Amr Elnahla

Elon Musk: “I couldn't think of anything more exciting, fun, and inspiring for the future than to have a base on Mars" At The Mars Society, August 2012

Completely random… but different 😂

🚨Besties are BACK!🚨 The core four cover: -- Bernie's datacenter moratorium, why should the average American care about the AI race? -- Solutions for fixing AI's negative perception -- China's major EUV breakthrough, what this means for ASML and the AI race -- Inflation, unemployment, jobs, could we see "Golden Age" starting in 2026? -- Are the rest of the Besties moving to Texas!? (0:00) Bestie intros! (0:19) Bernie Sanders calls for AI datacenter moratorium, how to solve the negative perception of AI (17:15) Anti-AI astroturfing: Is the AI sentiment manufactured by special interests? (32:39) Economy: Unemployment, jobs, inflation, are we primed for a "Golden Age" or not? (51:44) Dog Corner! (59:56) China's major AI breakthrough: lithography, impact on the AI race? (1:19:43) Are the rest of the besties moving to Texas?

James Cameron's message to theater techs for 'Avatar: Fire and Ash' 🎞️

🇨🇳 Traveling by train with my daughter. She doesn't like the train meal, so I ordered KFC from the next station directly on the train app. When the train arrived, someone boarded and delivered the food directly to our seats. Logistics on another level! 🔥

James Cameron responds to criticisms about his use of 3D and high frame rate in ‘AVATAR: FIRE AND ASH’ “I think $2.3 billion says you might be wrong on that. Well, that’s the argument from authority. But the argument from artistic is: I happen to like it, and it’s my movie.”

Last quarter I rolled out Microsoft Copilot to 4,000 employees. $30 per seat per month. $1.4 million annually. I called it "digital transformation." The board loved that phrase. They approved it in eleven minutes. No one asked what it would actually do. Including me. I told everyone it would "10x productivity." That's not a real number. But it sounds like one. HR asked how we'd measure the 10x. I said we'd "leverage analytics dashboards." They stopped asking. Three months later I checked the usage reports. 47 people had opened it. 12 had used it more than once. One of them was me. I used it to summarize an email I could have read in 30 seconds. It took 45 seconds. Plus the time it took to fix the hallucinations. But I called it a "pilot success." Success means the pilot didn't visibly fail. The CFO asked about ROI. I showed him a graph. The graph went up and to the right. It measured "AI enablement." I made that metric up. He nodded approvingly. We're "AI-enabled" now. I don't know what that means. But it's in our investor deck. A senior developer asked why we didn't use Claude or ChatGPT. I said we needed "enterprise-grade security." He asked what that meant. I said "compliance." He asked which compliance. I said "all of them." He looked skeptical. I scheduled him for a "career development conversation." He stopped asking questions. Microsoft sent a case study team. They wanted to feature us as a success story. I told them we "saved 40,000 hours." I calculated that number by multiplying employees by a number I made up. They didn't verify it. They never do. Now we're on Microsoft's website. "Global enterprise achieves 40,000 hours of productivity gains with Copilot." The CEO shared it on LinkedIn. He got 3,000 likes. He's never used Copilot. None of the executives have. We have an exemption. "Strategic focus requires minimal digital distraction." I wrote that policy. The licenses renew next month. I'm requesting an expansion. 5,000 more seats. We haven't used the first 4,000. But this time we'll "drive adoption." Adoption means mandatory training. Training means a 45-minute webinar no one watches. But completion will be tracked. Completion is a metric. Metrics go in dashboards. Dashboards go in board presentations. Board presentations get me promoted. I'll be SVP by Q3. I still don't know what Copilot does. But I know what it's for. It's for showing we're "investing in AI." Investment means spending. Spending means commitment. Commitment means we're serious about the future. The future is whatever I say it is. As long as the graph goes up and to the right.

It's fascinating to me how many men hit 40 with a great career, a loving family, a beautiful wife, good health, and still have a desire for more. My guess is that it often comes down to regret over a moment in their 20s or 30s when they had a chance to take a big risk. The opportunity passed, life went on, the desire never disappeared, and they are forever left wondering "what if"