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[Race 🕊️ @multiplanet1]

A SpaceX intern once described eating lunch next to Elon Musk in the company cafeteria.

The intern said Elon sat down at a regular table with a regular tray of food. No entourage. No reserved section. He sat next to two junior engineers who were clearly terrified. One of them was explaining a problem with a valve component to the other.

Elon listened without introducing himself or interrupting. After about three minutes he turned to the engineer and said "have you tried running it at a lower pressure gradient first." The engineer stared at him. Then realized the CEO of the company had just casually solved a problem his team had been stuck on for a week.

The intern said what happened next was the part that surprised him. Elon didn't leave. Didn't check his phone. He spent the next twenty minutes asking the engineers questions about their work. Not CEO questions about timelines and budgets. Engineering questions about fluid dynamics and material stress tolerances. He was genuinely curious. The cafeteria conversation was indistinguishable from a technical review.

The intern said he understood in that moment why people work 80-hour weeks for this man. Not because he's inspiring. Not because he pays well. Because he's the only CEO in the world who sits in the cafeteria and solves your engineering problem between bites of a burrito.

People follow leaders who are above them. People worship leaders who sit next to them and prove they understand the work better than the people doing it.

[433 @433]

How’s your 🎩 hat-trick ⁉️🇿🇦 @vouks

[Mesut Özil @M10]

What! A! Fight! 💪🏼🔥 We are one team - on and off the pitch. No matter what they say. 😎 #DieMannschaft #BestNeverRest #HereToCreate #GERSWE @woodyinho

[Brandon Stanton @humansofny]

“I’m from a small country in Africa called Benin. I won the visa lottery to come here. I didn’t even know I was eligible. My brother entered my name and didn’t even tell me. I was studying to be a psychiatrist at the time. I assumed that I’d be able to continue with.. "

[SULLY @risktakingsul]

boy hit the mario cart drift 😂 https://t.co/buLvz7lpp3

[devy 💕 @devinsimoneee]

The way this world works is beyond me. https://t.co/cC8ZHDcQgi

[Neil deGrasse Tyson @neiltyson]

His passing has left an intellectual vacuum in his wake. But it's not empty. Think of it as a kind of vacuum energy permeating the fabric of spacetime that defies measure. Stephen Hawking, RIP 1942-2018.

[camila @camila__vinson]

Someone answer the phone

[OneFootball HQ @OneFootballHQ]

Henrikh Mkhitaryan​'s journey to becoming a professional footballer is the most inspiring thing you'll watch all day 🙌

#MUFC #AFC

[omniboi @omniboi]

🏃🏿💎 Gucci * Gang 💎🏃🏿
@lilpump

[MachinePix @MachinePix]

Removing unripe tomatoes with an optical sorter.