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[Joey @PrototypeTed]

Permanent Legit check. Please comment below if we’ve done business before. Thank you. 🙏🏻

[big content guy @bigcontentguy]

first beer of the weekend has been,,,,,,,,,, opened 🤝

[Chris Lakin @chrislakin]

what your risk-aversion costs you

[Andrej Drats @AndrejDrats]

Steve Jobs' team told him to his face that his ship date was reality distortion. He agreed with their evidence and kept the date anyway. The tape explains a decision rule most founders never learn.

December 1985. NeXT is 90 days old, funded with Jobs' own money after he left Apple. At the first company retreat, the team debates slipping the launch from spring 1987 to spring 1988.

The pushback is brutal and specific.

One team member has receipts: "We've got a person here that said he could do a word processor in six months that's taking three years."

Another names the danger: "Reality distortion is reality distortion. It has its motivational value." Build the plan on a fake date, and every design decision made from it gets torn up later.

Jobs does not argue the evidence. "Well, George, I can't change the world."

He argues something else entirely:

"I think we have to drive a stake in the ground somewhere. And I think if we miss this window, then a whole series of events come into play."

"We can't sell enough units in 87 to pay for our operating costs."

Colleges buy computers in the summer. The campus surveys had already put the ceiling at $3,000. Miss spring 1987, and NeXT sells nothing for a year while burning his money.

"We have 18 months. So I don't think we have a company if we don't do this. No matter what I say or anybody else says, that is my deepest belief. If we don't do this, we will not be able to attract great people. We will not be able to retain some of the ones we have."

My note: the team argued estimates. Jobs argued conditions. An estimate says when the work might be done, and it invites negotiation. A condition says when the company is dead, and it does not negotiate.

That is why the stake held. He anchored the date to the market's calendar and his own runway, not to optimism. The engineers could refute the schedule. Nobody in the room could refute the window.

The uncomfortable version for founders: if your deadline comes from your team's estimates, it will move. If it comes from the physics of your market, it was never really a deadline. It is a survival condition wearing one.

Steve Jobs at the first NeXT retreat, December 1985. Footage released by the Steve Jobs Archive in May 2026.

Founders: if you want your X to do this for your business, check the first reply.

[Octavian 🇪🇺🦉 @posta_octavian]

Zizek speaks of this.

It's impossible to love perfection

[Mechanical Knowledge @mechanical_4u]

The Nissan GT-R R35 earned the nickname "Godzilla" for a reason. Introduced in 2007, it shocked the supercar world by delivering insane performance at a fraction of the price of European exotics. Powered by the legendary 3.8-liter twin-turbo VR38DETT V6, the R35 produces over 565-600+ horsepower depending on the version, launching from 0-100 km/h in around 2.7-3 seconds with its advanced ATTESA all-wheel-drive system.

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[alexei @alexeixbt]

imagine a mf not being motivated by the sound of this masterpiece

[Uncle Ruckus @Emarged]

“Until death, all defeat is psychological."

[𝐓𝐢𝐦𝐢✰ @_timiszn]

Me realizing sleep is a free trial of death but with ads.

[DAKKADAKKA @DAKKADAKKA1]

The Left has no Answer for this.

[Garcia @GarciaCap]

Trying to buy the dip when I already bought the last 17 dips

[naiive @naiivememe]

Atheists after opening a 50x leverage position https://t.co/h5MYgGB4ax

[AtnsMDX @AtnsXBT]

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you can tell them it's 12345678

[Oliur @UltraLinx]

Can you read 900 words per minute? Try it.

[American Debunk @AmericanDebunk]

Arguably Scott Adams’ greatest livestream video ever- The User Interface for Reality.

If you know, you know.

[That's Freaking Amazing @DesireToSee]

There's no way... 😮🤯

[Ben Wilson @BenWilsonTweets]

"Only by being able to endure what people cannot bear, can you do what people cannot do."

- John D. Rockefeller's Letter to His Son