Larry Oglesby

Consultant / Advisor

[Sovey @SoveyX]

What really happened after the State Dinner.
The lost Xi camera roll has been found.

[🎸 Rock History 🎸 @historyrock_]

"I think young people need to start thinking what kind of world they're going to leaving to me and Keith Richards"

- 93-year-old Willie Nelson

[MOON @DailyMoonX]

Absolutely breathtaking view!
Earth and Moon as one…

[Dustin @r0ck3t23]

Elon Musk just explained how Starlink moves the GDP of entire nations.

The formula is so simple it should embarrass every development agency on the planet.

Musk: “GDP is a function of average productivity per person.”

Productivity per person goes up. GDP goes up. That is the whole equation.

Everything else is decoration.

And connectivity is the single largest lever on Earth for pushing that number.

Musk: “If you don’t have access to the internet, or it’s too expensive or low bandwidth, you cannot access the MIT lessons and you can’t sell the goods and services that you produce.”

No internet means no global knowledge. No global markets. No ability to sell to anyone beyond your village or learn from anyone outside of it.

The penalty is total. And it has nothing to do with the person serving it.

There is a child alive right now who is as intelligent as anyone who has ever walked the halls of MIT.

She does not know it. Nobody around her knows it. Because the coordinates of her birth have no connectivity. No library. No signal. No link to the world that would show her what she is.

She will grow old inside a ceiling that geography built for her. Not because of talent. Not because of effort. Because of a satellite that had not been launched yet.

Musk: “Internet connectivity is certainly a candidate for one of the things that would do more to lift people out of poverty than anything else.”

Traditional infrastructure takes decades. Fiber has to be laid. Towers have to be built. Permits have to be approved. Capital has to be attracted to regions that cannot attract it.

Starlink bypasses all of it from orbit. No cables. No permits. No waiting for a government to prioritize your village. A dish goes up. Isolation ends.

Someone who could not access a textbook yesterday downloads MIT’s entire curriculum today. Someone who could only sell to neighbors starts selling to the planet tomorrow.

That is not an upgrade. That is a different life.

Musk: “Starlink will actually move the GDP of countries. Like it’s gonna be that kind of thing.”

He said it like a feature update. But read it again.

Move the GDP of countries. Not a company’s revenue. Not an industry’s output. The gross domestic product of nations. Shifted by one constellation.

The telecom industry spent decades deciding which regions were profitable enough to connect. The rest were written off. Starlink does not make that calculation. It covers the planet. Every farmer. Every welder. Every kid with a clear view of the sky.

The minds that will cure diseases, solve energy, and build things we cannot yet name are already alive. They are already thinking.

They have no signal.

Starlink is the first technology in human history that can reach them at the speed of deployment instead of the speed of bureaucracy.

And when those minds come online, they will not change their own lives. They will change the trajectory of the species.

That is what Musk actually built. Not a telecom company. The largest unlock of human potential ever launched from a single network.

[Dustin @r0ck3t23]

Jensen Huang just reverse-engineered why Elon Musk operates at a speed no one on the planet can match.

Three traits.

The first is deletion.

Huang: “He has the ability to question everything to the point where everything’s down to its minimal amount.”

Most engineers solve problems by adding.

Musk solves them by subtracting.

Every part. Every process. Every assumption that survived because no one had the nerve to kill it.

He picks it up. Asks if it’s load-bearing. If the answer is anything less than absolutely, it is gone.

Not simplified. Not optimized. Removed.

What survives is the skeleton. The bare physics of the problem. Nothing between intent and execution.

Huang said it plainly.

As minimalist as you could possibly imagine.

And he does it at system scale.

Not at a product level. Not at a department level.

Across entire companies. Entire industries. Entire supply chains.

He strips a rocket the same way he strips a meeting. Down to the load-bearing walls and nothing else.

The second is presence.

Huang: “He is present at the point of action. If there’s a problem, he’ll just go there and show me the problem.”

Not a Slack message. Not a report filtered through four layers of people who weren’t there when it broke.

He walks to the failure. Stands over it. Puts his hands on it.

Most executives have never seen the actual problem their company is trying to solve.

They have seen slides about it.

Read summaries of it.

Formed opinions about it in rooms that are nowhere near it.

Musk stands over the broken hardware and does not leave until it works.

That collapses the distance that buries most organizations.

The gap between something breaking and the person with authority to fix it actually understanding what broke.

In most companies, that gap is weeks.

For Musk, it is hours.

The third is the one that bends everyone around him.

Huang: “When you act personally with so much urgency, it causes everybody else to act with urgency.”

Every supplier has a hundred customers. Every vendor has a dozen priorities. Every manufacturer has a backlog stretching months into the future.

Musk makes himself the top of every single one of those lists.

Not by demanding it. By demonstrating it.

When the CEO shows up at your facility at midnight. When he is moving faster than your own internal team. When his timeline makes yours look like a suggestion.

You do not put him in the queue. You rearrange the queue around him.

Huang watched this up close.

Huang: “He does that by demonstrating.”

Not by asking. Not by negotiating. Not by leveraging a contract clause.

By moving so fast that everyone else’s normal pace feels like standing still.

Three traits. Strip everything down. Show up at the failure. Move so fast the world rearranges around you.

That is not a management philosophy.

That is why one man runs six companies while entire boards cannot keep one moving.

[The Motley Fool @themotleyfool]

We have no idea:

- what the market will do next
- where interest rates are going
- how the Fed will react
- when the next recession will hit

Neither does anyone.

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Western Civilization is doomed, unless the core weakness of suicidal empathy is recognized and actions are taken that are hard, but necessary for survival

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

For the first time in human history, renewable energy has overtaken coal as the largest source of electricity generation worldwide.

Wind turbines and solar panels now produce more energy than coal-fired plants, marking a pivotal moment in the global transition to clean energy.

This milestone reflects decades of investment, technological advances, and political will. Solar panels have become more efficient and affordable, while wind energy has scaled to massive offshore farms. Together, they are reducing reliance on fossil fuels, lowering carbon emissions, and helping mitigate climate change.

Experts see this as a turning point for the planet. While coal will not disappear overnight, the momentum of renewable energy proves that sustainable, scalable alternatives are feasible. This milestone gives hope for a future where energy is clean, abundant, and environmentally responsible.

[The Motley Fool @themotleyfool]

You’re not investing in stocks.
You’re investing in the ability to walk away from anything.

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

A massive renewable energy project in China, involving an investment of nearly $11 billion, is underway.

This project, located in Kubuqi desert, Inner Mongolia, will include an 8-gigawatt solar farm and other renewable energy installations.

[The Motley Fool @themotleyfool]

High income won’t make you rich.
Low ego and high savings will.

[StripMallGuy @realEstateTrent]

“I appreciate that you do what you say you’re going to do.”

It’s great to hear, but also when you stop and think about:

Literally saying “here’s what I plan to do” and then just doing it, is a huge differentiator.

The bar is pretty low, friends.

[Interesting things @awkwardgoogle]

Ozzy Osbourne's Crazy Train on a xylophone is proof why every school needs a fully funded music program

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

That is the acid test

[Katie Pavlich @KatiePavlich]

“The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money.”

-Margaret Thatcher

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

This has to be one of the greatest film scores.

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

‘Bird’s eye view’

[The Extreme Music Enthusiast @TheExtremeMusi1]

"I had three doctors who told me — 'If you keep going like this, I won't give you six months.' I buried all three of them."

— Keith Richards

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

This is just the tip of the iceberg