Elon Musk was asked why his companies move faster than anyone else.
His answer:
"I'm constantly addressing the limiting factor. Whatever the limiting factor is on speed, I'm going to tackle that. If capital is the limiting factor, I'll solve for capital. If it's not the limiting factor, I'll solve for something else."
He then said something most managers never figure out:
"If something is going really well and making good progress, there's no point in me spending time on it."
"The irony is if something's going really well, they don't see much of me. But if something is the limiting factor, they'll see a lot of me."
He spends his time entirely on whatever is blocking the next step.
Not on what's interesting. Not on what he's best at. But on whatever is the bottleneck right now.
Most leaders do the opposite... They gravitate toward what they're comfortable with and away from the hard problem.
From: @dwarkesh_sp and @collision
🚨 A SILENT SIGNAL IN THE MEDITERRANEAN
An Ohio-class SSGN surfacing off Gibraltar is not routine.
Add a Dry Deck Shelter…
Add special forces transfer…
And the picture becomes very clear.
This is not theatre.
This is preparation.
The Dry Deck Shelter exists for one purpose:
Covert insertion and extraction of elite units.
Underwater.
Unseen.
Undetected.
When assets like this are forward-positioned near a strategic chokepoint like Gibraltar…
It tells you something.
Operations are not just being planned.
They are being enabled.
These submarines are among the most capable platforms in the world:
• Cruise missile strike capability
• Covert surveillance
• Special operations deployment
They don’t move for show.
They move with purpose.
And when they surface…
It’s usually because something is already in motion.
While headlines focus on carriers and airstrikes…
It’s the quiet movements like this that matter most.
Because the real operations are rarely the ones you see.
They’re the ones you don’t.
@marcorubio America - Land of the brave. Land of the free.
No one needs islamofascists, armed to the teeth, forcing the world to comply to their stoneage version of reality.
Hard choices, easy life. Easy choices, hard life. I wish our politicians in Europe had more backbone and bravery.
Exiled Iranian calls out the useful idiots who marched against the imaginary "far right" in London.
Explains that the capital is already under sharia law via Sadiq Khan and Keir Starmer.
Says what's happening in Britain is how Iran fell 50 years ago, and he's had to flee London to get away from it.
Christopher Hitchens predicted back in 2009 that the term ‘Islamophobia’ would eventually be used to criminalize any speech that is critical of Islam.
The whole concept of Islamophobia is about implementing Sharia blasphemy laws in the West.
There are two battlefields: 1) the kinetic war against the West, which Islam cannot win; 2) the non-kinetic war against the West, which Islam is winning.
Islamic leaders, activists, politicians, and thinkers explained long ago that Islam will defeat the West in three ways:
1) by the womb of their women
2) via hijrah (migration), which the West is keen on helping via their orgiastic open borders policies
3) by using the West's miserable freedoms against us
They have screamed this repeatedly but we refuse to listen because of parasitic suicidal empathy.
People don’t buy coaching from you, not because they don’t see the value in you, but because they don’t see the value in themselves.
Once you change the value in themselves, they will believe they’re worth it, and then they’ll begin to improve themselves, and buy coaching from you.
That’s the great secret of selling coaching that nobody talks about.
- Alen