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这次美国访华晚宴坐在马斯克和库克中间C位最亮眼的,是蓝思科技创始人周群飞,从农村打工妹到中国女首富,完全没有任何背景全靠自己白手起家。她出生在湖南的一个小村庄,5岁时母亲去世,父亲也因工伤残疾双目失明,家徒四壁,16岁交不起学费被迫辍学去广东打工,在一家工厂流水线打磨玻璃,白天干活,晚上疯狂自学,考了会计证、电脑操作证等技能证书,就这样过了几年,她拿着靠打工攒的2万块,拉上哥哥姐姐、嫂子姐夫等8个亲戚,在深圳开了一家小作坊,做手表玻璃加工,她一个人修机器、跑销售,就这样又干了4年。
到了2000年后手机行业开始大规模发展,一次偶然的机会她的手表玻璃厂接到了TCL手机屏幕的订单,她看到了手机玻璃市场的巨大潜力,于是迅速成立了蓝思科技,专门负责手机玻璃的生产研发和销售,一开始只做国产手机和山寨机,但是直到有一次想谈下摩托罗拉的订单,但外企的质量要求非常严格,她赌上几乎全部的资源配合摩托罗拉,拿下了全球销售超过1亿台的V3订单,直接把蓝思科技推到了行业领先位置,随后顺利拿下诺基亚、三星等外企。
关键的转折点又一次出现在了2007年,当时乔布斯发布初代iPhone,彻底把手机往全玻璃触屏的方向变革,乔布斯那变态的工艺要求全球都找不到符合的厂商,周群飞敏锐的意识到这又是一个巨大的机会,于是带领团队和苹果工程师联合攻关了3个月,突破关键工艺,成功量产了第一代iPhone玻璃面板,从此拿下苹果长期合同,后续的iPad、MacBook等几乎所有苹果设备全部都交给了蓝思科技,也帮助蓝思科技在触摸玻璃面板领域成为全区最大公司。
这也是为什么她能坐在库克旁边,那为什么马斯克也坐在她旁边呢?
蓝思科技在玻璃面板干到全球第一后,开始往更加多元的智能化设备发展,包括汽车座舱和机器人,其中汽车领域包括车窗、中控等已经拿下了特斯拉、宝马、奔驰、理想等30家车企,机器人领域则主要负责关节、传感器等部件,这些都和马斯克的业务有深度重合。
一个15岁辍学只有初中文凭的女生,从湖南农村出来白手起家成为中国女首富,40年后进入中美会谈,坐在了马斯克和库和中间,这就是周群飞的故事。

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Ken Griffin on the single factor he looks for when hiring at Citadel:
"show me an athlete who did well academically."
"an athlete because they know what it takes to win and they've had to experience loss."
talent is everywhere. what's rare is someone who knows how to lose, recover, and still perform at a high level.
same thing separates profitable traders from everyone else.
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Jensen's answer was the most grounded thing I've heard a CEO say...
Sean the Science Kid asked him on the red carpet how AI can be made safer for human jobs, especially in art and music.
Jensen's answer:
"It is the responsibility of the industry to make sure we build AI in a safe and secure way. Just like the automotive industry built cars in a safe and secure way, airplanes, buildings and roads, electricity, healthcare."
"Don't use science fiction and mysterious stories. It's not going to turn into 'I have no mouth and I must scream.' It is computers. It's software. Go engage AI. Go try ChatGPT."
"Whenever I have something new that I want to learn, the first thing I do is I go to ChatGPT. It's making you and I smarter."
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@realAliciaCryst Humm, FWIW, I still like this little piece of music on the short video.🤷🏻
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I repeat:
The U.S. sent thousands of its 19 years old soldiers to die in Normandy, to free Europe and to end the biggest crime against humanity ever commited - by Europeans.
It was just 81 years ago.
The whole reason, France, Benelux etc. 🇫🇷 exist today is because of this heroism.
My grandparents could grow up in a liberal democracy. Without the U.S. they would be raised at the H*tler Youth.
We Europeans would still be in wars again and again, like 1914, 1866, 1870, 1795 etc.
They brought peace, democracy, liberty and human rights. They invested billions of U.S. Dollars into Europe with the Marshall Fund. They gave us more than we ever had in our history before. They protected us for 7 decades with hundreds of thousands of soldiers against the cruelties of the Soviet Union.
The terror we can see nowadays in Donetsk, would have happened in Bavaria, Bourgogne or the Netherlands in 1950 if there wasn’t the U.S. 🇺🇸
Who do we Europeans think we are to let that nation down, act like bad allies, calling their President names every day on television - and have full confidence we stand better alone. All of instagram is just about, why we’re better than the U.S.
We owe them so much.
We Europeans are most arrogant species on earth. And to cure this we have to face the truth.

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On this day in 1865, Robert E. Lee surrendered to Ulysses S. Grant.
Lee showed up dressed in his best, looking like a dignified gentleman. Grant was covered in mud after riding all morning.
Before anything was signed, the two men spoke about their shared service in the Mexican War -- a reminder that Confederates and Union soldiers were nonetheless countrymen tied by mystic chords of memory.
Grant did not create terms of surrender to humiliate the South. Grant and Lincoln understood that to unify the nation, you could not imprison half of it. Confederates were allowed to keep their sidearms and personal horses.
When Grant learned that Lee's men were quite literally starving after having not eaten for days, he ordered 25,000 rations sent to them immediately. Lee said this would have "a very happy effect" on his men.
When Lee rode away after signing terms of surrender, Union soldiers cheered. Grant forced them to stop, reminding Union soldiers that Confederates were "now our countrymen" and there would be no cheering over their downfall. (In fact, days later when actual ceremonial surrender occurred, Union Gen. Josh Chamberlain reportedly ordered his men to salute passing Confederates as a sign of respect)
Lee also worked diligently to stop Confederates from waging guerrilla warfare, encouraging them to set their arms aside and return home and in peace. He was a titan in his own right.
If the spirit of 1865 had been driven by the urge to shame and punish, the Union would not have lasted. So many people today misunderstand that and as such, they try to rewrite America history.
God Bless America.
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🥀 Robert Stirm, the Vietnam War POW remembered from the iconic “Burst of Joy” reunion photo, has passed away at 92. 🕊️🇺🇸
Stirm was a U.S. Air Force officer who spent years as a prisoner of war in North Vietnam. When he finally came home in 1973, his reunion with his family at Travis Air Force Base became one of the most unforgettable images in American history.
In that powerful moment, his oldest daughter ran toward him with her arms wide open, lifted off the ground in pure emotion — creating the photograph the world would come to know as “Burst of Joy.”
That image became far more than a family reunion frozen in time. It came to represent relief after suffering, hope after heartbreak, and the overwhelming joy of loved ones made whole again after years of fear, pain, and uncertainty. In the middle of a war so often remembered for grief, that single photograph showed something deeply human and unforgettable.
Behind that moment was a man who endured captivity, hardship, and the unknown — and still returned home to the embrace of the family who had never stopped loving him.
🕊️ Rest in peace, Robert Stirm.
#TheVietnamWar #POW #RIP 🕊️

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A MIT professor taught the same lecture every January for 40 years, and every single time it was standing room only.
I watched it at 2am and it completely rewired how I think about communication.
His name was Patrick Winston. The lecture is called "How to Speak."
His opening line hit like a truck: your success in life will be determined largely by your ability to speak, your ability to write, and the quality of your ideas in that order.
Not your GPA. Not your pedigree. Not your IQ. How you speak is what separates people who get heard from people who get ignored.
Here's the framework he drilled into MIT students for four decades.
He said never start with a joke. Start by telling people exactly what they're going to learn. Prime the pump before you pour anything in. He called it the "empowerment promise" give people a reason to stay in their seats within the first 60 seconds.
Then he broke down the 5S rule for making ideas stick: Symbol, Slogan, Surprise, Salient, and Story. Every idea worth remembering hits at least three of these.
The part that floored me was his "near miss" technique. Don't just show what's right show what almost looks right but isn't. That contrast is when the brain actually locks something in permanently.
His final rule before any big talk: end with a contribution, not a summary. Don't recap what you said. Tell people what you gave them that they didn't have before they walked in.
I've used this framework in pitches, interviews, and presentations ever since watching it, and the results are not subtle.
Patrick Winston passed away in 2019, but this lecture is still free on MIT OpenCourseWare. One hour, watched by millions, and it costs absolutely nothing.
The most important class MIT ever put on the internet isn't about code or math. It's about how to make people actually listen to you.

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@stevenfiorillo I feel it’s similar to when Apple introduced the iPhone in ~2007. I was in my late 20s and people were saying that was the top and I missed the upside. If I only knew what I know now.

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Jeff Bezos on the exact moment he realized he would never be a great physicist:
"I wanted to be a theoretical physicist. I went to Princeton. I was a really good student, I got A-pluses on almost everything. I was in the honors physics track, which starts with 100 students and by quantum mechanics it's down to 30."
Then came the homework problem:
"I can't solve this partial differential equation. It's really, really hard. I've been studying with my roommate Joe, who was also really good at math. The two of us worked on this one problem for three hours and got nowhere."
They decided to visit Yasantha, the smartest guy at Princeton:
"He was Sri Lankan. In the Facebook, which was an actual paper book at that time, his name was three lines long. I guess in Sri Lanka when you do something good for the king, they give you an extra syllable on your name. The most humble, wonderful guy."
Jeff continues:
"We show him the problem. He stares at it for a while and says, 'Cosine.' I'm like, 'What do you mean?' He says, 'That's the answer.' I said, 'That's the answer?' He said, 'Yeah, let me show you.' He sits us down, writes out three pages of detailed algebra, everything crosses out, and the answer is cosine."
Jeff asked if he solved it in his head:
"He said, 'No, that would be impossible. Three years ago I solved a very similar problem and I was able to map this problem onto that one. Then it was immediately obvious the answer was cosine.'"
Jeff reflects:
"That was an important moment for me. Because that was the very moment I realized I was never going to be a great theoretical physicist."
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It was an honor to hang out with Jensen Huang, CEO of @nvidia, and do a long-form podcast with him. Really fun & fascinating technical deep-dive conversation on & off the mic. One of the most brilliant & thoughtful human beings I've ever met. NVIDIA is the most valuable company in the world by market cap and is the engine powering the AI revolution.
Podcast probably out tomorrow (Monday) unless I get stuck in too many interesting conversations while running around in SF ;-)
PS: I haven't checked my messages in days. Sorry for slow replies 🙏 Trying to stay deeply focused at in overwhelmingly intense time & barely hanging on. Love you all ❤️

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