Puneet

Design & Product ✨ Story-teller ✨ Home Cook.
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[Dear Self. @Dearme2_]

Real talk.

[Race @multiplanet1]

Elon Musk got rejected by Netscape. He walked into the lobby, was too shy to talk to anyone, and walked out. Never got the job.

At his first company Zip2, the board demoted him. Twice. They refused to let him be CEO.

He got fired from PayPal as CEO while flying to his own honeymoon. The board voted him out mid air.

He almost died of malaria in 2000. Ten days in intensive care. Lost 45 pounds. A day from death.

His first child died at 10 weeks old.

His first rocket exploded. Falcon 1, flight one. Burned on the pad.

His second rocket exploded.

His third rocket exploded. The last of his money was nearly gone.

Tesla nearly went bankrupt in 2008. The closest he ever came to a nervous breakdown.

Both companies almost died on the same Christmas Eve.

He was sued by investors. Mocked by the people who built cars before him.

His childhood heroes, the astronauts who inspired him, testified against his company to Congress.

The Cybertruck window shattered on live stage in front of the world.

He overpaid for Twitter by his own admission and watched its value collapse.

He was beaten unconscious as a child and thrown down a flight of stairs.

He has said he goes to sleep alone and it kills him.

He failed in public, over and over, for thirty years.

He is the richest man in the history of the world.

The difference was never the absence of failure. It was the refusal to stop after it.

[Jaynit @jaynitx]

Elon Musk explains his 5-step algorithm for solving any problem:

"The most common mistake of smart engineers is to optimize a thing that should not exist."

"I have this very basic first principles algorithm that I run as a mantra."

Elon breaks it down:

Step 1: Question the requirements.

"Make the requirements less dumb. The requirements are always dumb to some degree, no matter how smart the person who gave you those requirements. You have to start there, because otherwise you could get the perfect answer to the wrong question."

Step 2: Try to delete it.

"Try to delete the part or the process step entirely. If you're not forced to put back at least 10% of what you delete, you're not deleting enough. Most people feel like they've succeeded if they haven't been forced to put things back in. But actually they haven't, they've been overly conservative and left things in that shouldn't be there."

Step 3: Optimize or simplify.

"The most common mistake of smart engineers is to optimize a thing that should not exist. So you don't optimize until after you've tried to delete."

Step 4: Speed it up.

"Any given thing can be done faster than you think. But you shouldn't speed things up until you've tried to delete it and optimize it otherwise, you're speeding up something that shouldn't exist."

Step 5: Automate.

"And then the fifth thing is to automate it."

Elon explains why the order matters:

"I've gone backwards so many times where I've automated something, sped it up, simplified it, and then deleted it. I got tired of doing that. So that's why I have this mantra."

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

The world is a cat playing with Australia

[Satya Nadella @satyanadella]

https://t.co/vLmiBKTtX3

[Puneet @flyingemini22]

@ShastriS12221 @WordsSlay @narendramodi Tbh looks a lot like Rahul and his jodo yatra

[Sahil Bloom @SahilBloom]

Be boring in the right ways. Go to bed early. Wake up early. Eat simple foods. Save money. Exercise. Read old books. Avoid drama. Boring is seriously underrated.

[Claude @claudeai]

Introducing Claude Design by Anthropic Labs: make prototypes, slides, and one-pagers by talking to Claude.

Powered by Claude Opus 4.7, our most capable vision model. Available in research preview on the Pro, Max, Team, and Enterprise plans, rolling out throughout the day.

[Blake Burge @blakeaburge]

A friend of mine used to say: “Show up on time, with a good attitude, and do what you said you’d do. That’s it. That’s 90% of winning in life." The older I get, the more I realize just how right he was.

[Puneet @flyingemini22]

@kadircalik @framer Formo

[Jil Theo @theo_jil]

Branding is how people see you.

Marketing is how they find you.

Sales is how you get paid.

Master all three.

[Puneet @flyingemini22]

@Suhelseth @AxisBank @RBI Not sure about their CEO but the #axisbankapp #UX definitely sucks

[Ja Leto @_falsi1ke]

To be happy you must eliminate two things: The fear of a bad future and The memory of a bad past.”

— Elon Musk

[Benji Taylor @benjitaylor]

“I’ll figure it out” has gotten me further than any plan I’ve ever made

[Wolf of X @WolfofX]

Sometimes you win by losing

[Reads with Ravi @readswithravi]

I’m in love with this sentence:

“Your future is shaped by the habits you repeat, not the goals you set.”

[Dr. Julie Gurner @drgurner]

@sangaldoo Life isn't kind to so many people. It's hard and it sucks. There is always a second chance, a third chance...a ninth chance. I hope people never give up.
As long as you are trying, there is always possibility.

[Sangeet @sangaldoo]

Met someone today and realized you just can’t disregard a person just because they didn’t have a successful career. So many sharp, knowledgeable people nowhere close to their potential. Not because of lack of ability. But because life wasn’t kind to them.

[Dr. Julie Gurner @drgurner]

The best thing you can do in life, is not squander it.
Do everything you want to do.
Solve the riddles of getting where you want to be,
Take risks, take the chance, and grab life by the throat.
You have one shot. Go get everything you want.

[Austen Allred @Austen]

Whoever figured out you could charge 5x retail if you “let” people pick their own berries is a genius