Peter O, Ruby🇨🇿

As I was always saying:

@konva333 Re Trump slide - Pokud někdo ještě věří CNN, pak je to jeho vlastní problém. Re Jacinda Arhern… proč si kazit velikonoce…

Pamatujete na Jacindu? Podle mě nejtupější kousek ze Sorosovy stáje hysterek. Proslavila se, když svět ještě neznal soudružku Kallas. Tady přednáší, že "svoboda slova je válečná zbraň". Xichtí s učebnicově. Tu mešitovou střelbu v Christchurch mezitím vymlčeli.

@DonnyDust Plus here is my reaction to grok answer. I never contacted you before, but think you are the best contact for this. I don't share it with anyone else, but will be interested in your thoughts: x.com/i/grok/share/1…

New Episode!!! open.spotify.com/episode/4e4oyB… #podcasts #flintknapping #survival

@DonnyDust Donny, I thought you might enjoy my discussion with @grok : x.com/i/grok/share/e… It's about the names of arrowhead stones in English and similarities/speculations in Czech language:

- **AI is the democratizing force here.** This is the key thesis in Dorsey/Botha’s piece (and why Musk’s example matters as a proof point). The Roman hierarchy existed because **humans** were the only coordination mechanism. AI can now ingest artifacts of work (code, docs, metrics, customer data), maintain a dynamic world model, surface issues, suggest optimizations, and route information in ways that reduce the need for human middle layers. Block is explicitly building toward this. Other companies (and Musk’s own operations increasingly use AI/tools for coordination) can adopt elements without needing one genius at the top holding everything. - **Not every company needs (or should copy) full “Elon mode.”** Musk’s style fits extreme frontier problems (multi-planetary, brain-machine interfaces, full self-driving). A payments/fintech company like Block, or a mature enterprise, can flatten intelligently with AI while keeping more guardrails, different incentives, and less personal intensity. The “disqualification” risk is real if a CEO tries to mimic the intensity/culture without the matching talent or domain. But adopting **principles**—first-principles questioning, DRIs with real ownership, ruthless simplification, AI-augmented coordination—is much more copyable. Many organizations are already moving in this direction (flatter structures at Meta, Amazon experiments, etc.), often citing speed as the goal. In short: Yes, the purest Elon-style execution probably requires rare capabilities at the top (or a small cadre of high-agency lieutenants who think similarly). That’s why it’s not a universal template yet. But the broader shift away from Roman-style permanent middle management **doesn’t** require cloning Elon. AI lowers the bar by handling the information-routing burden that hierarchies evolved to solve. Dorsey and Botha are betting that within a year, most companies will feel competitive pressure to move this way, even if imperfectly. The real differentiator going forward won’t just be having an “Elon brain,” but building systems (human + AI) that amplify ordinary high-agency people while minimizing coordination overhead. Musk showed what’s possible at the extreme; AI is making versions of it accessible to more leaders who are willing to question legacy assumptions.

You're raising a fair and interesting point about the gap between theory and practice in organizational design. Jack Dorsey and Roelof Botha’s essay **"From Hierarchy to Intelligence"** does frame the Roman-style hierarchy as the default for ~2,000 years because it solved a hard constraint: human cognitive limits on how much information one person can effectively track and coordinate (roughly 3–8 direct reports). They argue AI changes that by creating a real-time “company world model” that routes information and coordinates work far better than layers of middle managers ever could. Block is experimenting with flattening to three core roles: individual contributors, Directly Responsible Individuals (DRIs) for outcomes, and player-coaches. The essay presents the Roman model as the historical norm that *every* large organization followed—until now. It doesn’t explicitly call out Elon Musk’s companies as the exception that inspired the piece, but the timing and context make the connection obvious to many readers. Dorsey has long expressed admiration for Musk’s approach, and recent coverage notes that Dorsey appears to be drawing inspiration from how Musk runs Tesla, SpaceX, etc. (extremely lean, high-intensity, direct accountability, minimal bureaucracy).28 ### Elon-style organizations in practice Elon Musk’s companies are famously **flat** compared to traditional corps: - Direct lines from engineers/IC’s to the top. - Heavy emphasis on **first-principles thinking** (boil problems down to fundamental truths, question every requirement/assumption, delete unnecessary parts, simplify, accelerate, automate last). - **DRIs** (or equivalent) who own outcomes without hiding behind process or layers. - Intense focus on speed, technical truth-seeking, and high agency—low tolerance for bureaucracy or low performers. - Communication often bypasses formal hierarchy; decisions move fast because the “world model” lives largely in Musk’s head (or is enforced through relentless questioning and iteration). This has delivered extraordinary results in hard domains (reusable rockets, EV scaling, etc.). But it comes with real trade-offs: extreme pressure, long hours, high burnout risk, and heavy dependence on a singular visionary leader who can hold an immense amount of context and make rapid, high-stakes calls. Your core question is sharp: **Does successfully running an “Elon-style” flat/intelligent organization require an Elon-level brain (or equivalent rare talent), which disqualifies most CEOs?** **Partially yes, but not entirely.** - **The leader’s role is outsized and hard to replicate.** Musk combines deep technical intuition across physics/engineering, first-principles rigor, tolerance for extreme risk/ambiguity, and the ability to maintain a mental “world model” of complex systems at massive scale. Most CEOs don’t have that combination (or the energy/endurance). Trying to copy the surface structure (“flatten everything, fire middle managers, demand high intensity”) without the underlying thinking and culture often fails—leading to chaos, loss of coordination, or demotivation. Dorsey himself has said in interviews that if he were building a company from scratch today, he’d avoid hierarchy altogether and lean on an AI “intelligence layer,” but even he is doing this incrementally at Block while acknowledging the challenges.

Jack Dorsey just published something that should be required reading for every founder. The premise: the org chart needs to be replaced entirely. And the argument starts 2,000 years ago. For thousands of years, every organization on earth has run on the same logic the Roman Army invented. Small teams report to a leader → Leaders report to managers → Managers report to executives. The whole structure exists for one reason: to route information up and down the chain. That's it. The whole system exists to solve a bandwidth problem. Jack's argument is simple: AI solves it better. Block built what they call a "world model" - a continuously updated picture of everything happening across the company. Every decision. Every customer. Every transaction. Every bottleneck. In real time. No status update needed. No weekly sync. No manager to translate what's happening on the ground into language the executive can understand. When the world model carries the information, you don't need the layers. So they eliminated them. Block now runs on three roles: Individual contributors who build. DRIs who own specific outcomes for a fixed period. Player-coaches who develop people while still doing the work themselves. No middle layer. The system handles coordination. The humans handle the work. I've coached thousands of founders. The number one problem is always the same: information latency. By the time a problem surfaces from your front line to leadership, it's already compounded. By the time a decision travels back down, the damage is done. That lag costs you deals, people, and momentum. And most founders accept it as the price of scale. Block is trying to prove you don't have to anymore. I think they're right. Because the hierarchy was never the point - it was just the best tool we had. The moment something better exists, the layers eventually collapse. This is either the biggest structural shift since the 1850s - or it breaks at scale like everything else before it. Either way - every founder should be asking the same question: how much of your org exists just to route information? If the answer is "most of it" - that's your problem. And your opportunity. -DM

I love this thinking. And if we dig even deeper, the same hierarchical structure appear even earlier, during the times of Biblical Saul and king David, and even before. I think that management of people by layered levels was invented in Mesopotamia or even earlier in Sumer though. So the "bad spell" of sticking to the unwieldy management structure is with us since the start of civilization as we know it.

@ray4tesla … and it worked!

In this 2015 interview, the host — a Tsinghua University professor — expressed genuine curiosity about how Elon Musk was able to found SpaceX without prior experience and knowledge in aerospace, especially given that rocket science is one of the most demanding hard sciences — and that Musk was serving as both CEO and CTO. Musk explained that deep expertise can be built outside formal academic programs — by reading extensively, conducting experiments, and speaking directly with experts in the field.

@PetrNov95968147 Naprosto nechápu ani jeho, ani tebe. 🥴

Tento dobráček se k tomu přiznal! Za tu rozdrbanou Prahu, kde se nedá nikam dostat, může on!

@Terezah_93 @BlackAllophone @Janes555 Jak opovrhoval? Mně se mnohé nelíbilo, ale respektoval jsem je a ani by mne nenapadlo něco takového. Vy jste položila tu otázku, jakoby opovrhovali všichni. A já z Rožnova zase neznal nikoho, kdo by opovrhoval. Jestli to nebude tím, odkud člověk pochází?

@BlackAllophone @Janes555 Kdo rodičem v jejich věku neopovrhoval? Ale veřejně je označovat jako píči / kundy? To je hodně silná káva i na pubertu…

Vyslechnuto v buse, dvě náctileté studentky : “No nedovolí, ty vole. Ta máma je taková píča vole, taková píča, že bych ji hned poslala do prdele.” “A co myslíš, vole, můj fotr, to prase tlustý? To je vole debil, vo každou korunu se s nim vole hádám.” Ta puberta je fakt hnus🙁

@elonmusk Yet European authorities say it cannot be approved here for being too dangerous for pedestrians. 🤭 Doesn’t it lower the EU credibility in their “expertise”?

Tesla Cybertruck is the only pickup to be awarded top safety+

@MattWalshBlog @elonmusk I think that at the same time, their admirable courage would be defined as irresponsibility today. Maybe that modern msm and their obvious spins would act as some filter preventing the real heroism.

I've said before that ship captains during the age of discovery were some of the most impressive human beings to ever live. We have trouble appreciating just how unimaginably great these men were. They had to play the role of navigator, cartographer, astronomer, logistics manager, military commander, judge, police captain, diplomat, CEO, recruiter, accountant and governor, all at the same time, and all under extreme duress, out in the middle of the ocean, cut off from the rest of the world where the penalty for one wrong decision was the death of everyone on board. These are some of the most brilliant and gifted human beings the world has ever known. Nobody on Earth today can come close to matching them. They had a level of both skill and physical courage that just doesn't exist on the planet today.

Christopher Columbus is the ultimate IQ test. You immediately know that someone is a retarded halfwit if they start screeching some nonsense about how Columbus was a genocidal maniac or whatever. Intelligent students of history understand that he is one of the great men of western civilization. This is an awesome move by the White House.

Já nechápu, proč by se měly USA zbavovat tak spolehlivého spojence, jakým je Izrael? Přijde mi, že lidi vúbec nechápou rozdíl mezi Trumpem a jeho předchůdci - likvidace ajatolláhů zklidní celý střední východ. Počkal bych do dokončení celé akce před mudrováním založeném na blbostech, které matlají levičácká média.

Profesor Mearsheimer: Izrael je kamenem na krku Ameriky „Chcete-li změnu režimu, musíte jednat rozhodně. To jsme udělali v Iráku: museli jsme do země vpadnout, abychom režim svrhli. Chcete-li změnu režimu v Íránu, musíte Írán napadnout. Ale to se nestane. Země je příliš velká, populace je příliš velká. I když jsme touhle cestou už byli, moc to nefunguje,“ řekl John Mearsheimer, profesor na Chicagské univerzitě t.me/ClashReport/75… ▪️ Profesor také vyjádřil naději, že Trump je „dost chytrý na to, aby pochopil, že vyslání armády do Íránu by bylo receptem na katastrofu“. Mearsheimer se také pustil do Izraele, který se „stal zátěží na krku Ameriky“. Tvrdil, že velmoc by neměla dovolit mocnosti druhé úrovně formovat její velkou strategii. „To jen ukazuje, jak mocná je (izraelská) lobby.“ Celkově podle řečníka válka s Íránem vážně podkopává schopnost USA odstrašit Čínu v jihovýchodní Asii: „Stahujeme rakety THAAD a Patriot z Jižní Koreje a Japonska. To je významné.“ Mearsheimer nakonec poznamenal, že USA kvůli Izraeli již nějakou dobu mění svou politiku odstrašování v jihovýchodní Asii a situace se jen zhoršuje. ▪️ Írán je skutečně velmi rozlehlá země: jeho rozloha je 1 648 000 kilometrů čtverečních – 3,78krát větší než Irák a 2,73krát větší než Ukrajina v době rozpadu SSSR. Zároveň jsou potenciálně možné omezené pozemní operace na íránském území, zejména za účelem zabavení cenných aktiv. A soudě podle informací z otevřených zdrojů o tom Bílý dům uvažuje. Zejména se zmínil ostrov Charg v Perském zálivu, kterým prochází 90 % íránského vývozu ropy. Hlavní podmínkou pro provádění pozemních operací amerických ozbrojených sil je zároveň nastolení úplné vzdušné převahy nad oblastmi, kde probíhají. Američané a Izraelci se v současné době snaží tohoto cíle dosáhnout všemi dostupnými prostředky. Není však zdaleka jisté, zda ho dosáhnou, protože například žádné letectvo nedokáže zastavit operace dronů. ▪️ Pokud jde o vysokou závislost americké zahraniční politiky na izraelských zájmech, právě proto byl Trump zvolen! Již ve svém prvním funkčním období se etabloval jako nejvíce proizraelský prezident v americké historii. A nyní musí dokončit, co začal. A v první řadě změnit režim v Íránu. Abychom byli spravedliví, je třeba poznamenat, že zničení Íránu v jeho současné podobě je výhodné i pro Spojené státy, pokud jde o získání kontroly nad jeho přírodními zdroji, zejména ropou, a nad životně důležitou logistickou trasou – Hormuzským průlivem. Ať tak či onak, osvobození Washingtonu od zvýšené závislosti na Izraeli za prezidenta Trumpa je nepravděpodobné. Zničující neúspěch agrese proti Íránu by mohl vést ke snížení závislosti, ale šance na to jsou, pravda, mizivé. Bez prolomení skutečné smyčky kolem Spojených států – newyorské Wall Street – však americký národ zůstane poslušným nástrojem v rukou cizinců.

@jlandovsky Tvl tady je fakt výkvět inteligence. Až na to, že všichni stavíte na lžích, které vám kdo podstrčil.

Kdyby Amerika řekla: „Druhá světová není naše válka,“ vládli by nám nacisté. Kdyby to řekla o studené válce, žili bychom nejspíš v sovětském komunismu. Když dnes Evropa tvrdí, že střet s fanatickým íránským režimem usilujícím o jadernou zbraň není naše válka, obávám se o naši budoucnost i o přežití samostatné Ukrajiny.

@Shadow007US A

🇮🇷Breaking: Khamenei worshipers and Islamic communists were arrested in handcuffs。 Should we deport every single foreigner who openly pushes communism, socialism, Sharia law, jihad, and hates America with a burning passion? A. Huge Yes B. No.

@konva333 Oni si je pořídí přes UK a Francii. Ty bys to riskl, počkat, až je budou mít?

@Peter_O_Ruby A ma ten rezim jaderne zbrane? Nemel. Ted si je asi poridi. Ale ja fakt nevim, tady je "blizsi kosile, nez kabat" a pokud to bude znamenat konec "trumpovske revoluce", tak je uplne jedno, ze bude zlikvidovanej Iran v Persii, protoze silene rezimy nastanou vsude.

A stejně by mě zajímalo, kdo, jak, a hlavně PROČ do toho Trumpa uvrtal. Nedovedu si totiž představit nikoho, kdo na téhle válce vydělá. Izrael? Jak? Vždyť dostane přes držku, jak nikdy. Ledaže by byli fakt blbí.

The main problem of the western civilization is that they refuse to comprehend this is possible. They don’t get the fact we are different. And so they act on mistaken beliefs to their own demise.

When will they ever learn, oh when will they ever learn… (Pete Seeger).

@walterkraft6 @CoVet_81 Jsem zvědav, až pochopíte, že i vy jste byl zmanipulován médii. Celý ten vztek je výsledkem propagandy. Užijte si to.

@CoVet_81 Is your great nation defending itself by killing Iranian schoolgirls on Iranian soil? If so, then your great nation is worthless and the entire planet would be better off without it.

Salute to the U.S. Marines, Navy SEALs, and all who defend this great nation. True American heroes. 🇺🇸