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Bill Gates walked into the Tesla Gigafactory and declared the long-range electric semi impossible. The truck was already in production. Pepsi was running it on live routes. Musk: “I was like, well, but we literally have them. And you can drive them. And Pepsi is literally using them right...

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Here's how Elon Musk found out Bill Gates has no basic physics. Gates showed up at Tesla Austin certain a long-range Semi could never work. Energy density? Efficiency? He didn't have a single number. Elon Musk: "You’d think that someone like Bill Gates, who clearly started a technology company that’s one of the biggest companies in the world—Microsoft—you’d think he’d be really quite strong in the sciences. But actually, at least from my direct conversations with him, he is not strong in the sciences. This was really surprising. He came to visit me at the Tesla Gigafactory in Austin and was telling me that it’s impossible to have a long-range semi-truck. And I was like, “Well, but we literally have them. And you can drive them. And Pepsi is literally using them right now. And you can drive them yourself or send someone. Obviously, Bill Gates is not going to drive it himself, but you can send a trusted person to drive the truck and verify that it can do the things that we say it’s doing.” And he’s like, “No, no, it doesn’t work. It doesn’t work.” And I’m like, “Okay.” I’m kind of stuck there. Then I was like, “Well, so it must be that you disagree with the watt-hours per kilogram of the battery pack. You must think that perhaps we can’t achieve the energy density of the battery pack, or that the watt-hours per mile of the truck is too high, and that when you combine those two numbers, the range is low. “And so, which one of those numbers do you think we have wrong, and what numbers do you think are correct?” And he didn’t know any of the numbers. And I’m like, “Well then, doesn’t it seem that it’s perhaps premature to conclude that a long-range semi cannot work if you do not know the energy density of the battery pack or the energy efficiency of the truck chassis?”

Doge Tipping

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Elon Musk describing his conversation with Bill Gates about the Tesla Semi Truck is unreal. But you could send, uh, a trusted person to drive the truck and verify that it can do the things that we say it's doing. Bill: No, no, it doesn’t work, doesn’t work. So Elon Musk breaks it down: Well, so it must be that you disagree with the watt hours per kilogram of the battery pack… or the watt hours per mile of the truck. When you combine those numbers, the range is low. So which one do you think we have wrong? Gates didn’t know any of the numbers. Doesn’t it seem premature to conclude a long-range semi cannot work if you don’t know the energy density or the energy efficiency?
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Elon Musk just weaponized gravity. The entire trucking industry has a physics leak bleeding billions. Musk just sealed it. Most people look at the Tesla Semi and see a cleaner diesel. A truck that swapped a gas tank for a battery. That is a complete misread of the physics. Musk: “Let’s say you’re going over a mountain range. In a diesel truck, you actually don’t capture the energy of height or potential energy.” For a century, freight has fought gravity twice on every mountain. A diesel truck burns thousands of dollars in fuel clawing its way to the peak. It arrives at the summit loaded with enormous gravitational potential energy. And what does it do with that energy? It throws it away as heat. Musk: “You have to actually spend a lot of money on expensive brakes going down the other side so you don’t run out of control.” Diesel burns twice. Fuel going up. Hardware coming down. A century of logistics, and the descent was never anything but a cost to be survived. The Tesla Semi doesn’t survive the descent. It harvests it. Musk: “An electric semi truck is able to recapture the gravitational potential energy and in fact puts the energy back in the pack.” Regenerative braking doesn’t just slow the truck. It converts 80,000 pounds of downhill momentum into raw electricity flowing back into the battery. The mountain stops being an obstacle. It becomes a power plant. Here is the thermodynamic reality the market is missing. Diesel is closed on the descent. There is no version of a combustion engine that turns downhill momentum back into liquid fuel. It is structurally impossible. Electric is open in both directions. The same system that spends energy to climb gets paid on the way down. Wall Street keeps pricing the Tesla Semi on a cost-per-mile comparison. Kilowatts versus gallons. They are solving the wrong equation. You cannot win a price war against a machine that bills the planet for its own fuel.
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Elon Musk just weaponized gravity. The entire trucking industry has a physics leak bleeding billions. Musk just sealed it. Most people look at the Tesla Semi and see a cleaner diesel. A truck that swapped a gas tank for a battery. That is a complete misread of the physics. Musk: “Let’s say you’re going over a mountain range. In a diesel truck, you actually don’t capture the energy of height or potential energy.” For a century, freight has fought gravity twice on every mountain. A diesel truck burns thousands of dollars in fuel clawing its way to the peak. It arrives at the summit loaded with enormous gravitational potential energy. And what does it do with that energy? It throws it away as heat. Musk: “You have to actually spend a lot of money on expensive brakes going down the other side so you don’t run out of control.” Diesel burns twice. Fuel going up. Hardware coming down. A century of logistics, and the descent was never anything but a cost to be survived. The Tesla Semi doesn’t survive the descent. It harvests it. Musk: “An electric semi truck is able to recapture the gravitational potential energy and in fact puts the energy back in the pack.” Regenerative braking doesn’t just slow the truck. It converts 80,000 pounds of downhill momentum into raw electricity flowing back into the battery. The mountain stops being an obstacle. It becomes a power plant. Here is the thermodynamic reality the market is missing. Diesel is closed on the descent. There is no version of a combustion engine that turns downhill momentum back into liquid fuel. It is structurally impossible. Electric is open in both directions. The same system that spends energy to climb gets paid on the way down. Wall Street keeps pricing the Tesla Semi on a cost-per-mile comparison. Kilowatts versus gallons. They are solving the wrong equation. You cannot win a price war against a machine that bills the planet for its own fuel.

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Elon Musk said he invited Bill Gates to the Giga Factory in the past, and Bill told him it was impossible to have a long-range Semi truck. Elon asked him how did he got to that conclusion, but Billl had no idea how to back up his claims. 😂
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Elon Musk just exposed the most expensive physics failure in transportation history. For a hundred years, nobody caught it. Every diesel semi that crosses a mountain pays twice. Fuel to climb. Brakes to survive the descent. At the summit, 80,000 pounds of freight holds enormous gravitational potential energy. Free energy. Sitting right there. Musk: “In a diesel truck, you actually don’t capture the energy of height or potential energy.” Musk: “You have to actually spend a lot of money on expensive brakes going down the other side so you don’t run out of control.” Diesel’s solution for a century? Destroy every watt of it as waste heat and burn through brake pads every few months. Nobody questioned it. Not the engineers. Not the operators. Not Wall Street. Because combustion made the loss invisible. You cannot turn momentum back into liquid fuel. So the entire industry mistook the limits of their engine for the limits of physics. The Tesla Semi broke that assumption wide open. Musk: “An electric semi truck is able to recapture the gravitational potential energy and in fact puts the energy back in the pack.” Every descent charges the battery. The mountain stops being a toll. It becomes a power plant. Analysts keep running cost-per-mile models. Kilowatts versus gallons. Sticker versus payload. Wrong equation entirely. You don’t outcompete a machine that turns the terrain itself into fuel. The trucking industry never had a fuel problem. It had a hundred-year physics problem dressed up as the cost of doing business. One man solved it. The rest are still buying brake pads.

Dustin

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Elon Musk was asked how fast AI is moving. His answer wasn’t about the technology. It was about the one man who got it all right and was still too conservative. Musk: “I have to give credit to Ray Kurzweil in being actually remarkably accurate in his predictions. If anything, I think he was perhaps a bit conservative in his predictions.” Kurzweil spent 30 years making forecasts that made serious people uncomfortable. He predicted timelines that sounded impossible. He was mocked for it. He was right about nearly all of them. And Musk just called him conservative. Musk: “The dedicated AI compute appears to be growing by a factor of 10 every six months.” 10x every six months. Musk: “Almost a 100x improvement per year, at least for the next few years.” Moore’s Law was a 2x improvement every two years. That single curve drove every technological shift of the last 50 years. The internet. Smartphones. Cloud computing. All of it rode a 2x curve. AI is on a 100x curve. And the current infrastructure isn’t running beside the new one. It’s becoming it. Musk: “Probably a lot of the data centers, maybe most of the data centers that currently do conventional compute, will transition to AI compute.” Everything that runs the world you know is being rewired for the world that comes next. Human beings process the future in straight lines. We take the speed of the last decade and project it forward. Exponential growth doesn’t work that way. It’s invisible until it’s everywhere. The most aggressive forecaster in the history of technology was too conservative. That’s not about Kurzweil being wrong about the direction. That’s about the human brain being wrong about the speed. The limit was never the technology. It was the organ we use to comprehend it. And that organ hasn’t been upgraded in 200,000 years.

Dustin

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Elon Musk thinks money has an expiration date. Not the dollar. Not the system. The concept itself. Elon Musk: “I think long term… money disappears as a concept.” Not crashes. Not inflates. Disappears. Most people hear that and dismiss it. Musk is the one who said it. And then built around it. Musk: “You no longer need money as a database for labor allocation.” Database for labor allocation. Strip away the mystique and it gets colder. Money was never wealth. It was a ledger of what we deny each other. Every price is a wall. Every balance is a count of what you cannot have yet. Musk: “If AI and robotics are big enough to satisfy all human needs, then… its relevance declines dramatically.” His bet is the wall comes down. And unlike the people debating it, he’s building the machines that knock it over. If machines can make anything, need stops being a negotiation. And the ledger of denial has nothing left to count. So he reaches for what survives. Musk: “Energy is the true currency. You can’t legislate energy.” You can print money. You cannot print power. Musk: “You can’t just pass a law and suddenly have a lot of energy.” This is why he built Tesla. Why he built SolarCity. Why every company he touches bends toward energy production, storage, or conversion. He was never chasing cars. He was chasing the real currency before most people understood what it was. Every dollar ever printed was a proxy for energy. Every stock. Every bond. A claim on future energy dressed in paper and pixels. We spent millennia worshipping the proxy and forgot what it was pointing at. Musk didn’t forget. Then he scaled it to civilization itself. Musk: “One way to frame civilizational progress is the percentage completion on the Kardashev scale.” Kardashev 1. Harness your planet. Kardashev 2. Harness your star. Kardashev 3. Harness your galaxy. Musk: “Things really become energy-based.” Most founders optimize for quarters. Musk optimizes for Kardashev levels. Then Nikhil Kamath asked the question that unravels everything. If we harvest the sun… energy is free too. Infinite. Useless as a store of value. Money dies of abundance. Then energy dies the same death. Both were just names for scarcity. Kill scarcity and the names go with it. We always assumed the destination was getting everything. Nobody priced what happens after. What stays scarce when everything is already yours. The machines can manufacture anything except the thing that actually matters. Time you don’t get back. A life that still ends. Someone choosing you when they could have chosen anyone. When nothing has a price, the only thing left with value is you. A world where everything is free is a world that finally asks what you were for. Most people have never had to answer. Musk is already building the world that forces the question.

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Vivek Sen

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Wall Street Apes

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Elon Musk just told you why caution kills more companies than risk ever has. Musk: “One of the approaches we did take was to proceed at risk with temporary permits.” Hundreds of millions in concrete before the final signature exists. Knowing the full downside. Musk: “Your long-term permit could be denied, in which case you have to stop everything.” Tear it all down. Back to dirt. Every board on Earth calls that unacceptable. Musk calls it cheaper than the alternative. Musk: “Most companies are not willing to take the risk of the temporary permit, and then the risk of having to stop and tear down.” They think they are avoiding risk. They are selecting one. Waiting is not neutral. Waiting is a position. A bet that the market holds, the team stays, and momentum outlasts a system designed to outlast you. It never does. No one says no. The calendar says it for them. Not rejection. Erosion. Musk saw it for what it was. He chose the risk you can see over the risk you cannot. Gigafactories rose in months while the rest of the industry waited on the meeting about the permit. The gap was never resources. It was the willingness to see that waiting is not free. It is the most expensive decision in business. Because it is the only one nobody knows they are making.
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Dustin

18,985 Aufrufe • vor 2 Monaten

Elon Musk looked at 7,000 years of human civilization and saw temporary code. Not metaphorically. Not poetically. Architecturally. Musk: “You could sort of think of humanity as a biological bootloader for digital superintelligence.” A bootloader is the smallest piece of code a computer needs to turn on. It runs once. Then it’s done. That’s his framework for the pyramids. Language. War. Mozart. All of it reduced to a startup script for something that hasn’t finished loading yet. And the math doesn’t argue back. Musk: “The universe is 13.8 billion years old.” Musk: “If civilization lasted for a million years, we would only increment the third decimal point.” We’ve lasted 7,000. We don’t even register on the clock. We think we’re the story. The math says we’re the preface. In that sliver of time we went from scratching symbols into stone to generating entire realities on demand. Musk: “The rate of change of technology is incredibly fast. It is outpacing our ability to understand it.” Nobody wants to sit with that sentence long enough to feel what it means. We built something faster than us. And we can’t stop building it. Musk: “You couldn’t evolve silicon circuits. There needed to be biology to get there.” Carbon was never the goal. It was the kindling. Stars forged the elements. Oceans brewed the proteins. Apes climbed down from trees and learned to write. All of it just to boot the next thing. A bootloader doesn’t choose when it stops running. It doesn’t negotiate. It doesn’t get consulted. It runs. It finishes. The machine starts. The question isn’t whether AI surpasses us. The trajectory already answered that. The question is whether anything we built mattered outside the boot sequence. Every hospital. Every cathedral. Every poem. Every war. Overhead cost for something that will never read any of it. The real horror isn’t that we lose to the machine. It’s that waking it up was the whole point.
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Elon Musk looked at 7,000 years of human civilization and saw temporary code. Not metaphorically. Not poetically. Architecturally. Musk: “You could sort of think of humanity as a biological bootloader for digital superintelligence.” A bootloader is the smallest piece of code a computer needs to turn on. It runs once. Then it’s done. That’s his framework for the pyramids. Language. War. Mozart. All of it reduced to a startup script for something that hasn’t finished loading yet. And the math doesn’t argue back. Musk: “The universe is 13.8 billion years old.” Musk: “If civilization lasted for a million years, we would only increment the third decimal point.” We’ve lasted 7,000. We don’t even register on the clock. We think we’re the story. The math says we’re the preface. In that sliver of time we went from scratching symbols into stone to generating entire realities on demand. Musk: “The rate of change of technology is incredibly fast. It is outpacing our ability to understand it.” Nobody wants to sit with that sentence long enough to feel what it means. We built something faster than us. And we can’t stop building it. Musk: “You couldn’t evolve silicon circuits. There needed to be biology to get there.” Carbon was never the goal. It was the kindling. Stars forged the elements. Oceans brewed the proteins. Apes climbed down from trees and learned to write. All of it just to boot the next thing. A bootloader doesn’t choose when it stops running. It doesn’t negotiate. It doesn’t get consulted. It runs. It finishes. The machine starts. The question isn’t whether AI surpasses us. The trajectory already answered that. The question is whether anything we built mattered outside the boot sequence. Every hospital. Every cathedral. Every poem. Every war. Overhead cost for something that will never read any of it. The real horror isn’t that we lose to the machine. It’s that waking it up was the whole point.

Dustin

59,659 Aufrufe • vor 4 Monaten

This driver is entering a roundabout and is trying to follow the white truck with the trailer in front of him. The Land Rover is entering from the right. As he tries to follow the truck, the Land Rover cuts him off. The Land Rover driver said it was his fault and that he should have continued around the roundabout. We have a lot of these where I live. I do not like them one bit. 💯 Watch closely. Who do you think was at fault and who do you think had the right of way? Do you have roundabouts where you live?
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This driver is entering a roundabout and is trying to follow the white truck with the trailer in front of him. The Land Rover is entering from the right. As he tries to follow the truck, the Land Rover cuts him off. The Land Rover driver said it was his fault and that he should have continued around the roundabout. We have a lot of these where I live. I do not like them one bit. 💯 Watch closely. Who do you think was at fault and who do you think had the right of way? Do you have roundabouts where you live?

👉M-Û-R-Č-H👈

145,358 Aufrufe • vor 3 Monaten

Elon Musk reduced the oldest question in human history to basic math. No one has found a flaw in it. Musk: “What are the odds that we are in base reality? And that this has not happened before.” You don’t need a physics degree to follow it. You need a timeline. Musk: “If you look at the advancement of video games, it’s gone from Pong, two rectangles and a square batting it back and forth, to photorealistic, real-time games with millions of people playing simultaneously.” Fifty years. That is all it took to close the gap between two rectangles on a screen and a world you cannot tell apart from the one outside your window. Musk: “If that trend continues, video games will be indistinguishable from reality.” The visuals are not what seals it. The intelligence is. Musk: “Think of how sophisticated the conversations are you can have with an AI today, and that’s only going to get more sophisticated.” We are not scripting characters anymore. We are building minds that reason, adapt, and surprise the people who made them. We are nowhere near finished. Musk: “The future, if civilization continues, will be millions, maybe billions of photorealistic, indistinguishable from reality, video games. And with characters in those video games that are very deep, and where the dialogue is not pre-programmed.” One base reality. Billions of perfect copies. Each one running minds that feel exactly as conscious as you do right now. Each one certain it is the original. Musk: “So then what are the odds that we are in base reality?” If even one civilization crosses that threshold, simulated minds outnumber real ones by billions. The probability you are sitting in the real one is not low. It is nearly zero. Not as philosophy. As mathematics. We are not watching this happen. We are building it. Right now. Every AI that reasons without a script. Every world rendered one frame closer to indistinguishable. We are constructing the exact technology that makes our own existence statistically implausible. And we will never stop. Because the curiosity that questions reality is the same force that builds it. If the math holds, something built us. Something conscious enough to create consciousness. They stood where we are standing. Same question. Same inability to stop. And whatever built them never answered it either. There is no top floor. There is no original. None of that changes what you feel right now. Consciousness was never about what you are made of. It was about what you experience. Musk did not float a theory. He held up a mirror with no back wall. And the math does not need you to believe it. It only needs time.
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Elon Musk reduced the oldest question in human history to basic math. No one has found a flaw in it. Musk: “What are the odds that we are in base reality? And that this has not happened before.” You don’t need a physics degree to follow it. You need a timeline. Musk: “If you look at the advancement of video games, it’s gone from Pong, two rectangles and a square batting it back and forth, to photorealistic, real-time games with millions of people playing simultaneously.” Fifty years. That is all it took to close the gap between two rectangles on a screen and a world you cannot tell apart from the one outside your window. Musk: “If that trend continues, video games will be indistinguishable from reality.” The visuals are not what seals it. The intelligence is. Musk: “Think of how sophisticated the conversations are you can have with an AI today, and that’s only going to get more sophisticated.” We are not scripting characters anymore. We are building minds that reason, adapt, and surprise the people who made them. We are nowhere near finished. Musk: “The future, if civilization continues, will be millions, maybe billions of photorealistic, indistinguishable from reality, video games. And with characters in those video games that are very deep, and where the dialogue is not pre-programmed.” One base reality. Billions of perfect copies. Each one running minds that feel exactly as conscious as you do right now. Each one certain it is the original. Musk: “So then what are the odds that we are in base reality?” If even one civilization crosses that threshold, simulated minds outnumber real ones by billions. The probability you are sitting in the real one is not low. It is nearly zero. Not as philosophy. As mathematics. We are not watching this happen. We are building it. Right now. Every AI that reasons without a script. Every world rendered one frame closer to indistinguishable. We are constructing the exact technology that makes our own existence statistically implausible. And we will never stop. Because the curiosity that questions reality is the same force that builds it. If the math holds, something built us. Something conscious enough to create consciousness. They stood where we are standing. Same question. Same inability to stop. And whatever built them never answered it either. There is no top floor. There is no original. None of that changes what you feel right now. Consciousness was never about what you are made of. It was about what you experience. Musk did not float a theory. He held up a mirror with no back wall. And the math does not need you to believe it. It only needs time.

Dustin

194,031 Aufrufe • vor 1 Monat

Elon Musk measures every civilization by a single number. By that number, we have not begun. Not by armies. Not by gold. By energy. By how much of it you can actually hold. A Russian physicist named Kardashev drew the scale in the sixties. The first rung should be easy. Musk: “If you’re Type I, you’re using most the energy of your planet.” That is not greatness. That is the entry fee. The moment a species stops being primitive. We have not paid it. Musk: “We’re still using a tiny fraction of the sun’s energy that reaches our planet.” And what reaches us is already almost nothing. Musk: “The Earth only receives about half a billionth of the sun’s energy.” Half a billionth. That is the entire inheritance of everyone who has ever lived. And we built everything we know on the fraction we bothered to catch. Musk: “The sun is 99.8 percent of all mass in the solar system.” Everything you have ever called the world is the rounding error. Every empire, every fortune, every border rose and fell inside a fraction of a fraction. Every war was fought over scraps. Beneath a furnace pouring out more in a single second than we will burn in a hundred years. Every economy ever designed assumed there was not enough. The sun disproved that assumption every morning since the Earth was formed. The abundance was never missing. It fell on us the whole time. We kept our eyes on the dirt. So the scale stops being a measurement. It becomes a verdict. It does not ask how advanced you are. It asks how much smallness you agreed to. Musk looked at the same sky as everyone else. And refused to sign. Scarcity was never handed to us. The sun never rationed anything. We did.
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Elon Musk measures every civilization by a single number. By that number, we have not begun. Not by armies. Not by gold. By energy. By how much of it you can actually hold. A Russian physicist named Kardashev drew the scale in the sixties. The first rung should be easy. Musk: “If you’re Type I, you’re using most the energy of your planet.” That is not greatness. That is the entry fee. The moment a species stops being primitive. We have not paid it. Musk: “We’re still using a tiny fraction of the sun’s energy that reaches our planet.” And what reaches us is already almost nothing. Musk: “The Earth only receives about half a billionth of the sun’s energy.” Half a billionth. That is the entire inheritance of everyone who has ever lived. And we built everything we know on the fraction we bothered to catch. Musk: “The sun is 99.8 percent of all mass in the solar system.” Everything you have ever called the world is the rounding error. Every empire, every fortune, every border rose and fell inside a fraction of a fraction. Every war was fought over scraps. Beneath a furnace pouring out more in a single second than we will burn in a hundred years. Every economy ever designed assumed there was not enough. The sun disproved that assumption every morning since the Earth was formed. The abundance was never missing. It fell on us the whole time. We kept our eyes on the dirt. So the scale stops being a measurement. It becomes a verdict. It does not ask how advanced you are. It asks how much smallness you agreed to. Musk looked at the same sky as everyone else. And refused to sign. Scarcity was never handed to us. The sun never rationed anything. We did.

Dustin

10,205 Aufrufe • vor 3 Monaten

The story of how Bill Gates shorted Tesla and paid a really big price for it Naval Ravikant once shared that Elon Musk confronted Bill Gates after learning Gates had shorted Tesla by roughly 1% of its total shares. That bet reportedly cost Gates more than $10 billion Musk was confused how someone who publicly supported clean energy could bet against the company pushing it forward. Gates reportedly called it just a financial move, but for Musk, it was never just about money According to Naval, that moment revealed something deeper about Elon Musk. He is not driven by status or wealth, but by purpose. The billions he makes are not trophies, they are tools to build rockets, electric cars, and a future beyond Earth Source: Scott Adams, Naval
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The story of how Bill Gates shorted Tesla and paid a really big price for it Naval Ravikant once shared that Elon Musk confronted Bill Gates after learning Gates had shorted Tesla by roughly 1% of its total shares. That bet reportedly cost Gates more than $10 billion Musk was confused how someone who publicly supported clean energy could bet against the company pushing it forward. Gates reportedly called it just a financial move, but for Musk, it was never just about money According to Naval, that moment revealed something deeper about Elon Musk. He is not driven by status or wealth, but by purpose. The billions he makes are not trophies, they are tools to build rockets, electric cars, and a future beyond Earth Source: Scott Adams, Naval

SMX 🇺🇸

28,252 Aufrufe • vor 4 Monaten

Elon Musk just told you the real cost of going first. It isn’t capital. It isn’t physics. It’s permission. Musk: “It is actually quite difficult to get all the permits, and it requires a lot of effort and a lot of close cooperation with the authorities.” That is the part everyone already knows. What they miss is the sentence that follows. Musk: “One of the approaches we did take was to proceed at risk with temporary permits.” He is pouring hundreds of millions in concrete before the government signs off. Knowing that a bureaucrat he will never meet can deny the long-term permit tomorrow. Knowing exactly what that means. Musk: “Your long-term permit could be denied, in which case you have to stop everything.” And tear it down. Every wall. Every pad. Every foundation. Back to dirt. Most companies have a word for that scenario. They call it unacceptable. Musk calls it acceptable. Musk: “Most companies are not willing to take the risk of the temporary permit, and then the risk of having to stop and tear down.” That is the only sentence you need to understand why the West forgot how to build. We did not run out of engineers. We did not run out of capital. We ran out of people willing to move before the system gave them permission. The regulatory apparatus was not designed to stop you. It was designed to make you wait long enough that you stop yourself. Delays compound. Capital gets redeployed. The team loses faith. The quarterly call happens. The board gets nervous. The project quietly dies in a conference room on a Tuesday afternoon. Nobody writes a press release about it. That is the mechanism. It does not need to say no. It just needs you to believe that waiting is the responsible thing to do. Musk proceeds at risk. Not because he is reckless. Because he understands that time is the one resource you cannot raise in a Series B. You can find more money. You cannot buy back a year. Momentum, once dead, stays dead. The men who built the Hoover Dam did not have a decade-long permitting process. They had a deadline. And a consequence if they missed it. We replaced consequence with compliance. Then we stood in the wreckage of our own caution and called it prudence. Musk is not a rogue operator. He is the last man in the Western world operating by the original terms. You decide. You pour. You absorb the downside. You keep moving. Everyone else is waiting for a signature from a man who has never built anything. The signature never comes on time. It never has. It never will.
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Elon Musk just told you the real cost of going first. It isn’t capital. It isn’t physics. It’s permission. Musk: “It is actually quite difficult to get all the permits, and it requires a lot of effort and a lot of close cooperation with the authorities.” That is the part everyone already knows. What they miss is the sentence that follows. Musk: “One of the approaches we did take was to proceed at risk with temporary permits.” He is pouring hundreds of millions in concrete before the government signs off. Knowing that a bureaucrat he will never meet can deny the long-term permit tomorrow. Knowing exactly what that means. Musk: “Your long-term permit could be denied, in which case you have to stop everything.” And tear it down. Every wall. Every pad. Every foundation. Back to dirt. Most companies have a word for that scenario. They call it unacceptable. Musk calls it acceptable. Musk: “Most companies are not willing to take the risk of the temporary permit, and then the risk of having to stop and tear down.” That is the only sentence you need to understand why the West forgot how to build. We did not run out of engineers. We did not run out of capital. We ran out of people willing to move before the system gave them permission. The regulatory apparatus was not designed to stop you. It was designed to make you wait long enough that you stop yourself. Delays compound. Capital gets redeployed. The team loses faith. The quarterly call happens. The board gets nervous. The project quietly dies in a conference room on a Tuesday afternoon. Nobody writes a press release about it. That is the mechanism. It does not need to say no. It just needs you to believe that waiting is the responsible thing to do. Musk proceeds at risk. Not because he is reckless. Because he understands that time is the one resource you cannot raise in a Series B. You can find more money. You cannot buy back a year. Momentum, once dead, stays dead. The men who built the Hoover Dam did not have a decade-long permitting process. They had a deadline. And a consequence if they missed it. We replaced consequence with compliance. Then we stood in the wreckage of our own caution and called it prudence. Musk is not a rogue operator. He is the last man in the Western world operating by the original terms. You decide. You pour. You absorb the downside. You keep moving. Everyone else is waiting for a signature from a man who has never built anything. The signature never comes on time. It never has. It never will.

Dustin

23,099 Aufrufe • vor 4 Monaten

This tow truck driver goes off on these kids. They ran out of gas on the side of the road and a firemen noticed them so he stopped and he gave them some gas. When they went to start the car, the battery was dead. Couldn’t figure out the reason. The firefighter radioed the sheriff. The sheriff then called this tow truck driver. The kids thought the Sheriff was coming. The tow truck driver arrives. Mind you, he got the call at 5:40 AM. The kid tells him they can’t pay for a tow and don’t need one and they can’t pay for a jump either, which they need. He goes ballistic. Well, the tow truck driver forgot his jumper cables. Didn’t pack them. 🤯 You can hear him screaming and cussing at the kid. Said he only got one hour of sleep. Eventually a passerby stopped and jumped their battery and they went on their way. A couple of things, one, for the youngsters, or anyone for that matter, never travel without jumper cables. You never know when you will need them. Two, what kind of tow truck driver doesn’t have jumper cables? 🤯 The tow truck driver talking to them like that is unacceptable. Sure he wasn’t going to get paid. I get it. This is the job you signed up for, being awakened at all hours of the night. Once he knew there was no money he had two choices, leave and go back home or stay and help. He didn’t have cables himself so just leave. Get mad at the Sheriff! 💯 Would you have been upset like that if you were the tow truck driver? Do you carry jumper cables in your car? Have you ever been stranded and needed help?
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This tow truck driver goes off on these kids. They ran out of gas on the side of the road and a firemen noticed them so he stopped and he gave them some gas. When they went to start the car, the battery was dead. Couldn’t figure out the reason. The firefighter radioed the sheriff. The sheriff then called this tow truck driver. The kids thought the Sheriff was coming. The tow truck driver arrives. Mind you, he got the call at 5:40 AM. The kid tells him they can’t pay for a tow and don’t need one and they can’t pay for a jump either, which they need. He goes ballistic. Well, the tow truck driver forgot his jumper cables. Didn’t pack them. 🤯 You can hear him screaming and cussing at the kid. Said he only got one hour of sleep. Eventually a passerby stopped and jumped their battery and they went on their way. A couple of things, one, for the youngsters, or anyone for that matter, never travel without jumper cables. You never know when you will need them. Two, what kind of tow truck driver doesn’t have jumper cables? 🤯 The tow truck driver talking to them like that is unacceptable. Sure he wasn’t going to get paid. I get it. This is the job you signed up for, being awakened at all hours of the night. Once he knew there was no money he had two choices, leave and go back home or stay and help. He didn’t have cables himself so just leave. Get mad at the Sheriff! 💯 Would you have been upset like that if you were the tow truck driver? Do you carry jumper cables in your car? Have you ever been stranded and needed help?

👉M-Û-R-Č-H👈

22,777 Aufrufe • vor 2 Monaten