@staketruth How violently you insult the purity of this Truth
By avoiding exposing it to your heart
And reflexively jumping into the empty and hollow "how."
Become Sincere
Become Serious.
The trouble with the wealthy man is that he Has what others do not.
The intoxication of Having, prevents him from looking at what he Has Not. And that which he Has Not and Truly Seeks, are the very same thing that others have not and truly seek.
Thus,
All die empty-handed.
There is no compulsion for a man to seek Truth.
In fact, it is not recommended.
For if such a longing arises within him,
He will soon find himself Alone,
With no one to speak to,
No book to refer to,
And nothing to speak about.
Truth
Is a Dangerous freedom.
Elon Musk explains his 5-step algorithm for solving any problem:
"The most common mistake of smart engineers is to optimize a thing that should not exist."
"I have this very basic first principles algorithm that I run as a mantra."
Elon breaks it down:
Step 1: Question the requirements.
"Make the requirements less dumb. The requirements are always dumb to some degree, no matter how smart the person who gave you those requirements. You have to start there, because otherwise you could get the perfect answer to the wrong question."
Step 2: Try to delete it.
"Try to delete the part or the process step entirely. If you're not forced to put back at least 10% of what you delete, you're not deleting enough. Most people feel like they've succeeded if they haven't been forced to put things back in. But actually they haven't, they've been overly conservative and left things in that shouldn't be there."
Step 3: Optimize or simplify.
"The most common mistake of smart engineers is to optimize a thing that should not exist. So you don't optimize until after you've tried to delete."
Step 4: Speed it up.
"Any given thing can be done faster than you think. But you shouldn't speed things up until you've tried to delete it and optimize it otherwise, you're speeding up something that shouldn't exist."
Step 5: Automate.
"And then the fifth thing is to automate it."
Elon explains why the order matters:
"I've gone backwards so many times where I've automated something, sped it up, simplified it, and then deleted it. I got tired of doing that. So that's why I have this mantra."
“Greatness does not come out of intelligence, it comes from character.
Character is not formed out of smart people: it is formed out of people who have suffered.”
— Nvidia CEO, Jensen Huang
This 45 minute Stanford lecture will teach you more about building companies than every startup book combined.
Bookmark & give it 45 minutes today, no matter what.
“You have thousands of moments ahead of you. The important thing isn’t to get them all right; it’s to find a way to keep moving forward.”
Sundar Pichai, MS ’95, CEO of Google and Alphabet, addressed the Class of 2026 at Stanford’s 135th Commencement ceremony.
Watch the full speech at the link: https://t.co/3OFNRonqeH