Basil

data analysis & problem solving

[DogeDesigner @cb_doge]

ELON MUSK: “My political views are very centrist. They’re not far right. Frankly, calling them far right is an insult to history and an insult to many people. It is an outrageous falsehood. It’s completely absurd. I have literally stated my position, and I’ve been very clear about this: there need to be secure borders.

If there’s an influx of immigrants, then they need to be people who agree with Western ideals and Western values. If there is long-term growth of people who do not, or in some cases are adamantly opposed to Western values, you are setting yourself up for civil war. This is obvious. A child can see this, but this is not a right wing view. I'm simply stating reality.”

[Bill Ackman @BillAckman]

One of the most important speeches you will hear this year on why we are at war with Iran.

Worth five minutes of your time.

[Basil @basiljose88]

@RobertMSterling @elonmusk The missing piece - Afghanis to UK/EU via Pakistan - this dubbed podcast from India covers it well https://t.co/V5Y9HDZgb8

[Basil @basiljose88]

@elonmusk 3 min

[Sawyer Merritt @SawyerMerritt]

Elon Musk tonight on overregulation:

"I got a bunch of nutty stories. SpaceX had to do this study to see if Starship would hit a shark. And I'm like... it's a big ocean. There are a lot of sharks! It’s not impossible, but it’s very unlikely. So we said, 'Fine, we’ll do the analysis. Can you give us the shark data?' They were like, 'No, we can’t give you the shark data.'

Well, then, okay, we’re in a bit of a quandary. How do we solve this shark probability issue? They said, 'Well, we could give it to our western division, but we don’t trust them.' I’m like, 'Am I in a comedy sketch here?!'

Eventually, we got the data and could run the analysis to say, 'Yeah, the sharks are going to be fine.' But they wouldn’t let us proceed with the launch until we did this crazy shark analysis.

Then we thought, 'Okay, now we’re done.' But then they said, 'What about whales?'

When you look at a picture of the Pacific, what percent of the surface area do you see as whale? If Starship did hit a whale, honestly, it’s like the whale had it coming, cause the odds are... so low. It’s like Final Destination: Whale Edition.

And then they said, 'What if the rocket goes underwater, then explodes, and the whales have hearing damage?' This is real!

[Basil @basiljose88]

@elonmusk Limiting number of messages, tweets & replies sent by an account per day also might help with the spam/scam fight right. Do real people or real accounts need to be sending thousands of tweets/messages/replies per day?

[Rob Lennon 🗯 | AI Whisperer @thatroblennon]

Bezos banned PowerPoint in his meetings.

"Memos only" created a writing culture at Amazon unlike any other.

13 writing principles to impress your boss (even Bezos):

[Phillip Rivers @thePhilRivers]

20 tips that’ll teach you more about email marketing than a $2,000 course:

[Basil @basiljose88]

@ahrefs As I am late to the party and seeing this only in 2022, do you have an updated version to the findings. Great info eitherways. Thank you @ahrefs.

[Basil @basiljose88]

@elonmusk Nice one 👍

[Jesse Pujji @jspujji]

Two sales guys used cold calling and data to turn their credit card debt into a $23+ BILLION public company.

The best part?

I interviewed one of them!

This is the wild story 👇🏾👇🏾👇🏾

[Jesse Pujji @jspujji]

A 40 year old animator-turned-teacher bootstrapped a $35 website into a $1.5 BILLION exit.

The crazy part?

She almost lost it all.

This is an amazing story 👇🏽👇🏽👇🏽

[Nik Sharma @mrsharma]

One of the biggest mistakes brands make is spending money on PR teams that only get a small amount of eyeballs.

Here is how you should approach PR, and how it's led to over $20,000,000 in revenue for me.

You're going to learn about Performance PR in less than 3 minutes: 🧵👇

[Taylor Holiday @TaylorHoliday]

Average weekly FB spend dipped below year over year comp in the beginning of July for the first time since we have started tracking this data.

Panic?

Short FB stock?

Not yet.

Some thoughts…

[Jesse Pujji @jspujji]

Two mediocre students did everything wrong while taking $10,000 in credit card debt and turning it into a $67 BILLION company.

The crazy part?

They were profitable from day 1.

This is the wild story 👇🏽👇🏽👇🏽

[Basil @basiljose88]

@craigclemens Wow, that should be a lot more than a mac can handle. LOL.

[Basil @basiljose88]

@Apple Whoever is in charge of releasing the new MacBook Pro in July 2018, please come up with a solution for "people who have bought the MacBook Pro in June 2018 for 5K CAD and sorry Apple's hands are tied"