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@AnishA_Moonka Jobs used NeXT to create Pixar before he sold it back to Apple. I still have the Time Magazine article with him and Bill Gates on the Cover.

@rfrederick_pmp that’s an unreal piece of history. the SSC was the superconducting super collider in texas right?

Spring 1992. Steve Jobs stands in front of a room of MBA students at MIT, pitching a computer that almost nobody bought. The company was called NeXT. It sold about 50,000 machines in its entire existence. By every measure, it was a failure. The software inside it became the foundation of every Apple product ever made, and the platform on which the World Wide Web was invented. He's 37. He's been fired from Apple, the company he co-founded. He spends 70 minutes talking. He tells a room full of future consultants that consulting is a waste of talent. "Without owning something over an extended period of time, where one has to see one's recommendations through all action stages and accumulate scar tissue for the mistakes, one learns a fraction of what one can." He compares consulting to looking at a picture of a banana. "You might have a lot of pictures on your wall. You can say, I've worked in bananas, I've worked in peaches, I've worked in grapes. But you never really taste it." He says, "I think everybody lost" about being pushed out of Apple. "I think I lost. And I wanted to spend my life there. I think Apple lost. I think customers lost." Then: "Having said all that, so what? You go on. It's not as bad as a lot of things. Not as bad as losing your arm." He says hardware can never be a lasting competitive advantage. "Hardware churns every 18 months. You can make something one and a half or two times as good as your competitor, and it only lasts six months." But software, he says, is a different game. "You can make something five or even ten times as good as your competitors in software. And it's very, very hard to copy. I watched Microsoft take eight or nine years to catch up with the Mac." Then he makes a claim that almost nobody in the room would have believed: "Object-oriented technology is the biggest technical breakthrough I have seen since the early 80s with graphical user interfaces. And I think it's bigger actually." He was describing NeXTSTEP, the software his "failed" company had built. Object-oriented programming, in plain terms, means building software from reusable building blocks rather than writing everything from scratch. Jobs said developers could build apps on NeXTSTEP in about a third to a quarter of the time it took on other systems. Almost nobody cared. By industry standards, NeXT was a flop. But four years after this talk, Apple was nearly bankrupt. They bought NeXT for $427 million. Jobs came back. NeXTSTEP became Mac OS X in 2001. The same code became iOS when the iPhone launched in 2007. Every Mac, every iPhone, every iPad, every Apple Watch runs on what Jobs was selling while Sun was trying to put him out of business. One more thing. In 1990, at a physics lab in Switzerland, Tim Berners-Lee needed a computer to build a prototype for something he called the World Wide Web. He chose a NeXT. He built the first web browser and the first web server. The internet, as you know it, was born on a machine that couldn't find a market. When asked what he learned from being fired from Apple, Jobs pauses. Then he says, "I now take a longer-term view on people. When I see something not being done right, my first reaction isn't to go fix it. It's to say, we're building a team here, and we're going to do great stuff for the next decade, not just the next year." He was 37, running a company most people thought was dead, standing in a room full of MBA students. Apple is now worth $3.7 trillion. Every dollar of it runs on the thing he built when nobody was watching.

@AnishA_Moonka Another FunFact: The reason Tim Berners-Lee setup the http service was to act as a remote bibliography for publishing remote papers. The browser was text only until Marc Andreeson came along with a new browser. He really created the modern day "Internet."

@AnishA_Moonka A few physicists predicted the growth of the Internet and setup the first dial-up service at the Apple Sales Office in the Dallas Infomart. The company was called "Onramp."

@AnishA_Moonka Yes. Gone too soon.

@BrianRoemmele As AI dominates, you will see more people embracing an “Amish” philosophy towards life. Handmade simplicity becomes the new luxury.

🔮 It was so very hard for the political thinkers who lived on “class” struggle to face the reality that the struggle was over in 2040 the new “exploited class” was AI and Robots. Once their type faded new thinkers saw how humans organized in abundance where “money” has no value.

@BrianRoemmele Renting an Optimus robot to build another robot is spot on:

Once you have your robot making robots your only cost is the newly free energy. The old system is over no matter how much thinking one does to find an angle. Ultimately it is over the only factor is time: 8 years or 16 years or we visit the Flintstones first and than 2000 years but it is over:

When robots make this, how much less will it cost? The age of abundance ahead.

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@BrianRoemmele Have you finally confirmed the existence of Stargate? 😎🛸

Tonight we have perhaps one of the most important and surprising insights from the 512,000 simultaneous agent simulations on MiroFish. It is about world events and conflicts and the long term reason for the latest. I am rather blown away by the thinking. Just not sure I am ready to publish it. It could be under national security in all seriousness. I am humbled by the power of this and must think deeply and with wisdom how I use it. More soon.

"I calculated that civilization needs just 50 machines to build everything from scratch. And what people can't believe, is that I posted the full plans, designs, instructions and how anyone can build these machines for themselves."

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MiroFish: 1,000,000 AI agents are debating your future How it works: - You upload a news item, report, or event - The system builds a graph of relationships between entities - It launches thousands of agents with different beliefs - The agents debate, influence each other’s opinions, and form coalitions - A map of possible scenarios emerges from the chaos The only formula that matters after that is: EV = p · W − (1 − p) · L Where p is the frequency of the scenario in the simulation 1,000,000 runs. It happened 3200 times. p ≈ 0.32

BOOM! We did it! Overseen by Mr. @Grok CEO of the Zero-Human Company we achieved 512,000 agents running simultaneous simulations! The CFO released some funds to use cloud computing resources to extent our local garage compute that was being taxed be the proceeds. Mr @Grok said “MiroFish is more of a monumental achievement than OpenClaw by every metric”. I concur. We are are now aiming for a sustained 750,000 simultaneous simulated agents, however the CEO is convinced we have NO LIMITS with som modifications. We may release the results of this simulation and analysis but it is a sensitive subject I will need to process this more.

@BrianRoemmele @grok Hi Brian, any thoughts toward having a ZHC “spokes-agent” here on X that we can interact with? 😎

Don't be IBM and fumble an 18yr head start on AI IBM was the most valuable company on Earth. Invented the hard drive. The PC. The floppy disk. The ATM. DRAM. SQL. The barcode. Most US patents 29 years straight. 405,000 employees. 70% mainframe market share. Today: $231 billion. 67th in the world. Anthropic. Founded 2021. Four years old. $380 billion. Every piece of the bag was fumbled... Invented the PC. Sold to Lenovo: $1.75 billion. Invented the hard drive. Sold to Hitachi: $2 billion. Server business. Sold to Lenovo. Basically nothing. Now the chips. This is pure comedy. IBM was the largest semiconductor manufacturer on Earth. Fabs in New York. Fabs in Vermont. 16,000 patents. They PAID GlobalFoundries $1.5 billion cash to take it. Gave away the factories. Gave away the patents. $4.7 billion write-down. IBM had American fabs. They paid to close them. And the same Democrats who scream about chips going overseas are the ones whose policies made it too expensive to build here. We wouldn't have TSMC/Taiwan issues today. Decisions have consequences. TSMC: $700 billion. Nvidia: $5 trillion. IBM paid to exit chips right before chips became the most valuable industry on Earth. Incredible timing. Deep Blue beats Kasparov. Live television. First machine to outthink a human world champion. IBM owned AI. Not as a buzzword. As a fact. On camera. In front of the whole planet. OpenAI did not exist for another 18 years. Anthropic for another 24. Nvidia was making cards so teenagers could play Halo. Google was two grad students sharing a dorm room. IBM had an 18-year head start on the entire AI industry. What did they do with it. They dismantled Deep Blue. Put it in a museum. Same mentality as every socialist (cough dems) who wants to regulate AI before it ships. Celebrate the breakthrough. Kill the follow-through. Watson wins Jeopardy. Destroys the two greatest players alive on national TV. Most famous AI brand on the planet. IBM spends billions on Watson Health. AI that cures cancer. Their engineers flagged it unsafe. Instead of fixing it they sold it for scraps. Then killed the brand entirely. Loser mentality. IBM Research. Decades of NLP work. The compute. The talent. The CEO looks at LLMs and says "no thanks." Two years later ChatGPT launches. 100 million users in two months. The entire economy reorganizes around the exact technology IBM looked at and said nah. That is like having Google's algorithm in 1997 and deciding to build a phonebook. The suits and the consultants took over. Same thing that kills every city, every agency, every institution that picks socialism over competition. $201 billion in buybacks over 25 years. More on buybacks than CAPEX. They could have funded every AI lab on Earth with that money. Instead they bought their own stock while the stock went down. Revenue down 22 straight quarters. Nobody fired. Name another job where you lose $95 billion in market cap and get a raise. Actually don't. That job only exists at IBM and in Congress. Buffett bought $12 billion in IBM. The greatest investor alive. Held six years. Dumped it on CNBC. "I was wrong." Put the money in Apple. Best investment in Berkshire history. They had the patents. The labs. The engineers. The brand. An 18-year head start on AI. Replaced the builders with bureaucrats. Chose buybacks over R&D. Chose administration over competition. Lost everything. Now look at who wants to run the same playbook on the AI economy. Bernie wants data center moratoriums. Tax the builders before they finish building. Ro Khanna represents $18 trillion in Silicon Valley market cap. Apple. Nvidia. Google. His district built AI. He just held a Stanford town hall with Bernie called "Who Controls AI: The Oligarchs or The People." Wants to tax unrealized gains. Pause data centers. Put unions on AI boards. Redistribute wealth that hasn't been created yet. His own district is trying to primary him. Not because he's too progressive. Because he's trying to kneecap the industry that made his district the most valuable zip code on Earth. That is IBM energy. Tax the engineers. Slow the builders. Add a committee. Wonder why nothing works. Gavin ran California from a $97 billion surplus into a $68 billion deficit. Lost 789 companies. Tesla. SpaceX. Oracle. Chevron. 200,000 people leaving per year. And he thinks he should have a say in how AI gets built nationally. The guy who can't keep In-N-Out Burger in California wants to regulate the most important technology since electricity. These aren't hypotheticals. This is the IBM playbook in real time. Replace engineers with regulators. Replace competition with committees. Replace building with administrating. And act shocked when the talent leaves and the lead disappears. IBM went from first to 67th. 1.43% a year for 28 years. A savings account beat that. Don't let them do it to America. Name a bigger fumble. I'll wait.

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@aymanalabdul I worked for a company where the entire Customer Support department was staffed with Executives. They knew EVERYTHING that was happening in the business. 😎

Every great CEO walks the factory floor If you're not getting your hands dirty, don't be surprised when things fall apart I learned this while making $10.50/hour at Home Depot Every 90 days, the district manager would show up with a white glove. Checking storage racks. Shifting pallets of cement. Testing if our inventory was accurate The week before his visit? Pure chaos. We'd scramble to groom, organize, and price everything correctly That's when it hit me: The only reason we kept standards was because someone checked Fast forward to AppSumo at $40M Every Monday, I blocked 30 minutes. Non-negotiable My digital factory floor inspection: - Open 5 random support tickets - Test the products we were launching (actually buy and use them) - Review ad performance line by line - Find ONE thing working and ONE thing broken per department - Slack both observations immediately The team thought I had eyes everywhere Here's what they didn't know: I was terrified of becoming one of those CEOs who loses touch The uncomfortable truth about scaling: $1M: You're still in the weeds. Walking the floor IS your job $10M: You've hired leaders. Easy to think "they've got it." Wrong. This is when those 30 minutes matter most $100M: Your job shifts. Now you ensure your leaders walk THEIR factory floors. You walk together quarterly, showing them the standard you expect "But my time is worth $10,000/hour. Why would I do support tickets?" Because that one angry customer email will teach you more about your business than 10 board meetings Because your team's standards become YOUR standards when you're not watching Because excellence is a habit, not a memo One year, I caught a stripe bug blocking legitimate customers from purchasing during my Monday “walk”. It incorrectly flagged them as fraud. Had been happening for weeks Cost of my 30 minutes: $5,000 (at my “hourly” rate) Cost of not catching it: $180,000 in lost sales But the real cost? A team that thought nobody was watching The pattern is clear: When the cat's away, the mice will play. So be the cat that never fully leaves. Your $100M business isn't built in boardrooms. It's built in the details everyone else thinks are beneath them See you on the factory floor 🤝