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[Bill Ackman @BillAckman]

Powerful and true. You should always listen to people you respect, but you have to make your own decisions.

My parents often told me that I never listened. I told them that was not true. I always listened very carefully, but I always made my own decisions.

You have to live your own life.

[Leaders 𝕏 Junction @LeadersJunction]

He learned a very important lesson‼️

[ImpactoEterno @ImpactoEterno]

Al ver este vídeo, se entiende el verdadero peso de la cadena perpetua.

No hace falta explicar mucho más para imaginar lo que significa pasar una vida entera encerrado.

[MUSKOSOPHY @muskosophy]

Elon Musk on generational trauma:

“When someone who is supposed to care for you does you wrong, that breaks most people, but eventually the passing on of generational trauma must end.”

[Dan Peña @danspena]

SOUND FAMILIAR? IT IS QLA! AS SAID ON CNBC 6 MAY, 2019

[Joe Lonsdale @JTLonsdale]

We didn’t have “HR” when building Palantir, for similar reasons - I avoided Ryan’s mistake.

And when we needed some PeopleOps, we hired technical leaders.

Going into the vast majority of companies and firing most of their HR and Marketing departments would tend to create value!

[Race @multiplanet1]

Elon Musk's first wife once described what it's like to watch him fail.

She said he doesn't react the way normal people react. When a rocket explodes, most people in the room go silent. Some cry. Some start calculating the financial damage.

Musk pulls out his phone and starts making calls. Not emotional calls. Engineering calls. "What failed. When can we fix it. When's the next launch." His voice doesn't change. His face doesn't change. The rocket that just cost $60 million is already in the past. The next one is all that exists.

She said it was the most unsettling thing she'd ever witnessed. Not because he was cold. Because he genuinely wasn't affected. The failure didn't register as failure. It registered as data. An experiment that produced results. Results that inform the next experiment.

This is why he wins. Not because he doesn't fail. He fails more spectacularly than anyone in history. He wins because failure occupies zero psychological space. It enters as data and exits as action.

Most people lose not because they fail but because they spend weeks processing the failure before acting again. Musk spends zero seconds. The gap between failure and next attempt is a phone call.

[Marc Andreessen 🇺🇸 @pmarca]

I think I’m hallucinating right now. Can other people see this, or is it just me?

[Elad Gil @eladgil]

People at major AI labs (using internal models) 3-4 months ahead of startup silicon valley engineers

SV founders/eng 3-6 months ahead of NY

NY founders/eng 6-12 months ahead of rest of world

Most people have no idea how fast AI shifting as 1-2 years behind SOTA

"The future is here, just not equally distributed" - Robert Heinlein

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Accurate

[Rob Hoffman @RobHoffman_]

there are many games you can play to make money

but if you're not making money yet or losing sleep over where your next customer will come from there's only one game you should play: the numbers game

I hate cold email and yet am oddly inspired by it because it's a good reminder: whatever it is you're doing, there is always a volume at which it is statistically impossible to not make money

[Donald Trump Jr. @DonaldJTrumpJr]

Sleepover at dad’s house🤣 It never isn’t surreal to be able to witness this incredible slice of Americana. Just an absolute honor. 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸

[ΛЯIΣᄂ @Prolotario1]

Assuming Here Based Off Similar Cases

There was probably nounting debts, possible personal guarantees on business loans, declining reservations in a saturated market, and the psychological weight of maintaining a successful public image in affluent River Oaks while the books bled.

Many were complaining about the declining service.

This seems lioe a classic entrepreneur despair. The business that defined his identity was quietly failing, and he saw no viable exit that preserved family dignity or future. How many times have we read this type of story?

1. The Emily Long Family. Emily Long, 34, shot and killed her husband Ryan, their two children (ages 6 and 8), then herself.

2. Thomas “T.R.” Ocheltree & Paula Truong Family. The couple, owners of the now-closed Orbit Coffee roastery/cafes, were found dead with their two children in a murder-suicide.

3. Karthik Rajaram Family. Rajaram, 45, a former financial executive, shot and killed his wife, three sons, and mother-in-law before killing himself.

4. Peter Kyun Joon Lee Family. Lee, a Korean-Canadian restaurateur, killed his wife, six-year-old son, and two other occupants in their $1 million Oak Bay home before suicide.

5. Anthony Milan Ross Family. The celebrity vegan chef killed his estranged wife Iris and their two children (ages 11 and infant) before a shootout with police on Christmas Day.

This is why when I 1st started hearing about how hard it is to not only run a successful business but sustain it long term I had a lot of respect for those who have had theirs for atleast a decade or more. That is why when you build something you have to have a fail-safe in place to offset potential losses that you see coming due to unforseen challenges that you may not have the current resources to overcome.

Pivot

Adapt

Capitalize

Anchor

Settle

Repeat

[Kevin O'Leary aka Mr. Wonderful @kevinolearytv]

The fastest way to make a million dollars is to solve a problem for people. People pay you because you saved them time, money and make their lives more productive. Find a pain point that you know everyone has and then provide a product or service that solves for that.

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

This is how an economy actually works

[Camus @newstart_2024]

Cristiano Ronaldo is 40… but his WHOOP age is 28.

He sat down with Will Ahmed and gave a refreshingly balanced take on health:

He doesn’t obsess over his body. He still enjoys burgers, drinks, and staying up until 2am for UFC. But the real key is consistency + balance.

“You’re going to pay the bill in the future,” he said, “but if you have consistency, you’ll be better than the others.”

No extremes. Just showing up for yourself long-term while still living.

What does consistency + balance look like for you — strict habits with room to enjoy life, or something else?

[Brian Armstrong @brian_armstrong]

People are capable of far more than they think, on far shorter timelines. Problems expand to fill the time you give them.

[Marc Andreessen 🇺🇸 @pmarca]

Many people are saying!

[Alex Olshonsky @oloal]

Heard this in AA years before I realized it was wu wei:

“It's easier to act your way into new ways of thinking than it is to think your way into new ways of acting.”

[Poetic Outlaws @OutlawsPoetic]

“Those who lack the courage will always find a philosophy to justify it.”

— Albert Camus