Charl Nel

Love ordinary but hate average. This is my personal twitter/view/s. #Sailing #Travel #SocialMedia #ExtremelyOpenMinded #Media

[Charl Nel @nelcharl]

@ElonVision30939 All 4 of that combined

[Charl Nel @nelcharl]

@Starlink @elonmusk
note for operation in South Africa : https://t.co/lcyWLJ3qtT

[Charl Nel @nelcharl]

@CyrilRamaphosa Fully agree - let the process unfold to its full conclusion and we know what the end result will be if it is based on reality - so allow it to run its course. Then we carry on and build further!

[Charl Nel @nelcharl]

@DailyInvestorSA One needs to ask if the overall long term damage was then worth it …. 🤷‍♂️ - Hopefully the SA Government is taking notes ….

[Charl Nel @nelcharl]

One needs to ask if the overall long term damage was then worth it … hopefully the SA government is taking notes ….

[Daily Investor @DailyInvestorSA]

Zimbabwe will return 67 farms seized from foreigners from four European countries covered by bilateral investment pacts, the country's agriculture minister said.
https://t.co/a0NubsJ295

[Charl Nel @nelcharl]

New virus on a ship (Andes Hantavirus). Three flown to SA; one reportedly died at OR Tambo.
Not in the mood for a Covid sequel. First a “bat,” now a “rat.” Next a “cow,” then a “dog,” then a “cat.”
What other three-letter creatures are lining up to tie us in knots?

[Charl Nel @nelcharl]

@Payoneer_Help @Payoneer Thank you, I will wait and see.

[Charl Nel @nelcharl]

Hello @Payoneer team - is this twitter/ X profile still managed / serviced? : @Payoneer_Help

[Charl Nel @nelcharl]

@Payoneer_Help @Payoneer Thank you I will wait and see.

[Charl Nel @nelcharl]

@Payoneer_Help @Payoneer there is also this nr with the nr above 260418 - 002209 #561987764

[Charl Nel @nelcharl]

@Payoneer_Help @Payoneer I have tried the support function on the website. I have tried social - I do not see the message function on your @Payoneer_Help profile on X. One of the several reference numbers are : 260419 - 002209 there are many others as well. @Payoneer

[Charl Nel @nelcharl]

@Payoneer_Help Is this channel
still
been serviced?

[Dustin @r0ck3t23]

Jeff Bezos wanted to be a theoretical physicist.

One afternoon at Princeton ended that dream in a single word.

Junior year. Top thirty in the honors physics track. He and his roommate spent three hours grinding on a single partial differential equation.

Two of the sharpest math minds at Princeton. Got absolutely nowhere.

They walked the problem down the hall to Yasantha. The smartest student on campus.

He stared at it for a moment.

Yasantha: “Cosine.”

Bezos asked how. Yasantha sat them down, wrote three pages of detailed algebra, crossed everything out. The answer was cosine.

Bezos asked if he had just solved all of that in his head.

Yasantha: “No, that would be impossible. Three years ago, I solved a very similar problem. And I was able to map this problem onto that problem, and then it was immediately obvious that the answer was cosine.”

Jeff Bezos: “That was the very moment when I realized I was never going to be a great theoretical physicist.”

He was not failing. He was top thirty at Princeton.

He quit because he saw what a natural gift looks like when you stand right next to it.

Three hours of grinding versus three seconds of pure recognition. That gap does not close with effort.

So Bezos pivoted. Not because he ran from physics. Because he finally ran toward the thing he was built for.

That story is about one man. The lesson is about eight billion.

For ten thousand years, the human economy has forced nearly every person on Earth to grind at their wrong equation. Not by choice. By survival.

You do not discover your cosine when rent is due Friday. You do not find your natural gift when the only question life allows is whether you make it to the next paycheck.

How many Yasanthas are stocking shelves right now. How many Bezos-level minds never got the luxury of a pivot because they could not afford to try.

We will never know. The system never gave them the chance to find out.

AI and robotics are about to break that system permanently.

When machines handle survival, work stops being a mandate and becomes a choice.

Most people hear that and picture humanity sitting still. They are projecting their own burnout onto the future.

Strip the survival mandate from work and you do not kill ambition. You purify it.

Every person alive has something they are unreasonably good at. Something that does not feel like effort. Something that pulls them forward the way physics pulled Yasantha.

Right now, most of those people never find it. They spend entire lives grinding at the wrong equation and never even know.

When every person in a field is there purely out of love, the quality of everything on Earth changes. Not by degrees. By something we do not have a word for yet.

Every doctor will be someone who would practice medicine for free. Every teacher will be someone born to stand in front of a classroom. Every scientist will be a Yasantha.

We are not heading for a civilization of idle humans. We are heading for a civilization of masters.

Bezos got to pivot because Princeton handed him the runway. The most elite environment on the planet gave him permission to walk away from the wrong equation.

Eight billion people are about to be handed that same permission.

Every person alive is carrying a cosine they have never been allowed to meet.

This is the generation that meets it.

[Charl Nel @nelcharl]

Worth noting :

[DogeDesigner @cb_doge]

A lot of misinformation from legacy media about Starlink’s entry into South Africa. Here’s the truth 👇

• ❌ “Starlink wants to bypass B-BBEE”
✅ False — it supports transformation via EEIP, a legal framework already used by companies like Microsoft, IBM, and Amazon Web Services.

• ❌ “Starlink is asking for special treatment”
✅ No — it’s asking for equal rules so ALL satellite operators can compete fairly.

• ❌ “EEIP is less beneficial than equity deals”
✅ Reality — Starlink’s plan would connect 5,000 rural schools with FREE high-speed internet, impacting millions of students every year.

• ❌ “It won’t create local impact”
✅ It will partner with local businesses, create jobs, and boost the economy (broadband growth = GDP growth).

• ❌ “It will become a monopoly”
✅ Impossible — Starlink operates globally in a competitive market across 150+ countries.

• ❌ “Security & privacy risks”
✅ It will fully comply with South African laws like every other country it operates in.

• ❌ “Starlink is already operating illegally”
✅ Wrong — it is NOT operating because it is still waiting for a license.

[Charl Nel @nelcharl]

@elonmusk Elon, can you not just switch it on and that South African in the rural areas just start to use it and if government tries to stop it you make a constitutional court case as the rights of rural people are diminished with not having it available. I am sure it is a win-able case.

[Charl Nel @nelcharl]

@Dillonxlatham You need a positioning / differentimatoin is key.

[Charl Nel @nelcharl]

@milichab @SpaceX @xai @JasonBud Inspirational!

[Charl Nel @nelcharl]

@elonmusk - note this - progressive rights will be taken away with the move to a more conservative world : https://t.co/XX8YTSBVqk

[Charl Nel @nelcharl]

@cb_doge Politics are crazy in South Africa - harming its own rural people …

[Charl Nel @nelcharl]

Another option for privacy but still close to the city …

[Roland Schoeman @Rolandschoeman]

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