Eric Ingram

Wheelchair rugby is one of the best sports in the world.

You’ve probably never seen it.

That’s not an accident. Adaptive sports don’t get treated like sports. They get treated like inspiration content.

Meanwhile, this is a full-contact, high-speed, tactical game built for spectators.

I’ve been playing for over 20 years. I wrote about how it works, what makes it different, and why more people should be paying attention.

If you care about sports, you should care about this.

https://open.substack.com/pub/ericingram/p/the-best-sport-youve-never-seen?r=3gqeud&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true

United States Wheelchair Rugby Association World Wheelchair Rugby Lakeshore Foundation

I’ll be speaking at SXSW this month about something the space industry still struggles to confront.

Who actually gets to go to space?

For most of history the answer has been a tiny, very specific group of people. But if we are serious about becoming a spacefaring civilization, that has to change.

Accessibility cannot be something we bolt on later. It has to be part of the design from the start.

I’m excited to join Russ Gautier, Michael Hess, and Sheila Xu to talk about what inclusive spaceflight actually looks like and why designing for human diversity will shape the future of space.

If you're at SXSW, come join the conversation.

Zero Gravity, Zero Barriers: Future of Inclusive Spaceflight
JW Marriott | Room 203-204
Monday, March 16 | 11:30 AM CT

I'm also happy to say this panel is supported by the Organization for Space Medicine, Engineering, and Design (OSMED).

What does accessible spaceflight look like to you?

For most of my life, I made decisions based on positioning. Career upside. Optics. Financial leverage. Long-term strategy. The goal was always to put myself in the strongest possible place for what might come next.

Over the last few years, I’ve changed the weighting. I still think about those things, but I’ve started asking a different question when faced with a meaningful choice: when I look back on this, which option will I regret least?

I call it regret-based decision making. It’s not perfect. It doesn’t override responsibility. And it doesn’t magically eliminate uncertainty. But it has fundamentally changed how I approach work, relationships, difficult conversations, and opportunity.

None of us know our timeline. I just don’t want to get to the end wishing I had said more, tried more, or shown up differently.

I wrote about the framework and how it’s shaping my life. If that resonates, the full piece is here:

https://open.substack.com/pub/ericingram/p/regret-based-decision-making-designing?r=3gqeud&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true