Mr. Michael ☀️🔋🍃=🌍❤️

Born & raised in Africa. Educated in the UK. Back in Africa to modernise and develop;

➡️ ENERGY
➡️ CONSTRUCTION
➡️ TRANSPORTATION
➡️ FINANCE

[. @VeyroCFC]

No player dead or alive will ever recreate this

[Lewis 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @WaldronLewis]

Elon Musk literally sat down for a 45-minute talk with Y Combinator that explains how to build world-changing companies better than any business school on earth. This is the advice he gave a room full of young founders:

1. Don't try to build something great. Try to build something useful.

Everyone obsesses over greatness. Musk says that's the wrong target. "I didn't originally think I would build something great. I wanted to try to build something useful. I didn't think I would build anything particularly great. Seemed unlikely, but I wanted to at least try." Aim for useful first. Greatness, if it comes, is a byproduct.

2. When you can't get in the front door, build your own door.

Before Musk started his first company, he tried to get a job at Netscape. "I sent my resume into Netscape and nobody responded. I tried hanging out in the lobby to see if I could bump into someone, but I was too shy to talk to anyone. So I'm like, this is ridiculous, I'll just write software myself." He didn't set out to be a founder. He became one because no one would hire him.

3. He slept in the office and showered at the YMCA.

The origin of his first company was not glamorous. "We couldn't even afford a place to stay. The office was 500 bucks a month, so we just slept in the office and showered at the YMCA." He couldn't afford proper internet either, so he drilled a hole through the office floor and ran a cable to the internet provider downstairs. That was the founder of the future richest man on earth.

4. Keep the chips on the table.

When Musk sold his first company, he received a $20 million cheque. His bank balance went from $10,000 to $20 million overnight. Most people would have stopped. He put almost all of it straight back into his next company. "I kept the chips on the table." He did the same thing decades later, over and over. He hates money sitting idle. Money is fuel for the next mission.

5. Start with the mission, then work backwards to make it a business.

Musk didn't start SpaceX to make money. He went on the NASA website to find out when humans were going to Mars, and there was no plan. So he decided to build one. "There had been no prior example of a rocket startup succeeding. A small chance of success is better than no chance of success." The mission came first. The business model came later.

6. He started SpaceX expecting to fail.

He is brutally honest about the odds. "SpaceX started in mid-2002 expecting to fail. Probably 90% chance of failing. When recruiting people, I said, we're probably going to die, but small chance we might not die." The first three launches failed. The fourth one worked with no money left. "If the fourth launch hadn't worked, it would have been curtains. We made it by the skin of our teeth."

7. Break every problem down to physics.

This is the core of how Musk thinks. "First principles means break things down to the fundamental elements that are most likely to be true, then reason up from there, as opposed to reasoning by analogy." His example is rockets. Everyone priced them based on what old rockets cost. Musk asked what a rocket is actually made of, priced the raw metals, and found the materials were only 1-2% of the historical price. The rest was inefficiency he could attack.

8. When told something takes 24 months, break it down and do it in six.

Last year xAI needed a giant computer to train its AI. Suppliers said it would take 18 to 24 months. "It's like, well, we need to get that done in six months or we won't be competitive." So he broke it into parts. Needed a building, so he found an old factory. Needed power, so he rented generators. Needed cooling, so he rented a quarter of America's mobile cooling capacity. He slept in the data centre and ran cabling himself. It got done.

9. Watch your ego-to-ability ratio.

Musk's single sharpest piece of advice for young founders is about staying honest with yourself. "A major failure mode is when your ego-to-ability ratio gets too high. Then you break the feedback loop to reality." Keep the ego small, internalise responsibility for everything, and stay ruthlessly connected to what's actually true. "You want to close the loop on reality hard. That's a super big deal."

10. Chase work, not glory.

His closing philosophy ties it all together. "It's so hard to be useful. The area under the curve of total utility is how useful you've been to your fellow human beings times how many people. If you aspire to do true work, your probability of success is much higher. Don't aspire to glory, aspire to work."

He was ridiculed for years. The press called him "internet guy attempting to build a rocket company." He agreed it sounded absurd. He did it anyway, because a small chance of doing something useful beat no chance at all.

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[Mr. Michael ☀️🔋🍃=🌍❤️ @TheTeslaAfrican]

@Angle__wix Sounds like she just did homie a favour. Should kick her ass out the car and find the ring himself. And keep it for a woman with better emotional control and more respect for him.

[Mr. Michael ☀️🔋🍃=🌍❤️ @TheTeslaAfrican]

@Arsenal_rep1 No. Gyokeres is too unique a profile. You can get Jr. Krupi who's prem proven today not 3 years ago with a higher ceiling and is just 18.

[Mr. Michael ☀️🔋🍃=🌍❤️ @TheTeslaAfrican]

@niallmoran_ @ltarsenal Mbappe will DESTROY our dressing room like he did at PSG and Real Madrid!!

[NaijaFarmer @Nig_Farmer]

That's why we don't want Arsenal to win anything in this life.

Bcs tell me what in the world is this beautiful song from Arsenal fans

As much as I h@te that they won the league I can't help but dance to this beautiful song.

Nonsense team.... Gbedu for days!

[Kelvin Omukungu @KOmukungu]

Tears man. I love this club😭😭😭

[Not A Number @myhiddenvalue]

Free water 👇

[truthache @truthache68]

Flat Earth—not scripted. 👀😅

[Blake S. Taylor Investigations 🚫 @YoungGun8140]

Bugha sphere is authentic including ancient Sanskrit written on it.

[Gooner Chris @ArsenalN7]

This guy actually spits facts occasionally 🔥 https://t.co/QX08NSfjeN

[Brian Roemmele @BrianRoemmele]

SUNDAY NIGHT PUBLIC DOMAIN MOVIE TIME.

1962 public-domain masterpiece The Creation of the Humanoids and it hit harder than ever.

I watched this forgotten gem in the late 1960s and it freaked me out (man).

It isn’t just a low-budget sci-fi flick about androids taking over after a nuclear war.

It’s a razor-sharp meditation on what it really means to be human when machines start looking, feeling, and even loving like us.

I’m currently writing a deep-dive https://t.co/tcKeuiQyql article on it exploring how its 60-year-old warnings about synthetic beings, identity, and the soul are playing out right now in the age of AI and the coming wave of humanoid robots.

So get ready. I have some surprises.

Watch it with me!

(The film is 100% free and legal so don’t DMCA me)

[Richie Rich @gofishh77]

This is wild! Even before the crazy jump he has to suit up on the ledge. Just takes one wrong move. No thanks!

[Mac @Mac_Gooner]

“OMG they’ve won’t it” 😭😭😂

[MY LUNCH BREAK @MYLUNCHBREAK_]

They Didn't Have Toilets?

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[Mr. Michael ☀️🔋🍃=🌍❤️ @TheTeslaAfrican]

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[Mr. Michael ☀️🔋🍃=🌍❤️ @TheTeslaAfrican]

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[Concerned Citizen @BGatesIsaPyscho]

“Look at that - that’s manipulation of the Ether right there”