In order to be born, you needed:
2 parents
4 grandparents
8 great-grandparents
16 second great-grandparents
32 third great-grandparents
64 fourth great-grandparents
128 fifth great-grandparents
256 sixth great-grandparents
512 seventh great-grandparents
1,024 eighth great-grandparents
2,048 ninth great-grandparents
For you to be born today from 12 previous generations, you needed a total of 4.094 ancestors over the last 400 years
Pause for a second and really think about this…
How many hardships did they survive?
How many silent battles did they fight?
How many tears did they wipe away?
How many moments of joy did they celebrate?
How many love stories began so that yours could one day exist?
How many dreams for a better future were whispered into the dark?
All of it…
just so you could be here, alive, in this moment
We could burn 18,000 kg of coal directly to generate as much electricity as a 38kg solar panel.
Or, we could use it to produce ~13,000 kg of met grade silicon and use that to make more than 6,000 of those panels.
Full Self Driving is literally the greatest technology I’ve ever used
Period
I get 2 hours back of brain power every day to focus on my business while my car drives me
You have legit no idea until you use it what a game changer it is
No way I can go back to regular driving
It takes about 1-2 months of confusion, feeling lost, and being on the verge of giving up for the right amount of vision to form where you have absolute clarity and launch into a new way of life.
There is something you can do for 30-60 minutes a day that will move the needle toward the life you want (and get more results than those who work 12-16 hours a day), but you have to find what that something is through obsessive experimentation.
It used to be a flex to say how big your team was and how much venture capital you've raised.
Now, it's a flex to say how few employees you have and how little you've raised.
I like that X makes you work a little bit to form your own view
The news isn't laid out on a platter like it is with the corporate media, which makes it too easy to outsource your thinking