Jerry Sam

Sharing my thoughts and wisdom as I navigate through life’s journey | Learning, growing, and reflecting along the way.

[Jerry Sam @jerrysam]

My philisophy:

"Look good naked."
- probably Plato

[Ian Miles Cheong @ianmiles]

Marc Andreessen highlights why the people who work for Elon Musk echo the exact same sentiment as those who worked for Steve Jobs. Even after difficult interactions or a sudden departure, they inevitably report that they did the best work of their entire lives because they were pushed to their absolute limits.

What drives this intense environment is a demand for truth-seeking at all costs. People who criticize Elon often miss this fundamental trait. He genuinely wants to know the ground truth and has zero tolerance for anything else. When confronting bad news, he is absolutely ruthless and relentless in making sure he understands exactly what is actually going on.

This level of radical transparency is shockingly rare in the business world. The typical startup founder operates on forced optimism, constantly putting on a brave face, telling everyone to have faith, and promising that everything will be great just to keep talent from leaving.

Elon completely flips that standard script. He operates with pure urgency by simply telling the unfiltered truth, even when that truth is that the company will go bankrupt and die if they fail. In almost any other corporate environment, that level of blunt, existential dread would cause the talent pool to immediately bleed out.

But for the teams working under him, that brutal honesty acts as the ultimate catalyst. It strips away the corporate fluff and forces them to rise to the occasion, leaving them with the undeniable realization that, much like the engineers who built the first iPhone, they just completed the greatest work of their careers.

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

The goal of @SpaceX is expansion of consciousness to the stars so that we may understand what questions to ask about the answer that is the Universe

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Envy no man.

For what ever you see, a price was paid.

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@GregTomaselli @MarioNawfal Those with a vision flourish,
those without a vision perish.

[Jerry Sam @jerrysam]

You are not in a world.
The world is working through you.

You do not possess a life.
Life is working through you.

You are not in a universe.
You are the universe.
It's moving through you.

There is no past, present, and future.
The present moment is you.

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The more you try find yourself,
the more you get lost.

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Rain falls on the just and the unjust alike — it doesn’t discriminate between good or evil.

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@GregTomaselli Take no credit, take no blame.
Just focus on chief aim.

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Completed my @Workout_DAO challenge of 100 pushups, 100 squats & 100 sit ups…again.

Added 100 calories of ski-erg to make it a little spicy 🌶️.

Broke it up into 5 sets of 20 of each.

This is the actual speed I did the workout in 😉.

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Here’s @Workout_DAO challenge 4/15:
Complete 100 pushups, 100 squats and sit ups today and tomorrow.

Got the wifey, @AiTingWong to join me ❤️.

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Will be sharing my @Workout_DAO completed challenges here 😊

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Started the @Workout_DAO Accountability Challenge.

It’s been an absolute blast interacting with the community and engaging in friendly banter.

Completed 3/15 challenges so far.

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3/15
Climb 30 flights of stairs

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@YamilSenior Haha😂, Caligula, the OG fitness philosopher.

[Jerry Sam @jerrysam]

My philisophy:

"Look good naked."
- probably Plato

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@MarioNawfal $1,300 for a paper cup… wow

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5/ Fast forward: These economic forces still shape our world.

Why are some nations rich?
Why do some industries dominate?

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On a journey of summarising my Economics readings:

Economics isn’t just about money—it's about the choices we make every day. Behind everything from inflation to your morning coffee, there's an economic story.

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4/ Trade routes, technology, & governance helped some regions thrive while others struggled.

The seeds of global inequality were planted long ago.