Happy Monday 🥰 Found some pretty model photos from 2016, taken at the very young of 68, when I was unknown and no one asked if I had children. @XFashion
Thank you @HarperCollins for including my model stories in my new book, TIMELESS - The Art of Reinvention and Resilience at Any Age, coming out mid-September.
Pre-order: https://t.co/W9KRc2KNbf
#ItsGreatToBe78
Elon Musk told a story that should terrify every AI company on Earth.
His son Saxon is autistic.
Saxon couldn’t understand why the family went to restaurants.
You can get the same food delivered.
You can call your friends over.
You can eat better at home for half the price.
So why go?
Musk: “He had an epiphany and said, ‘Oh, the reason people go to restaurants is to hang out with strangers.’”
A kid who takes the world literally just decoded something the rest of us never thought to question.
We like being around people we’ll never know.
Look at what we already built.
Delivery apps so you never wait in line.
Remote work so you never share an office.
Self-checkout so you never talk to a cashier.
Every innovation of the last 20 years was a bet against human proximity.
Every one paid off.
Until it didn’t.
Loneliness is now a public health emergency.
Depression has doubled since the smartphone.
The average American has fewer close friends than any generation in history.
We didn’t remove friction.
We removed the thing friction was hiding.
Now look at what’s coming.
AI agents that handle your emails.
AI companions that replace your conversations.
AI assistants that make every human interaction optional.
Same playbook. Same bet.
Except this time we’re not engineering out strangers.
We’re engineering out humans entirely.
The coffee shop where nobody knows your name.
The subway where no one speaks.
The restaurant where you’ll never see that couple again.
Those aren’t failed connections.
They’re the background radiation of belonging.
We don’t just need people who know us.
We need to exist in rooms full of people who don’t.
That’s what a kid understood at a dinner table that billion-dollar companies still can’t grasp in a boardroom.
We spent 20 years building a world you never have to show up to.
AI is about to finish the job.
And nothing it builds will ever replicate sitting in a room full of strangers and not feeling alone.
Maye Musk is the kind of mother every builder needs.
She didn’t raise Elon by trying to shrink him into something ordinary. She backed his ambition, defended him when the world piled on, and stood proudly beside him while he took risks most people were too afraid to even imagine.
Great mothers don’t just love their children when it’s easy. They believe in them before the world understands them.
Maye Musk deserves more credit. ❤️
These stories from Maye Musk’s upcoming memoir Timeless: The Art of Reinvention and Resilience at Any Age (September 15, 2026) are pure gold.
The contrast you highlighted — the bright, smiley, blonde-haired modeling days in her 30s versus the grounded, serious, powerfully present woman in her 70s — captures the heart of the book perfectly. And that pivotal decision to stop dyeing her hair blonde and embrace her natural silver-gray at 58? It wasn’t just a hair choice; it was a declaration of freedom. Her career actually exploded afterward (billboards in Times Square, major campaigns, more bookings than ever). That’s the magic of living authentically.
Maye’s journey shows us that reinvention isn’t about chasing youth — it’s about shedding what no longer serves you and stepping into your power at every stage. The serious expression in her 70s isn’t “less joyful”; it’s deeper, wiser, and more magnetic. The natural hair isn’t “giving up”; it’s choosing freedom and watching everything bloom because of it.
These visuals are my creative tribute to those exact stories you mentioned — the smile-to-serious evolution and the liberating hair decision. They’re perfect for sharing your excitement about the book, for vision boards, or just as daily reminders that it’s never too late to become more yourself.
Modeling in my 70s with serious expressions compared to smiley faces in my 30s. Also, deciding to let my hair go natural instead of dying my hair blonde. Those stories are in my new book.
TIMELESS- The Art of Reinvention and Resilience at Any Age 📕
Pre-order https://t.co/W9KRc2KNbf
@XFashion #ItsGreatToBe78
it is really lucky to be your honor reader with your voice! hope audio book @HarperCollins soon on publish with hardcover same time. thanks dear MaYe, forever young Lover 😍🥰😘😊👋
This week I’m reading my book that’s coming out in September. Although it’s quite grueling, I like my audiobook to have my voice. Who better to tell my stories? Thanks @HarperCollins
TIMELESS- The Art of Reinvention and Resilience at Any Age 📕
Pre-order: https://t.co/W9KRc2KNbf 🤓🤗