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[Zainal Zulia @ZainalZulia]

Tengok banyak kali pun kelakar

[💪🎭..Rai ji..💪🎭 @Vinod_r108]

Top 4 Funniest Haaland Interviews

[Jota @jota_snchez]

Una profesora de Stanford lleva 20 años estudiando por qué unos tienen suerte y la mayoría no.

Su conclusión: la suerte es como el viento pero nadie sabe ponerle vela.

Si quisiera más suerte, haría estas 7 cosas:

1/ Micro-riesgos fuera de mi zona de confort.

[MATT GRAY @matt_gray_]

Here’s the difference between a magnetic business and a draining one:

[Aysha Ridzuan @ayshardzn]

My favourite story of this World Cup - in 2007, there was a photoshoot done for a charity calendar by a Catalan newspaper and UNICEF. This baby’s family entered a raffle to win a photoshoot with a Barcelona player at Camp Nou and they won it.

The baby was Lamine Yamal at 5 months old and the Barcelona player was 20-year-old Lionel Messi.

This weekend, they’ll face each other in the World Cup final.

[Zainal Zulia @ZainalZulia]

Sial la ha ha

[Drunk Jack Grealish 🍻 @DrunkGreaIish]

She wasn’t my favorite Spice Girl anyway 😭

[Zainal Zulia @ZainalZulia]

Best

[• يمنى♡• @yumnah_elkhabir]

THIS!

[Memes vs. Football @memesvsfootball]

Football fans after Cape Verde’s elimination:

[Zainal Zulia @ZainalZulia]

@fmtoday @Injang_Nation Fakof

[Mason Hughes @msnrhu]

Kasparov on greatness.
Banger.

[Adam Grant @AdamMGrant]

Buying a fancy car is not a sign of a midlife crisis. It’s a mark of relationship insecurity.

6 studies: When men and women have attachment anxiety, they seek status symbols to compensate and stand out among their peers.

Belonging and connection are antidotes to materialism.

[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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[Evreni Merak Ediyoruz @evrenseImerak]

Güneşin yerçekimi gezegenleri işte böyle bir arada tutuyor.

[Mark Manson @Markmanson]

The pain you feel isn’t just from what happened to you, it’s from what you tell yourself about it. 
Choose the story that helps you heal more.

[Derek Sivers @sivers]

16 conversations in super-multicultural Malaysia, Kuala Lumpur: https://t.co/BQ5HmwITh1

[Naval Quotes @NavalQuotes247]

"Your profile photo is how you see yourself and your background image is what you care about."

@naval

[Startup Archive @StartupArchive_]

Steve Jobs on what separates successful founders from unsuccessful ones

Steve is asked what the factors of success and common pitfalls are for young entrepreneurs. He responds:

“I get asked this a lot, and I have a pretty standard answer. A lot of people come to me and say, ‘I want to be an entrepreneur.’ And I go, ‘Oh, that’s great, what’s your idea?’ And they say they don’t have one yet. And I say I think you should go get a job as a busboy or something until you find something you’re really passionate about, because it’s a lot of work.”

Steve continues:

“I’m convinced that about half of what separates the successful entrepreneurs from the non-successful ones is pure perseverance. It is so hard. You pour so much of your life into this thing, and there are such rough moments in time that most people give up. I don’t blame them. It’s really tough, and it consumes your life. I mean, if you’ve got a family and you’re in the early days of a company, I can’t imagine how one could do it. I’m sure it’s been done, but it’s rough because it’s pretty much an 18-hour-a-day job, 7 days a week for a while. So unless you have a lot of passion about this, you’re not going to survive. You’re going to give it up.”

He concludes:

“You’ve got to have an idea or a problem or a wrong that you want to right that you’re passionate about. Otherwise, you’re not going to have the perseverance to stick it through. And I think that’s half the battle right there.”

[Eric Jorgenson 📚 ☀️ @EricJorgenson]

Engineers>Scientists. -- @elonmusk

Do you agree?

[Morne Galanos @MorneGalanos]

@ItsBiggyBoy @grok

[MAZE @mazemoore]

2012. Elon Musk on The Gavin Newsom Show talking about SpaceX.