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@Adams_Tech_AI Jup, dumb Dutchman from Pretoria they say...... go for it, Elon.
It is not good financial advice.
AI Slop
Sources: last-minute calls with Elon Musk, Mark Zuckerberg, David Sacks, and others helped persuade President Trump not to sign the highly anticipated AI EO (Washington Post)
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@brivael Please add ZA. Also a good example.
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Ai slop
There is a room inside SpaceX that fewer than 20 people have ever entered.
It has no official name. Employees call it the Vault. There are no windows. One door. No phones allowed inside. No laptops. No recording devices. A Faraday cage built into the walls blocks all wireless signals.
What happens inside that room has shaped more of the modern world than most people will ever know.
This is where Musk makes his actual decisions.
Not in board meetings. Not on Twitter. Not in the public interviews where he says provocative things and the media argues about whether he's a genius or a villain. Those are theater. Necessary theater, but theater.
The real decisions happen in a room with no signal, no recording, and no audience.
Every major SpaceX milestone was decided there first. The decision to attempt landing a rocket on a drone ship. The decision to build Starship out of steel instead of carbon fiber when every engineer said steel was outdated. The decision to build Starlink. The decision to bid on military contracts that Boeing and Lockheed had monopolized for decades.
Each of these decisions looked insane from the outside. Each one was the product of hours in a room with no noise.
Musk has talked about this principle indirectly. Never naming the room. But describing why it exists. He said the quality of a decision is inversely proportional to the number of people in the room when it's made. He said most CEOs make their worst decisions in meetings and their best decisions alone.
The room is his technology for being alone.
In a world where every thought is interrupted by notifications, every strategy session has 15 people with competing agendas, and every CEO is performing confidence for an audience, Musk built a physical space where none of that exists.
No signal means no interruption. No phones means no distraction. No audience means no performance. No recording means no self-censorship.
What remains when you strip all of that away is the only thing that matters for decision making. The actual problem and your actual thinking about it.
Most people have never experienced this. They think they've thought deeply about something. They haven't. They've thought about it between notifications. They've thought about it while performing thinking for an audience of colleagues.
True thought requires the absence of everything except the thought itself.
I don't have a Faraday cage. But I started creating my own version. Two hours per day. Phone in another room. No laptop. Just a notebook and the problem.
The first week felt almost physically painful. My brain kept reaching for stimulation that wasn't there. Phantom phone checks. The urge to quickly look something up that was actually the urge to escape the discomfort of uninterrupted thought.
By week three the quality of my thinking changed in ways I can measure. Solutions appeared that never surfaced during normal screen-filled days. Connections between ideas formed that couldn't form when attention was fragmented across 30 browser tabs.
Most people live at 5% signal and 95% noise. They make every decision inside that noise and wonder why the decisions are mediocre.
Musk built a physical space that inverts the ratio. 95% signal. 5% noise. The decisions that come from that environment are categorically different from anything the noise produces.
You don't need a Faraday cage. You need two hours, a closed door, and the discipline to leave your phone in another room.
The best decision you'll ever make will come from the quietest room you've ever sat in.
The rockets are impressive. The room that decided to build them is the actual invention.
The holy book should always be within arms length
If you’re hanging on by a thread make sure it's attached to the hem of His garment.
I respect that in a PM. When I read Shogun 1975 st7, it really had an impact on me.
Japan’s PM Sanae Takaichi:
“It’s better for the population to shrink than to fill the country with low-skilled immigrants from alien cultures.
Preserving Japan’s way of life matters more than cheap labour. We can fix the birth rate crisis without relying on incompatible foreigners.
You no longer have a country when you become the minority.”
She’s absolutely right.
Thank you. He has an office that handles his personal stuff.
People are quick to jump to conclusions. Low IQ is a huge problem on social media.
@pelositracker I'm no fan of Trump, but the correlation between his statements and the increased value of the stock is not accurate. His endorsement came after he was already up nearly 80% on his initial investment. The stock is only up $10 since his endorsement.
Why do you post a commentvideo from March 2025.?
You should know better
🚨 President Trump is DEMANDING federal agencies STOP sending our tax dollars overseas, and BUY AMERICAN instead
47 signed an executive order CRACKING DOWN on BS "Made in America" claims, and he intends to enforce it HARD.
"No more games. No more fake labels. America first means BUY AMERICAN!"
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They need to build a battery factory.
Lots of drones about, the genie is out the bottle.
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Yup
People keep asking me how I got into IT.
I got into IT because I was too socially awkward for sales and too impatient for engineering.
In 2009, I was the only IT person at a 40-person startup.
Everything was my fault. Server down? My fault. Email slow? My fault. Someone's laptop got a virus because they opened an email from their own mother? Also my fault, apparently.
One day the CEO asked me why our internet was "acting slow." I told him it was probably DNS. I had no idea what DNS was. I just knew it was the answer to everything.
He asked me to fix it. I told him I needed $8K in equipment and three weeks.
I spent two weeks watching YouTube videos about DNS, bought $200 in equipment, and told him it was fixed.
It wasn't. The internet was still slow. But nobody asked about it again because a month later the company ran out of money and shut down.
I got hired at the next place and immediately told them our DNS was probably the problem. They believed me. That was 15 years ago.
I'm now an IT Director at a Fortune 500 company. My entire career is built on the fact that I got lucky once and nobody's fact-checked me since.
Last month someone asked me a technical question during a meeting and I just said "DNS" and everyone nodded and moved on.
I'm convinced my entire C-suite reputation is based on a YouTube video from 2009 I watched while pretending to work.
@Abramjee ID 10 T
To all the wannabe tech managers, this is how it's done
https://t.co/vjuZZmAGDi
Marc Andreessen says Elon Musk runs 120 design reviews a day in 5-minute slots.
He does this while running six different companies at once.
Andreessen says Elon maps each company as a production process.
Each process has one bottleneck — the single thing slowing it down.
Elon finds the engineer working on that bottleneck and sits with them until it's fixed.
He does this at Tesla 52 times a year. Personally.
"There's no CEO like this."
Most CEOs run their companies through a wall of middle managers.
Andreessen watched IBM collapse under that model.
Inside IBM, they had a name for the failure mode: the "Big Gray Cloud."
It was the traveling court of suited men who kept the CEO away from engineers.
After 12 layers of compounding lies, the CEO had no idea what was happening.
Elon's method is the polar opposite.
Design review math:
- 5 minutes per engineer
- 12 reviews per hour
- 10 hours per day
- 120 reviews per day
An engineer described working for him as entering "a zone of shocking competence."
On sustaining it, Elon's rule is:
"I don't take vacations."
What's the one weekly bottleneck in your work that nobody's fixing?
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