About

I’m Adam Wuerl and write very occasionally at veridical.net. As it says on the Twitters (@wuerl), I’m an aerospace engineer, Star Wars nerd, PowerPoint hater, and family barista.

I studied aerospace engineering at the University of Washington and then Stanford. During my junior year I was a co-op at NASA Johnson Space Center, left after one term to get married,² then worked at Andrews Space while I finished undergrad. I spent nine years at Lockheed Martin (Sunnyvale, CA then Huntsville, AL), then moved to Seattle where I worked at Spaceflight Industries¹ for five years before starting at Blue Origin.

I’ve worked on launch vehicles (mostly conceptual), satellites (all real), missile defense systems (some of both), and other things I can’t talk about.

The site name has two inspirations: veridical comes up frequently in writings on consciousness, which is one of my favorite topics; it also reminds me of a famous quote from Richard Feynman.³

ve·rid·i·cal
/və’ridikəl/
adjective formal

1. truthful.
2. coinciding with reality.
   “such memories are not necessarily veridical”