Aleksandre Siradzé

Executive Director @entrepreneur

[Physics In History @PhysInHistory]

"The value of a college education is not the learning of many facts but the training of the mind to think."

-- A. Einstein (1879 - 1955)

[Reads with Ravi @readswithravi]

“In my whole life I've never been good at something I wasn't very interested in. It just doesn't work. There's no substitute for strong interest.”

— Charlie Munger

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

You'll never look at your phone again after watching this

[Reads with Ravi @readswithravi]

Name a book that everyone should read.

I’ll go first: Man’s Search for Meaning by Viktor Frankl.

[Aleksandre Siradzé @AlexSiradze]

@utdmax0 Hargreaves

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

A peculiar, closed wing paper plane

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[World of Statistics @stats_feed]

The World’s Highest-Earning Creators

March 2025 to March 2026 Estimated Earnings:

MrBeast: $300M
Dhar Mann: $65M
Steven Bartlett: $52M
Markiplier: $38M
Rhett & Link: $37M
Codie Sanchez: $31M
IShowSpeed: $30M
Mark Rober: $30M
Ms. Rachel: $26M
Jesser: $25M
MrBallen: $24M
Druski: $20M
Charli D'Amelio: $18M
Jacksepticeye: $18M
Adam W: $17.3M
Rebecca Zamolo: $15M
Jake Shane: $14M
Nick DiGiovanni: $14M
Brent Rivera: $13.7M
Typical Gamer: $13M
Stokes Twins: $12.4M
Jordan The Stallion: $12.4M
Alix Earle: $12M
Marques Brownlee: $10.9M
Alan Chikin Chow: $10.5M
Ashton Hall: $10M
Khaby Lame: $9.9M
James Dumoulin: $9.9M
Haley Baylee: $9.6M
Mikayla Nogueira: $9M

Source: Forbes’ Top Creators 2026

[Aleksandre Siradzé @AlexSiradze]

@Sakaextra2 Hargraves

[FIFA World Cup @FIFAWorldCup]

🗣️ "It's about passion", Cristiano Ronaldo. 🇵🇹

#FIFAWorldCup

[Abir Hasan @codeby_abir]

BREAKING: Google Gemini can now analyze any stock like a Wall Street analyst (for free).

Here are 10 insane Gemini prompts that replace $4,000/month Bloomberg terminals:

Save for later🔖

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

50 websites to find unlimited content

[Investment Wisdom @InvestingCanons]

“If you buy good businesses at reasonable prices and hold them, you’re going to make a lot of money.”

— Warren Buffett

[Shubhvani @shubhvanii]

List of 9 websites where you can download unlimited books for free:

1. planetebook .com
2. oceanofpdf .com
3. freecomputerbooks .com
4. zlibrary .to
5. BookBoon .com
6. gutenberg .org
7. manybooks .net
8. pdfdrive .com
9. digilibraries .com

[Lewis 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @WaldronLewis]

Elon Musk literally sat down for a 45-minute talk with Y Combinator that explains how to build world-changing companies better than any business school on earth. This is the advice he gave a room full of young founders:

1. Don't try to build something great. Try to build something useful.

Everyone obsesses over greatness. Musk says that's the wrong target. "I didn't originally think I would build something great. I wanted to try to build something useful. I didn't think I would build anything particularly great. Seemed unlikely, but I wanted to at least try." Aim for useful first. Greatness, if it comes, is a byproduct.

2. When you can't get in the front door, build your own door.

Before Musk started his first company, he tried to get a job at Netscape. "I sent my resume into Netscape and nobody responded. I tried hanging out in the lobby to see if I could bump into someone, but I was too shy to talk to anyone. So I'm like, this is ridiculous, I'll just write software myself." He didn't set out to be a founder. He became one because no one would hire him.

3. He slept in the office and showered at the YMCA.

The origin of his first company was not glamorous. "We couldn't even afford a place to stay. The office was 500 bucks a month, so we just slept in the office and showered at the YMCA." He couldn't afford proper internet either, so he drilled a hole through the office floor and ran a cable to the internet provider downstairs. That was the founder of the future richest man on earth.

4. Keep the chips on the table.

When Musk sold his first company, he received a $20 million cheque. His bank balance went from $10,000 to $20 million overnight. Most people would have stopped. He put almost all of it straight back into his next company. "I kept the chips on the table." He did the same thing decades later, over and over. He hates money sitting idle. Money is fuel for the next mission.

5. Start with the mission, then work backwards to make it a business.

Musk didn't start SpaceX to make money. He went on the NASA website to find out when humans were going to Mars, and there was no plan. So he decided to build one. "There had been no prior example of a rocket startup succeeding. A small chance of success is better than no chance of success." The mission came first. The business model came later.

6. He started SpaceX expecting to fail.

He is brutally honest about the odds. "SpaceX started in mid-2002 expecting to fail. Probably 90% chance of failing. When recruiting people, I said, we're probably going to die, but small chance we might not die." The first three launches failed. The fourth one worked with no money left. "If the fourth launch hadn't worked, it would have been curtains. We made it by the skin of our teeth."

7. Break every problem down to physics.

This is the core of how Musk thinks. "First principles means break things down to the fundamental elements that are most likely to be true, then reason up from there, as opposed to reasoning by analogy." His example is rockets. Everyone priced them based on what old rockets cost. Musk asked what a rocket is actually made of, priced the raw metals, and found the materials were only 1-2% of the historical price. The rest was inefficiency he could attack.

8. When told something takes 24 months, break it down and do it in six.

Last year xAI needed a giant computer to train its AI. Suppliers said it would take 18 to 24 months. "It's like, well, we need to get that done in six months or we won't be competitive." So he broke it into parts. Needed a building, so he found an old factory. Needed power, so he rented generators. Needed cooling, so he rented a quarter of America's mobile cooling capacity. He slept in the data centre and ran cabling himself. It got done.

9. Watch your ego-to-ability ratio.

Musk's single sharpest piece of advice for young founders is about staying honest with yourself. "A major failure mode is when your ego-to-ability ratio gets too high. Then you break the feedback loop to reality." Keep the ego small, internalise responsibility for everything, and stay ruthlessly connected to what's actually true. "You want to close the loop on reality hard. That's a super big deal."

10. Chase work, not glory.

His closing philosophy ties it all together. "It's so hard to be useful. The area under the curve of total utility is how useful you've been to your fellow human beings times how many people. If you aspire to do true work, your probability of success is much higher. Don't aspire to glory, aspire to work."

He was ridiculed for years. The press called him "internet guy attempting to build a rocket company." He agreed it sounded absurd. He did it anyway, because a small chance of doing something useful beat no chance at all.

Here's the thing though....

Musk became the most followed founder alive because everything he does happens in public. The launches, the failures, the talks like this one. The companies made him powerful. The personal brand made his every word travel around the world before he finishes saying it.

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[Osagie Alonge @OsaGz]

June 29, 2000: Patrick Kluivert misses a PK against Italy, hitting the left upright.

June 29, 2026: Justin Kluivert misses a PK against Morocco, hitting the left upright.

[Jon Erlichman @JonErlichman]

Elon Musk turns 55 today.

Here are 55 milestones.

Age 54: world's first trillionaire
Age 54: takes SpaceX public
Age 54: SpaceX acquires xAI
Age 54: releases Grok 4
Age 53: launches Robotaxi service
Age 53: xAI acquires X
Age 53: catches Starship booster
Age 53: unveils Cybercab
Age 53: first private spacewalk
Age 53: Colossus supercomputer
Age 52: first Neuralink implant
Age 52: launches Grok
Age 52: rebrands Twitter as X
Age 52: founds xAI 
Age 51: launches first Starship
Age 51: buys Twitter
Age 50: flies first all-civilian crew
Age 50: unveils Optimus robot
Age 49: wins NASA moon contract
Age 48: launches crew to orbit
Age 48: ships Tesla Model Y
Age 48: unveils Cybertruck
Age 48: launches Tesla Megapack
Age 47: first Starlink satellites
Age 46: launches Falcon Heavy 
Age 46: unveils Tesla Semi 
Age 45: starts Boring Company 
Age 45: opens first Gigafactory 
Age 45: founds Neuralink 
Age 45: unveils Solar Roof 
Age 45: reflies Falcon 9 
Age 44: reveals Tesla Model 3 
Age 44: lands a rocket booster
Age 44: co-founds OpenAI 
Age 44: ships Tesla Model X 
Age 43: unveils Powerwall 
Age 43: launches Tesla Autopilot 
Age 41: opens first Superchargers 
Age 40: ships Tesla Model S 
Age 40: Dragon reaches ISS 
Age 39: Dragon reaches orbit 
Age 39: takes Tesla public (IPO) 
Age 38: Falcon 9 first flight 
Age 37: Falcon 1 reaches orbit 
Age 36: ships first Tesla Roadster 
Age 35: co-founds SolarCity 
Age 32: co-founds Tesla 
Age 31: sells PayPal to eBay 
Age 30: founds SpaceX 
Age 30: takes PayPal public 
Age 27: founds X dot com
Age 27: sells Zip2 to Compaq 
Age 24: co-founds Zip2 
Age 19: sells PCs in dorm
Age 12: codes video game Blastar

[Curious Minds @CuriousMindsHub]

Get these 7 types of rest to avoid burnout

[Deep Note @1DeepNote]

6 Great Books on Productivity 👇

1. The Miracle Morning ▾

[Amit @HeyAmit_]

This 50-minute lecture by Jeff Bezos will teach you more about business than a 2-year MBA program.

Bookmark it and give it 50 minutes today, no matter what.

[Elyra Future Tech @TechElyra]

These 10 ChatGPT prompts feel illegal to know (but they’re not):