes at the massive scale we’re pursuing. when i started at @SpaceX in 2016, our goal was to enable a launch every other day. this was insane to me. we had completed less than 30 successful launches in 14 years, and h 339.8K views · 4.2K likes · 324 reposts · 132 replies Open on X →

Against accounts of the same size

5 posts from the last 90 days, next to the 10K–100K follower range. shown to more people than peers of the same size.

Median views19 588this account924median for 10K–100K

Reach, %154.86%this account3.62%median for 10K–100K

Engagement, %1.20%this account1.52%median for 10K–100K

Metric	This account	Median for 10K–100K	Ratio
Median views per post	19 588	924	21.2×
Reach (views ÷ followers)	154.86%	3.62%	42.8×
Engagement rate	1.20%	1.52%	0.79×

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Growth & engagement

How the posts we collected actually performed: views and reaction rate post by post, what the audience did with them, and where the follower count goes.

Views per post

339.8K1 Jun

25.4K31 Aug

124.9K5 Sep

11K

6.8K6 Sep

19.6K

Last 6 collected posts, oldest on the left. The scale is logarithmic: one post can outrun the rest a hundred times over.

Engagement rate per post

1.37%1 Jun

1.20%31 Aug

0.49%5 Sep

1.16%

2.63%6 Sep

2.47%

Reactions — likes, reposts, replies and quotes — divided by views. Median for 10K–100K accounts is 1.52%.

What the audience does

Likes80.1%5 646 in total

Reposts5.6%392 in total

Replies3.8%265 in total

Quotes1.0%67 in total

Bookmarks9.6%676 in total

Share of every reaction we collected for this account. Replies mean argument, reposts mean endorsement, bookmarks mean the post was worth keeping.

The follower curve appears once this account has two daily snapshots — we take one a day, and this one is on its first.