Raool

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[Robert Sterling @RobertMSterling]

> you’ll never start a rocket company
> you’ll never build your own engines
> you’ll never be able to use off-the-shelf parts
> you’ll never survive three launch failures
> you’ll never reach orbit
> you’ll never win NASA’s trust
> you’ll never launch cargo to the ISS
> you’ll never compete with Boeing
> you’ll never compete with Lockheed
> you’ll never make rockets reusable
> you’ll never land a rocket vertically
> you’ll never land one on a drone ship
> you’ll never reuse a booster
> you’ll never fly the same booster 10 times
> you’ll never fly the same booster 20 times
> you’ll never fly the same booster 30 times
> you’ll never recover and reuse the fairing
> you’ll never lower launch costs
> you’ll never launch every month
> you’ll never launch every week
> you’ll never launch multiple times a week
> you’ll never carry astronauts
> you’ll never replace Roscosmos
> you’ll never fly civilians to orbit
> you’ll never manufacture satellites at scale
> you’ll never build the biggest constellation ever
> you’ll never make satellite internet work
> you’ll never make satellite internet fast
> you’ll never make satellite internet affordable
> you’ll never serve rural customers
> you’ll never serve aircraft and ships
> you’ll never build a methane rocket engine
> you’ll never make full-flow staged combustion work
> you’ll never build the most powerful rocket ever
> you’ll never build a rocket bigger than Saturn V
> you’ll never build it out of stainless steel
> you’ll never launch Starship
> you’ll never separate Super Heavy and Starship
> you’ll never relight Raptor in space
> you’ll never bring Super Heavy back
> you’ll never catch a booster with Mechazilla tower arms
> you’ll never launch 85% of mass to orbit worldwide
> you’ll never change the economics of space
> you’ll never force the entire industry to copy you
> you’ll never win
> you’ll never IPO

Congratulations to @elonmusk and the SpaceX team. You did what countless people said was impossible, and you did it time and time again.

Today is your day. You deserve this. May it be a glorious one.

[Raool @rahuldmv]

People will create versions of you in their head.
Some will make you better than you are.
Some will make you worse.
And no matter what you do, they will often hold on to the version
that serves their story the most.
Your job is not to spend your life managing someone else's imagination.
Your job is to remain honest about who you are.

[Reads with Ravi @readswithravi]

I'm in love with this sentence:

“If you can overthink the worst why can't you overthink the best.”

[Paul Graham @paulg]

The most important component of writing clearly is simply to have high standards for clarity. Then if you write something unclear, you notice, and ask: what did I mean to say? You can just keep doing this over and over. And if you have high standards for clarity, you will.

[Raool @rahuldmv]

@BernieSanders Does that mean ZERO taxes for anyone earning under $1 million a year?

[Reads with Ravi @readswithravi]

A peak life advice from Alex Hormozi:

“The single greatest skill you can develop is the ability to stay in a great mood in the absence of things to be in a great mood about.”

[Raool @rahuldmv]

@NYCMayor Want your grocery store to run like the DMV, Post Office, or Social Security?
Then support government control.
The rest of us prefer full shelves, smiling faces, and food that’s actually in stock — thanks to private competition.

[James Clear @JamesClear]

Life rarely changes in a positive way without an increase in responsibility.

That can mean taking ownership of your health or committing to a relationship or starting a business.

Whatever it is, if you want the trajectory to change, the amount of responsibility usually has to change.

[Sahil Bloom @SahilBloom]

Money advice nobody told you: The only way to make a lot of money is to create a lot of value. No one hands out money. No one is going to pay you just because they like you or think you're cool. That's not the way the world works. Money earned is a direct byproduct of value created. Create value, receive value. If money is the goal, value has to be the focus. This isn't just some vague idea: The only way to get rich is to create an enormous amount of value for others, and capture a small portion of that along the way. It's not talking about the thing, it's not brainstorming about the thing, it's not asking about the thing, it's not thinking about the thing. The only way to create value is by doing the thing. And if you don't know where to start, look around you. Customers, colleagues, bosses, shareholders, employees. Every single one of them has a problem. What problems can you solve for the people around you? Figure them out, solve them, scale that solution. That's how you make money.

[Robert Greene @RobertGreene]

You are your own worst enemy. You waste precious time dreaming of the future instead of engaging in the present. Since nothing seems urgent to you, you are only half involved in what you do. The only way to change is through action and outside pressure.

[Raool @rahuldmv]

@SuranaTarun @iNikhilsaini Lack of public trash bins isn’t the problem.
Tokyo has almost none on the streets, yet it’s one of the cleanest cities in the world. People simply carry their trash with them and dispose of it at home or their destination.
Cleanliness is a mindset, not an infrastructure issue. 🗑️

[Alec Torelli | Poker & Decision Making @AlecTorelli]

The purpose of writing isn't to click "publish" – it's to explore the depth of your own mind to better understand reality, how you think and why you think that.

You can outsource the final product to AI, but you can't outsource your own struggle with how you process information to come to your own conclusions via writing. (Although many will try).

Easy to get one shotted into thinking that something was somehow "created" here, but it's missing the forest from the trees.

[Raool @rahuldmv]

@KennyEdw @KonstantinKisin People obsess over individual tax returns, but forget the aggregate taxes contributed because of the billionaire. A billionaire-led company acts as a massive tax engine, generating billions via employee income tax and consumer sales tax that wouldn't exist otherwise.

[Raool @rahuldmv]

@Jason I’m in

[Your Best Version @YourPrimePath]

I fell in love with this quote:

"No matter your age, you'll always wish you started younger, but today is the youngest you'll ever be. So start today."

[Sahil Bloom @SahilBloom]

Something I’ve had to relearn again and again: Nothing changes if nothing changes. The new life you want doesn’t magically appear. It’s built through ruthless action. New habits. New mindsets. New standards. New boundaries. Reinvention has a cost of entry. Pay it with pride.

[Slim @onu_slim]

If your parents are 65 and above, please listen.

They are not going to tell you they are running out of time. That is not how they were built. They will wave you off, say they are fine, tell you not to worry, because they spent a lifetime protecting you from hard truths and they are still doing it now.

But time is not asking their permission.

Look closely the next time you see them, really look. The hands that once seemed so capable, the voice that used to fill a room, the eyes that still light up the moment you walk in, because you walking in is still, after all these years, one of the best parts of their day.

You are so busy becoming while they are quietly diminishing, and both things are happening at the same time and nobody talks about it.

The repeated stories are not a malfunction. They are what mattered most to them, they are trying to pass something to you before they go, so receive it.

One day you will be mid-sentence and suddenly remember the exact way they laughed, and it will stop you cold, and you would trade almost anything to hear it one more time in real time, not just in memory.

That day is coming, you do not know when.

So call, not when you have time, because you do not have time, nobody does, but call anyway, visit anyway, sit in the quiet with them and let it mean something.

Give them your presence while they can still feel it, not later.

Now.

[Blake Burge @blakeaburge]

Major cheat code for life: Don’t mourn the time you've lost, use the time you still have. Most people walk around haunted by a list of things they wish they’d done by now. They tell themselves it’s too late. It’s not. 6 months from now, it can still be a dream, or it can be real.

[Blake Burge @blakeaburge]

Underrated life hack: Build a “no matter what” habit. One thing you do every day regardless of mood, chaos, or excuses. Ten minutes of writing. A short walk. A chapter read. These become your anchors. The habit isn’t the point; who you become by keeping it is.