Paul Filla

[Race 🕊️ @multiplanet1]

A retired NASA engineer who had worked on the Space Shuttle program for 25 years was hired by SpaceX at age 62. He described the first week as the most disorienting experience of his professional life.

At NASA, a design change required 3 meetings, 2 committees, a review board, and 6 to 18 months of documentation. At SpaceX, his new supervisor said "if it works, build it. If it doesn't, change it by Friday."

He sat at his desk after the first day and called his wife. He told her he felt like a man who had been swimming with ankle weights for 25 years and someone just cut them off. He could move. He could decide. He could build something in the morning and test it in the afternoon. The constraint that he had accepted as the nature of aerospace engineering turned out to be the nature of bureaucracy.

Within 6 months he had contributed to more design iterations than he had completed in his last 5 years at NASA. Not because he was working harder. Because the time between having an idea and testing the idea collapsed from months to hours. The same brain. The same knowledge. A different operating system.

He described a specific moment where he proposed a modification to a Raptor engine component. At NASA, the proposal would have entered a queue. At SpaceX, the modification was machined by the end of the day and tested by the following morning. He watched his idea become a physical object in 18 hours. At NASA, 18 hours would not have been enough to schedule the first meeting to discuss whether to schedule a meeting.

He told an interviewer: "I didn't get smarter when I went to SpaceX. I got faster. The intelligence was always there. The system was in the way."

The difference between SpaceX and NASA is not talent. NASA has extraordinary talent. The difference is the time between a thought and a test. SpaceX compresses it. NASA elongates it. The same engineer produces 10x more at SpaceX than at NASA because the bottleneck was never the engineer. It was the meetings about the meetings about the work.

[X Freeze @XFreeze]

Bill Gates visited Elon at the Tesla Giga Texas factory and told him straight up: "It’s impossible to have a long-range semi-truck. It doesn’t work"

Elon replied: "We literally have them. Drive one yourself. Pepsi is using them RIGHT NOW"

Gates just kept saying: "No, it doesn't work"

Today, Tesla Semis are hauling cargo 425+ miles for one of the biggest companies on Earth

Imagine being this confidently wrong, refusing to accept reality, and somehow the media still sells him as a "climate expert" 🤡

[Nate Buss Hoop Talk @n8buss]

Pitt HC Jeff Capel & staff have put together a current Top-15 recruiting class with a pair of 2026 commits out of IMG Academy (FL):

4⭐️’s Chase Foster and Jermal Jones!

[SLAM HS Hoops @SLAM_HS]

OMG JERMAL JONES, THAT’S NASTY 🤬🔥

@JermalJonesJr0 @Top100Camp @TheNBPA

[Bryan Daugherty, CCI, CBI, SME @BWDaugherty]

https://t.co/G8vzWZWj46

[Paul Filla @paulfilla]

@Riley_Gaines_ ChatGPT: Gaines is not considered a “third-rate athlete.” She is a former competitive swimmer who competed at a high level in college. Gaines swam for the University of Kentucky, where she was an accomplished athlete, earning multiple All-American honors in NCAA competition.

[SLAM HS Hoops @SLAM_HS]

4⭐️ Jermal Jones just dropped 25 PTS hooping for Kenny Smith's EYBL squad!

@TheJetOnTNT @jetacademyeybl @NikeEYB

[Trent Markwith @TMarkwith14]

2026 G Jermal Jones has been contacted by the following programs so far:
Purdue
Florida
Michigan
Virginia Tech
South Florida
Marshall
Jacksonville
Cal State Fullerton

@JermalJonesJr0 @coach_agibbs

[Recruits Zone (Blake Smith) @recruitszone]

Top-60 2026 prospect Jermal Jones Jr. tells me that he has heard from the following schools since the initial contact period began:

Michigan
Cal Fullerton
Florida
Virginia Tech
USF
Marshall
Jacksonville

@JermalJonesJr0

[Legendary Productions @legendado727]

@JermalJonesJr0 skill + motor = ballin🏀 #highschool #Highlights #basketball @FHSAA

[Reg Burke ΦΒΣ🤘🏾 @BayAreaHoopsfl]

Make 5 Notes: Day 1 @hoop_feast

2026 6’5” G Jermal Jones (@JermalJonesJr0) of Bell Creek is starting the season off really well. Finishing with 24 pts against Thomas County Central. @CasinoPartyLLC

Jones is showing a lot of offensive activity especially around the rim. I see many more D1 offers in the near future @make5media

[Juanita Broaddrick @atensnut]

So that’s what this is. Biden’s hell on earth.

[Going Yard Legacy Series @gyardlegacy]

University of Louisiana head coach Tony Robichaux speaks on youth baseball and what it’s doing to many players at the next level.

[Joseph De La Nuez @JoDeLanuez33]

Great season came to an end. Not how we wanted it, but I would not change a thing! Here are my season stats. Getting ready for summer ball with Power Baseball.

[FGCU Softball @FGCU_Softball]

T3 | FGCU 3, KSU 0

Don't mind if we do

#WingsUp🤙🦅🥎

[FGCU Softball @FGCU_Softball]

T4 | FGCU 2, KSU 0

Quality AB by Roper brings home Filla. Eagles now lead by a pair!

#WingsUp 🤙🦅🥎

[FGCU Softball @FGCU_Softball]

T4 | FGCU 1, KSU 0

Safety squeeze to perfection. Eagles lead!

#WingsUp 🤙🦅🥎

[FGCU Softball @FGCU_Softball]

T5 | FGCU 2, KSU 0

Bunting is cool😎

#WingsUp 🤙🦅🥎

[FGCU Softball @FGCU_Softball]

B5 | FGCU 4, KSU 5

6-4-3 DP 💪

#WingsUp🤙🦅🥎