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@GeniusGTX The solution is to have 14 kids with 5 women, none of whom are your spouse

Elon Musk says one constraint blocks every Starbase hire: Their partner's job. Brownsville, Texas. Population 187,000. The nearest tech hub: Austin. 350 miles north. Engineers had to relocate everything. Houses sold. Schools researched. Career ladders restarted. "Getting engineers to move… I call it the significant other problem." A spouse with a career. Kids in school. A partner's job market. The technical work was the easy part of recruiting. The recruiting problem started somewhere else. Then Musk explained why Brownsville was a harder sell than Silicon Valley. "For Starbase that was particularly difficult, since the odds of finding a non-SpaceX job… are pretty low." He named the constraint: **the significant other problem**. A name the recruiters used, the engineers admitted, and the partners felt first. Musk, who had moved his own household to Texas for SpaceX, had paid the same tax. And kept Tesla majority in California, where the talent could still spouse-shop. A startup hire at a Silicon Valley campus could promise their spouse a dozen recruiters within driving distance, while a Starbase hire could promise rocketry, palm trees, and almost nothing else by way of secondary employment. "It's quite difficult. It's like a technology monastery thing, remote and mostly dudes." One household. Two careers. One Brownsville. Two careers and one zip code rarely worked out. After Musk named the problem, the recruiting funnel narrowed to the single, retired, and remote-spouse. Musk, on what the technology monastery cost: "Not much of an improvement over SF." What's the constraint on hiring at your company that has nothing to do with the work? P.S. I made a full playbook breaking down the timeless decision-making mental models used by history's greatest thinkers. Comment "models" and follow @GeniusGTX so I can DM you a copy. — Elon Musk ( @elonmusk ), CEO of Tesla and SpaceX, on Dwarkesh Patel's ( @dwarkesh_sp ) podcast

@KerryHale17 Looks great!

Spent the morning knocking together some organization and order in Tiny Shop. And this is the best spring weather I think we’ve ever had. Living in a sea of bright green.

@KerryHale17 I retrofitted a slab top on a bench i built a couple of years ago. Now it has chicken legs 😂

Built a new workbench for my Tiny Shop. Almost no power tools involved in this, and it was an effort. I think it weighs in around 350 pounds. Draw-bored mortise and tenon construction, not a piece of metal anywhere in it. Now back to making actual furniture…

@KerryHale17 Really nice. Anarchists workbench design? What kind of wood?

@KerryHale17 @hradzka My city has 50 smoke shops and I think they must be laundering or doing other kind of visa fraud.

@hradzka One of my favorite things to do is run the numbers for these ridiculous businesses off the dome. Estimated expenses, potential number of customers needed to break even, or to make a profit. It leaves me convinced that a huge percentage of small businesses are money laundering ops

I suspect the wife shop phenomenon (never-mentioned rich spouse subsidizes wife’s small business selling tchotchkes or antiques or what have you) has given a lot of people unrealistic ideas about the level of cash flow necessary to run a small business

@KerryHale17 What tools do you use to do the beading and moulding? Some kind of shaper? Aspiring garage woodworker wants to know

I did an entire house of cabinetry for a remodel a few years ago, and forgot to get any photos of the library and living areas. Needed to show these to someone and fortunately my client was kind enough to send photos. That’s a Murphy bed in the library, btw

@eroyor @Luv_Xcuses Literally no one better!

@Luv_Xcuses Mixing arrogance with ignorance.

Be brutally honest, what's one thing Americans are simply better at than the rest of the world??

“You need people that know something”

@ArthurCDent This tweet deserves more than it’s getting

Shaping up to be a real White Middle-aged Bloke Summer (gardening, some light home renovations)

@RealCandaceO You people are mentally ill

Wait a minute— aren’t Jared Kushner and VP in Islamabad right now? 🚨🚨

@DanielLurie @SFPD @CHPSanFrancisco Nice job! Would have missed the Giants game otherwise.

This kind of reckless behavior—putting drivers, pedestrians, and riders at risk—will not be tolerated. We will continue supporting law our enforcement and use technology to keep San Franciscans safe. Thank you @SFPD and @CHPSanFrancisco for your swift and professional response.

Go to baseball games when it’s sunny out. Revel in the glory of this great land.

@you_effo @benaveryisgood The was robbed

Soldiers, you are being called back for ONE MORE JOB - VOTE 🍋🎉 jokewrldbracket.com

@DevanCosta Rigged!

To your positions everyone! jokewrldbracket.com

@GovernorShapiro Hell yea

The best thing we can do for our kids right now is to just let them be kids. Kids are getting cell phones sooner than any generation before them, screen times are up while real human connection is down, and foundational skills aren’t being taught enough these days. We need to take a step back. It’s why I just signed a bipartisan bill into law, requiring cursive handwriting to once again be taught in PA public schools. It’s also why I’ve called on the legislature to pass a bill requiring schools to both implement a bell-to-bell cell phone ban and guarantee recess for every Pennsylvania student.  Let’s continue our work to set young people on a path to success — and let our kids be kids.

@aussieflya This is like advice for guys who want to be antagonists in 2000s rom coms

There’s only one financial metric for a happy life: Making more money than your wife’s sister’s husband. Nothing else matters.

@ArthurCDent Wait what are shallots if not shallots

I have 2 problems with American cooking videos. (1) ‘cilantro’ fine — but they keep calling onions shallots (2) they say stuff like “then you go in with some wine”. Go in? Speak proper English damn you, stop doing it wrong

@spikedonline Sad

Schools in northern England are set to restrict drawing, dancing and music that Muslims consider ‘idolatrous’: buff.ly/1J42aNo

The first night my newborn went to bed easily and my dog got sprayed by a skunk and tracked the smell inside. God works in mysterious ways

@typesfast Lotta cigarettes

I wonder what the work culture is like at a sanctioned company willing to run the Strait of Hormuz right now. The energy must be electric.