Lucas Abebe
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How @elonmusk fixed Starlink:
“Starlink was a mess. It was 10X too expensive and they were building 1/10 of how many they needed.
Elon’s like I've had it. This is now the bottleneck. I'm fixing this.
He grabs a team of engineers that he trusts and they fly up to Seattle.
They fire the entire Starlink leadership team.
They sit down in a war room and they start running the algorithm.
•What is the first principles of satellite design?
•How simple can we make this thing?
•Why does this exist?
•Why are these two things so far apart?
•Why do we need this much energy?
•Why do we need this manufacturing process?
And over the course of a few months they make a two order of magnitude leap.
These people had never encountered this design before, but just by applying the algorithm and working with maniacal urgency towards this extremely high design bar, they created this product that's now —if it was a standalone business —would be worth tens of billions of dollars [or more].”
David Senra@davidsenra
My conversation with @EricJorgenson, author of The Book of Elon (@elonmusk). 0:00 Book Reveal 0:39 Build Useful Things 2:19 Engineering Talent Edge 4:26 Wired for War 6:47 Tip of the Spear 8:47 Burn the Boats 13:13 Facing Fear 15:16 Origin Story Myths 18:19 Know Business A to Z 22:17 Simplify and Fail Fast 25:35 Reality and Physics 28:18 The Algorithm Begins 30:34 Delete and Simplify 34:25 Starlink War Room 36:52 Repetition as OS 38:18 Step Three Simplify Optimize 38:43 Question Every Requirement 39:13 Tesla Battery Pack Delete 40:43 Repetition Installs Ideas 42:02 Step Four Accelerate 43:26 Design Org for Speed 46:06 Step Five Automate 46:29 Control and Clean Sheet 48:54 Vertical Integration and Costs 50:47 SpaceX Incentives and Mars 57:11 Frontier Unlocks Starlink 1:00:26 Time as True Currency 1:03:58 Speed Triage and Bottlenecks 1:10:11 Internalized Responsibility 1:12:56 Avoid Serialized Dependencies 1:14:31 Aligning the Team 1:15:07 Time Is the Constraint 1:16:00 One Metric Focus 1:18:03 Directional Predictions 1:19:06 We Must Make Stuff 1:25:39 Manufacturing as Moat 1:26:23 Speed and Direct to Customer 1:28:41 SpaceX Feasibility Study 1:33:07 Edge of Sanity Leadership 1:37:10 Bottlenecks and Integration 1:40:01 Design and Simplify 1:45:15 Catch the Rocket 1:48:14 Capitalism and Closing Includes paid partnerships.
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This is true from one point of view and it’s what I was taught, however, now that we know everything is a wave function in quantum mechanics, and the electron wave function never actually goes to zero - electrons are more thought of to be at every place all the time just with different probability so the concept of empty space doesn’t really make sense when matter is thought of not as little particles but little spread out smeared out probability densities.
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99.9999999% of ordinary matter is empty space...
If you could take out all of the space within our atoms, all 7.8 billion of us would fit into a single apple.
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More than 100 core elements found in modern televisions trace back to patents held by one unlikely innovator, a farmer’s son. From the neat rows of an Idaho potato field to the invisible paths of electron beams, Philo Farnsworth transformed a simple observation into a technological breakthrough. At just 14, he imagined scanning images line by line, inspired by the straight furrows he was plowing, an idea that would become the foundation of fully electronic television.
By his early twenties, Farnsworth had built and demonstrated the first working all-electronic TV system, moving beyond earlier mechanical designs.
Today, his work remains embedded in the devices we use daily, a reminder that one insight, rooted in everyday experience, can reshape an entire industry.
Source: Patterson, J. (2014). The Boy Who Invented TV.
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Every security flaw discovered by AI was there before AI, waiting to be discovered either by people or by AI. The world has never been good at securing computer systems; finally with AI we are going to get good.
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And quantum computing is going to work. It's all happening.
Roman Helmet Guy@romanhelmetguy
I don’t know if you guys have fully internalized that America is about to simultaneously invent superintelligence and monopolize outer space.
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@PeterDiamandis Unlike texts, pictures, as perceptual materials, don't need processing into percepts, but can move immediately to conceptual understanding.
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The human brain processes visual information 60,000x faster than text. Humans are visual processors, not text processors. Images hit the brain instantly. Words take work. That's why a single SpaceX launch video communicates more than a thousand-word essay—and why your slide decks hit harder than paragraphs. We're wired for pictures, not prose.
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Isaac Newton’s cannonball thought experiment shows that orbit is continuous freefall. Objects like the International Space Station fall toward Earth but move forward fast enough to keep missing it as the planet curves away—creating orbit.
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🚨 SECRETARY RUBIO: If NATO is just about us defending Europe if they’re attacked, but them denying us basing rights when we need them, then that’s not a very good arrangement.
That’s a hard one to stay engaged in and say this is good for the United States.
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@elonmusk I thought Grok was going to translate and make these available in English?
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Your biology is amazing! You replace ~330 billion cells every single day (1% of your 30 trillion). 1000x the population of the U.S. And each of your 30 trillion cells are running ~5 - 10 billion chemical reactions per second per cell. Impressive.
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@JudicialWatch @TomFitton John Roberts will ensure late ballots continue to be counted.
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“This is the most important Supreme Court election integrity case in a generation,” saidJudicial Watch President @TomFitton. “The pandemic spread of states counting late ballots received after Election Day is a flagrant violation of long-standing federal law that not only encourages voter fraud but also severely undermines public confidence in our elections. The Supreme Court now has a critical opportunity to restore a fundamental guardrail to the election process.”
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NEW: Judicial Watch was at the Supreme Court on Monday fighting for a critical legal determination: Election Day is a day—not five days, not a week, not a month.
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Protecting our nation’s most sensitive information from those who seek to exploit it, while making sure our intelligence professionals have the tools and access they need to do their jobs, is not optional. It is essential to our national security.
Over the past year, we have taken meaningful steps to begin fulfilling that responsibility through the largest IC-wide technology investment and modernization effort in history. President Trump's Intelligence Community is moving faster and more decisively on cybersecurity modernization and investments in IT than ever before, delivering stronger defenses, greater efficiency, and real cost savings for the American people.
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Ordinary fools are all right; you can talk to them, and try to help them out. But pompous fools—guys who are fools and are covering it all over and impressing people as to how wonderful they are with all this hocus pocus—THAT, I CANNOT STAND! An ordinary fool isn’t a faker; an honest fool is all right. But a dishonest fool is terrible!
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"The society that puts equality before freedom will end up with neither. The society that puts freedom before equality will end up with a great measure of both."
—Milton Friedman
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SPACEX: Gwynne Shotwell is on the cover of TIME.
The profile covers her position serving as president and COO, second only to Elon Musk, SpaceX operations including Starlink, and the merger with xAI.
Shotwell oversees 23,000 employees and focuses on ramping up Starship production. There are 18 vehicles in various stages of construction at Starbase, Texas. Theirnprime focus is NASA's Artemis IV lunar landing in 2028.
She aims to build a Moon settlement and manufacturing facility within 10 years (hopefully five), including producing AI satellites on the Moon, and envisions Starship enabling humanity as a multi-planet species.
TIME@TIME
TIME’s new cover: SpaceX is racing to build its most powerful rockets yet with the goal of returning humans to the moon. Gwynne Shotwell is leading the charge alongside Elon Musk. Read it here: time.com/article/2026/0…
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ELON MUSK: "We're starting off with an advanced technology fab here in Austin, and I'd like to thank @GregAbbott_TX and the state of Texas for the support.
So in the advanced technology fab, we will have all of the equipment necessary to make a chip of any kind logical memory, and we will also have all of the equipment necessary to make the masks. So in a single building, we can create a mask, make the chip, test the chip, make another mask, and have an incredibly fast recursive loop for improving the chip design.
To the best of my knowledge, this doesn't exist anywhere in the world. We're really going to push the limit of physics in compute, and we're going to try a bunch of wild and crazy things, which you can do if you've got that fast iteration loop that I can't emphasize enough the importance of being able to make it, to test it and and then make and then change the design, do another one, and have that in a single building."
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🚨 WARNING: Your Brain Might Be Trickin’ You Into Feeling Tired!
Ever notice that avoiding tasks when you’re low on energy makes even simple things feel harder later? Scientists say your brain remembers patterns of avoidance, tricking you into thinking effort is heavy—even when you’re rested. Small challenges now can retrain your brain to make tasks feel easier.
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Ego depletion. (n.d.). In Wikipedia
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