Katy Perry, Critical Thinking, and the People Who Actually Show Up

Each year, someone reinvents themselves into something that grabs headlines. Sometimes it’s a new aesthetic. Sometimes it’s a bold career pivot. And sometimes… someone says they’ve gone to space.

Earlier this year, Katy Perry boarded a Blue Origin rocket and spent 11 minutes on a sub-orbital flight just above the Kármán line — the theoretical boundary of…