Ryan Botha

Once we have completed our review for security vulnerabilities, we will make the entire codebase of 𝕏 open source, with no exceptions. Moreover, we will invite third party reviewers to examine the system that is running to confirm that the open source code is what is running. Trust through total transparency is the only thing that should be believed.

You will increase your sales and close rates more by perfecting what the person consumes before they talk to you than perfecting what you say after.

Friendly reminder that no one gives a shit about the reason you didn’t make it happen.

There’s a chance you get what you want if you move, but zero chance if you stay.

No matter how much I win in the world's eyes, I still feel the best when I win in my wife's eyes. My day is never more "made" than when my wife says she thinks I'm awesome for helping her. I think most guys just want the person we care about most to feel like we helped them.

What happens when you die: They divide up your shit. They summarize your life in 500-1000 words. People who knew you less say sorry to people who knew you more. Everyone eats, drives home, and wakes up the next day and goes to work. Whatever you’re worried about won’t be in those 500 words. You can dare greatly or not at all, but you’re gonna die either way. Might as well squeeze every motherfucking drop out.

The antidote to overwhelm is prioritization, elimination, and consolidation.

What would the person you want to become do with the time you’re spending right now? Do that.

People wildly underestimate how much hard shit you can overcome by just trying much, much, much harder than your competition.

Get rich the hard, slow, but guaranteed way. There are no lines at that counter. If a good outcome is far enough out, humans discount its value to approximately zero. This is why opportunity will always exist for those who can endure.

If you can ruin your life in an instant, you can transform it in one too. The only difference is that the payoff takes longer when you change for the better.

You don't have what you want because you're unwilling to say no to things you want less.

If you don’t care about someone, you probably shouldn’t care about their opinion of you either.

People get slowed down by small decisions more than big work. More speed comes from being decisive than from actually doing work faster.

Sometimes you just need to be unreasonable, take no shit, and refuse any offer besides getting exactly what you want.

>Be Elon >Get bullied so badly as a kid that you end up in the hospital >Escape into books >Read more than 8hrs a day >Teach yourself programming >Sell a video game at 12 >Leave South Africa >Sleep on couches >Work odd jobs >Get into America >Build a startup >Get fired from your own company >Start over >Build another company >Merge it into PayPal >Get removed as CEO >Your company gets acquired >Walk away with nearly $180 million >Instead of retiring at 31, put almost all of it into three impossible ideas: Electric cars, Solar energy, Rockets >People tell you you're insane >Start a rocket company with no aerospace degree >Learn rocket science from textbooks >First rocket fails >Second rocket fails >Third rocket fails >Divorce >Public humiliation >Cash running out >One launch away from bankruptcy >Launch anyway >The fourth rocket reaches orbit >NASA signs a contract >Survive >Tesla is weeks from collapse >Save it at the last minute >Get mocked for wanting reusable rockets. >Land one. >Then another. >Then dozens. >Turn science fiction into engineering >Get mocked for betting on EVs >Turn electric cars into status symbols >Force the entire auto industry to follow >Build the most valuable car company in history >Launch astronauts into orbit >Create a global satellite internet network. >Buy Twitter >Fire most of the staff >Rename it X >Walk into politics >Risk your reputation >Risk your companies >Risk your fortune >Become one of the most polarising people on Earth. >Get attacked by the media, politicians, competitors, and activists >Keep building anyway >Become a TRILLIONAIRE

Grok is maximally truthful

Why I start work before 5am: 1) I wake up ~4am without an alarm normally. 2) My 1st mentor was a gym owner. He wanted to provide for family & be home for them. So he worked 4am to 4pm. I learned from him & it stuck w me. 3) I like it better than later. PS: Do whatever u want.

The thing nobody tells you about exponential change is that it feels like nothing is happening right up until the moment everything happens at once.