“Find the most important thing to work on and then absolutely attack it. Go ape shit on it immediately.”
The memes that spread through @elonmusk’s companies:
Meme 1: Tip-of-the-spear focus
Always identify and attack the biggest limiter. Don’t spread effort across secondary problems. Laser in on the single constraint that, if removed, would unlock everything downstream.
Meme 2: Push through roadblocks
A roadblock isn’t a reason, it’s a problem statement. You either clear it or escalate until someone does.
Meme 3: Scrappiness
Cost-sensitive resourcefulness over bureaucratic process.
SpaceX’s scrappy approach extends everywhere: reusing test hardware, hacking tools together, building ground support equipment from industrial components instead of aerospace-grade systems.
Small teams build end-to-end instead of handing off between specialized groups. Engineers are expected to design, build, and test what they own. Musk calls the alternative “ivory tower engineering” — design something, throw it over the wall, and let someone else figure out how to actually make it. At SpaceX, the person who drew the bracket is the person who welds it.
Meme 4: Question requirements
Every constraint — customer, regulatory, internal — is treated as a hypothesis to interrogate, not a fact to accept. This is the embodiment of first principles thinking.
Meme 5: Treat everything as learning
Failures and explosions are data for the next iteration, not disasters to be concealed.
SpaceX published compilation videos titled “How Not to Land an Orbital Rocket.” Spectacular droneship crashes, set to music.
This isn’t just PR, it’s a genuine signal that visible failure is acceptable if you extract the lesson.
You think progress comes from a more advanced program.
It doesn’t.
What you’re feeling when you simplify and suddenly improve is not luck. It’s your nervous system finally getting a clean signal. Your brain doesn’t adapt to methods. It adapts to measurable stress it can predict and recover from.
Load. Volume. Effort. Repetition.
Every time you switch programs chasing novelty, you reset that signal. You interrupt the very pattern your brain is trying to optimize. That’s why your best phases felt different. Not easier. Clearer.
The truth is uncomfortable:
Advanced methods don’t outperform fundamentals for most people. They only matter when they solve a constraint.
The edge is not complexity. It’s staying with the same stimulus long enough for your brain to master it.
He just destroyed Tarantino's main contribution to cinematic cult, to his cult
Now "E25:17" is filthy, dragged through the mud, touched by these people😭
Why are they so evil?
🇺🇸 Hegseth recited “Ezekiel 25:17” speech at a Pentagon church service.
But here’s the problem: it’s not actually from the Bible, but from Tarantino’s Pulp Fiction.
He even tweaked the ending to reference a military rescue unit.
Who do you think pulled it off better? Hegseth or Samuel L. Jackson?
Oh boy. if, Americans, politicians, the Court, Senate, even families, friends. if they do nothing to imprison him, and try him to the fullest extension of the law, it's cuz they're all involved, all the system
How can this people in court, political parties, citizens do nothing?
When you’re stuck in an unpopular war, improve your popularity by starting a fight with the Pope!
President Trump vs. Pope Leo. The latest in our “I can’t believe this is real life” timeline, narrated by yours truly —
You need to read more, and you need to consume less. You need to set aside time to do a workout for the mind, and you need to give it time to recover. Especially now that it's so easy for your cognitive capacity to atrophy. Refuse to become mentally obese.