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.
🇲🇽🚨Ojos en México 👇🏻
Ya fueron identificados como miembros de la comunidad judía estos tres jóvenes que agreden a madre buscadora y a un reportero que salió en defensa de la señora.
Los tres tipos arrebataron la lona con el rostro de personas desaparecidas para CUBRIRSE de la lluvia.
When you eat Mexican food, your brain releases endorphins and dopamine. Capsaicin, the compound in chili peppers, binds to pain receptors in your mouth. Your brain reads this as a threat and counters with feel-good chemicals. The burn in a good salsa triggers the same pathway as a runner's high.
This is all happening on top of a food tradition more than 3,000 years in the making. The tortilla in a chicharron taco exists because of nixtamalization, a process Mesoamerican cooks developed roughly 3,200 years ago. Corn kernels are soaked in lime water, which releases niacin, a B vitamin that corn otherwise locks away in an indigestible form. Without this step, corn-heavy diets cause pellagra, a B-vitamin deficiency that killed around 7,000 Americans per year at its peak in the early 20th century. Southern sharecroppers were eating corn without the process Mexico had preserved for three millennia.
In 2010, the UN added Mexican cuisine to its Intangible Cultural Heritage list, the first year any national food culture had ever qualified. The application covered seed preservation, farming customs, ritual preparation, and thousands of years of cooking knowledge passed through communities.
The diversity inside that designation is hard to picture. Mexico has 59 varieties of heirloom corn, more than 60 distinct chili pepper types, and 32 states with cuisines different enough that Oaxacan mole negro (a dark sauce from dried chili and chocolate) and Yucatecan cochinita pibil (slow-roasted pork in a smoky red spice paste) share almost no ingredients. Oaxaca alone has more than 20 types of mole. Mole poblano uses more than 20 ingredients, including several chili varieties, dark chocolate, and cinnamon, in a single sauce.
Chicharron fires three systems at once. Fat carries flavor deep into the palate. The crunch comes from pork skin dried, then dropped in 375-degree oil. The trapped moisture turns to steam, puffs the skin, and produces thousands of flavor compounds through the same browning chemistry that makes coffee and seared meat smell incredible. Then the salsa lands capsaicin on top of everything and the dopamine kicks in.
The "best food ever" reaction has a chemical basis. You are tasting dopamine from capsaicin, browning chemistry from pork fat at high heat, and a tortilla built on a process 3,200 years old. These flavors were engineered to do exactly this.
picture this
8 of the world's biggest problems getting solved in the next 12-18 months
1. obesity: retatrutide phase 3 confirmed 30% bodyweight lost. 65% of patients no longer clinically obese. FDA submission late 2026
2. testosterone decline: FDA is expanding testosterone therapy. peptide and endocrine protocols going mainstream. the 1970 baseline is coming back.
3. birth rate crisis: embryo optimization commercially available today. scientists just rejuvenated aging human eggs in the lab. fertility is soon no longer a countdown
4. aging: Life Biosciences just injected the first reverse-aging drug into a human. Sinclair's oral reprogramming pill entering XPRIZE trials.
5. Alzheimer's: Retro Biosciences dosed the first humans with a pill that reactivates the brain's cellular cleanup machinery. Phase 1 results Q3 2026.
6. cancer: daraxonrasib nearly doubled survival in pancreatic cancer. RAS has been undruggable for 40 years. they drugged it.
7. mental health: psychedelics got a presidential executive order. Compass weeks from the first FDA approval of psilocybin.
8. heart disease: inflammation replacing cholesterol as the primary target. the root cause is finally being treated not the symptom.
every single one of these has a clinical trial or an FDA action behind it right now
humanity is slowly healing
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you have no idea how much better it is getting
just this week:
- a child was successfully implanted after embryo screening for IQ in the 99.99th percentile. the default human is already being upgraded
- the first ever reverse-aging drug was injected into a human. Life Biosciences by @davidasinclair , so it begins
- Sinclair also announced plans to test an oral reprogramming pill in the $101M XPRIZE. whole-body rejuvenation. a pill you swallow
- Retro Biosciences raised new funding at a $1.8B valuation
- @newlimit announced its first medicines headed to the clinic. Brian Armstrong's $3.1B longevity bet is moving from lab to human
- Junevity published PNAS research validating transcription factor modulation can reverse cellular aging. first-in-human trials starting H2 2026
- retatrutide phase 3 confirmed 70 pounds lost on average. no plateau. bariatric surgery territory from a weekly injection
this is just week one of June 2026
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