A girl just said she tried to get rejected 1000 times in 2025 and ended up being cast in plays, winning pageants, securing hella paid brand deals, and appearing in commercials.This is your sign to chase rejection to the point of "accidental" success. You'll be surprised.
A retired NASA engineer who had worked on the Space Shuttle program for 25 years was hired by SpaceX at age 62. He described the first week as the most disorienting experience of his professional life.
At NASA, a design change required 3 meetings, 2 committees, a review board, and 6 to 18 months of documentation. At SpaceX, his new supervisor said "if it works, build it. If it doesn't, change it by Friday."
He sat at his desk after the first day and called his wife. He told her he felt like a man who had been swimming with ankle weights for 25 years and someone just cut them off. He could move. He could decide. He could build something in the morning and test it in the afternoon. The constraint that he had accepted as the nature of aerospace engineering turned out to be the nature of bureaucracy.
Within 6 months he had contributed to more design iterations than he had completed in his last 5 years at NASA. Not because he was working harder. Because the time between having an idea and testing the idea collapsed from months to hours. The same brain. The same knowledge. A different operating system.
He described a specific moment where he proposed a modification to a Raptor engine component. At NASA, the proposal would have entered a queue. At SpaceX, the modification was machined by the end of the day and tested by the following morning. He watched his idea become a physical object in 18 hours. At NASA, 18 hours would not have been enough to schedule the first meeting to discuss whether to schedule a meeting.
He told an interviewer: "I didn't get smarter when I went to SpaceX. I got faster. The intelligence was always there. The system was in the way."
The difference between SpaceX and NASA is not talent. NASA has extraordinary talent. The difference is the time between a thought and a test. SpaceX compresses it. NASA elongates it. The same engineer produces 10x more at SpaceX than at NASA because the bottleneck was never the engineer. It was the meetings about the meetings about the work.
Intelligence must draw on memory. The mind must not simply compile data โ as an algorithm now does more quickly than we can โ but recall lived experiences, which contain depths of meaning that only the human soul can recognize, and connect more deeply with the goodness of these experiences. Everything that is good begins โwith the Spiritโ and thus possesses a breath, a dynamism and a sense of communion that, once experienced, are engraved upon the heart. https://t.co/Ij21tkb3qT
God is dead
But itโs not my fault
Eve has no shame again
Lip stain for sale on my tik tok shop
I take off my clothes
And i do my makeup
Love without intimacy
Look but donโt touch
.. are you looking?
Contraโs new Creative Intelligence Report is one of the most incredible websites Iโve seen - you have to check it out yourself!
Three findings stood out:
1. AI doesnโt seem to be hurting creatives' earnings: 49.1% reported earning more versus 13.9% earning less.
2. The fastest-growing AI tools mentioned in job listings for creatives were Higgsfield (25ร), Replit (10.8ร), and Claude (9.9ร)
3. The most-used AI tools were ChatGPT (29.3%), Claude (27.1%), and Gemini (14.1%). Still pretty standard vs. AI design-specific tools.
Check out @contra's insanely cool report here: https://t.co/h65UyQhn05
AI may do more than automate work.
It may give more people the tools, time and courage to create.
@ludovicbodin on AI, art, entrepreneurship and why the people we meet may matter more than the destination.
Natural Genius Episode 60:
https://t.co/hbndUi3ecJ
The secret to not being awkward is to never force conversation. Donโt try to come up with interesting things to say, donโt talk to people for the sake of talking, donโt voice opinions or ask questions to sound smart. Instead, notice your own curiosity and follow it. If you donโt have any, radiate comfort in your silence.
We recently obtained the highest-resolution 3D images of the human brain ever taken from outside the skull. This is the first look.
Introducing Aleph, a research lab building brain interfaces for the telepathic future. (1/n)
Kelly Wendorf is magnificent.
We spoke about horses, belonging, Uncle Bob Randall, corporate shamanism, and leadership as a living system.
This one is rich, wise and deeply human.
What if leadership is less about force and more about the field a person creates?
Kelly Wendorf joins Natural Genius to talk horses, belonging, corporate shamanism, Uncle Bob Randall, and the shift from power-over to power-with.
Episode 56 is live.
https://t.co/r9KNTEKsmH
This is cool - I met Samantha at @balajis@ns.
Super sweet gal with a lot of zest for life. Had a nice convo, if youโre keen.
Lot of smart, enjoyable interviews on her channel.