@JamesLucasIT Great post, though the key difference is that Augustus was fighting a elite-class problem, while today's birth rate collapse is happening across every social class globally.
@elonmusk True founder leverage isn't about doing all the work yourself—it's about building an environment where elite talent wants to build impossible things.
@LucaCaponeX The hardest part is that you’re building the “something that’s yours” while life is already happening. There’s no clean slate — just small steps squeezed into the spaces you can find.
Starting over later in life feels different.
You have more doubts than you did when you were younger.
But you also know yourself better.
So you stop waiting to feel ready.
You just start. 🌱
@Shida_aisales Proposing on a park bench where you used to share vending machine drinks, but pulling out a Graff diamond, is the ultimate romance flex.
@elonmusk Seeing a 16-story, heat-scorched stainless steel spaceship floating in the ocean next to a tiny tugboat looks straight out of a 1970s retro-futurism movie poster.
@elonmusk SpaceX out here making single-engine static fires look routine while the rest of us are still trying to figure out if our flight gets delayed.
@AlexHormozi The hardest part about putting on blinders and pulling tasks off the stack is making sure the stack isn't full of things that don't actually move the needle.
@InternetMuseum Tickets selling out instantly for a 350-year-old painting proves that the "Dutch Mona Lisa" still has better box office pull than most modern blockbusters.