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[Drew Van Boeschoten @DrewVanB]

@TSNJR Remember it like yesterday. We were seated beside Bert and Eugene at the bar. Eugene was on the phone most of his time there ensuring this fan was taken care of and told us more about it later. What a gentleman for doing that. We got a great photo with Eugene later too. ♥️

[Michael Rittenhouse @Rittentweet]

@twitandrewking A lot more people smoked then.

[Drew Van Boeschoten @DrewVanB]

@twitandrewking In high school I got to go to the German Studio where is was filmed at Bavaria Movie Studios (they also did Das Boot and Enemy Mine there). They had Falkor there and showed us how they filmed the boy riding him, etc. was a great experience almost 35 years ago now.

[Film News Nostalgia @FilmNewsNos]

🎬MOVIE HISTORY: 16 years ago today, March 12, 2010, the movie ‘Green Zone’ opened in theaters!

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[Drew Van Boeschoten @DrewVanB]

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[Cady Coleman @Astro_Cady]

🚀#OTD 12/29/1980: #Space #ShuttleColumbia made the slow trek (top speed 1 mph) from @NASA's Vehicle Assembly Building to @NASAKennedy's Pad 39A. The first orbital-bound shuttle was officially one step closer to making history with its maiden flight in 1981!
#space

[The Royal Canadian Legion @RoyalCdnLegion]

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[Startup Archive @StartupArchive_]

Marc Andreessen on what makes Elon impossible to compete with

“I’m not aware of another CEO who operates the way he does.”

Marc believes you have to go back in history to the industrialists of the late 1800s and early 1900s to find founders comparable to Elon Musk (e.g. Henry Ford, Andrew Carnegie, Thomas Watson, Andrew Mellon, Cornelius Vanderbilt).

“Those guys ran very similar to the way Elon runs things… The top line thing is just this incredible devotion from the leader of the company to fully, deeply understand what the company does, to be completely knowledgeable about every aspect of it, and to be in the trenches and talking directly to the people who do the work to deeply understand the issues. And then be the lead problem solver in the organization. Basically what Elon does is he shows up every week at each of his companies, identifies the biggest problem the company’s having that week and he fixes it. He does that every week for 52 weeks in a row and then each of his companies has solved the 52 biggest problems that year.”

Marc juxtaposes this process with more conventional CEOs who respond to problems with planning, meetings, and reports.

The other crucial factor in Elon’s success that Marc points to is his ability to attract incredible talent:

“Many of the best people in the world want to work with him because if you work with Elon the expectations are through the roof in terms of your level of performance. And he is going to know who you are and what you’ve done. He’s going to know what you’ve done this week and if you’re underperforming. And he may fire you in the meeting if you’re not carrying your weight. But if you are as committed to the company as he is, and hard working and capable, many people who have worked for him say that they had the best experience of their lives.”

Marc recalls a famous line from somebody who joined SpaceX from another aerospace company and said, “It’s like being dropped into a shocking zone of competence. Everybody around me is so absolutely competent.”

And lastly, as Marc argues, Elon’s technical ability is another competitive advantage versus non-technical CEOs:

“When he identifies the bottleneck, he goes and talks to the line engineers who understand the technical nature of the bottleneck… He’s not asking the VP of Engineering to ask the Director of Engineering to ask the manager to ask the individual contributor to write a report that’s to be reviewed in three weeks. He doesn’t do that. What he does is he goes and personally finds the engineer who actually has the knowledge about the thing, and then he sits in the room with that engineer and fixes the problem with them. And again, this is why he inspires such incredible loyalty from especially the technical people who he works with. They’re just like, ‘Wow, if I’m up against a problem I don’t know how to solve, freaking Elon Musk is going to show up in his Gulfstream and he’s going to sit with me overnight in front of the keyboard or in front of the manufacturing line and help me figure this out.’”

Video source: @ChrisWillx (2024)

[Sarah Wright-Gilbert (she/her) @sarahmwgilbert]

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[National Air and Space Museum @airandspace]

60 years ago today, Gus Grissom and John Young launched on Gemini 3, the first crewed mission of the Gemini program—so named because each mission featured two astronauts (Gemini meaning “twins”).

During the five hour mission, they orbited the Earth three times.

[Cady Coleman @Astro_Cady]

#OTD 2/20/1962: #Mercury #astronaut John Glenn became the first American to orbit the #Earth aboard #Friendship7. He circled the Earth 3 times in just under 5 hours: https://t.co/K8FgIxbdAf
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[Gene Simmons @genesimmons]

Nick Simmons and Evan Stanley. Check this out. Amazing.

[Gabriel Pizza @GabrielPizza]

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[Drew Van Boeschoten @DrewVanB]

I can't believe my @bagelottawa is sold out of Sesame bagels! That's like McDonald's being out of hamburgers!

[Drew Van Boeschoten @DrewVanB]

Thank you @kissottawa for the opportunity to play Needy or Greedy! I will be donating part of my winnings, tomorrow, to Make A Wish at our company's annual fundraiser. Perfect timing!

[NASA History Office @NASAhistory]

Gus Grissom became the second American to fly to space #OTD in 1961 in the Liberty Bell 7 spacecraft. During his 15-minute suborbital flight, G forces reached a peak of 11.2 during re-entry.

Things got even more fun after splashdown. https://t.co/QKmPwof4uh