Elon Musk's first wife once described what it's like to watch him fail.
She said he doesn't react the way normal people react. When a rocket explodes, most people in the room go silent. Some cry. Some start calculating the financial damage.
Musk pulls out his phone and starts making calls. Not emotional calls. Engineering calls. "What failed. When can we fix it. When's the next launch." His voice doesn't change. His face doesn't change. The rocket that just cost $60 million is already in the past. The next one is all that exists.
She said it was the most unsettling thing she'd ever witnessed. Not because he was cold. Because he genuinely wasn't affected. The failure didn't register as failure. It registered as data. An experiment that produced results. Results that inform the next experiment.
This is why he wins. Not because he doesn't fail. He fails more spectacularly than anyone in history. He wins because failure occupies zero psychological space. It enters as data and exits as action.
Most people lose not because they fail but because they spend weeks processing the failure before acting again. Musk spends zero seconds. The gap between failure and next attempt is a phone call.
Enya.
Never married, never been in a relationship, no scandals, she lives alone in a Castle with her Cats, never had a concert , she doesn't use a phone.
She doesn't use social media
She is 64 and has sold over 80 million records.
She is Enya.
Update from grocery shopping in Dubai this morning.
Oranges from Australia, Egypt, Morocco, India, Turkey, China, Pakistan and Vietnam. And that’s just the citrus. Don’t even get me started on the apples.
Supermarkets are fully stocked. Supply chains are working exactly as they should.
How many of those pushing a “shortage” narrative get this kind of a range wherever they are tweeting from? Maybe it’s time shut up and stop the Dubai bashing.