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[David Senra @davidsenra]

Dana White on why he doesn’t believe in introspection:

“If you just sit around and talk about your fucking problems all the time it actually makes it worse.

I never take in any negativity.

I literally block it out.

I block all the noise out.

Like these guys who report on what we're doing that have no clue on what we're doing?

Why would I want to hear anything they have to say?

They're zeroes.

They've literally never done anything in their life, especially in this business.

Why would I listen to anything that they have to say?”

CC @pmarca

[Living Christian @livechristian1]

a lot can happen in 3 days.

[Dustin @r0ck3t23]

Elon Musk just explained why the best engineers on Earth will never take your call.

Three reasons.

Most companies fail all three.

Elon Musk: “State what’s the mission, what’s the problem we’re trying to solve? And just be clearly willing to pour a lot of blood, sweat, and tears into it.”

The top one percent of talent does not care about your office. Your perks. Your free lunches. Your branded hoodie.

They care about one thing.

Does this matter.

If the answer takes more than one sentence to explain, they are already gone.

Musk broke motivation into three layers.

The first is the work itself.

Musk: “Somebody’s got to look forward to coming to work in the morning. Are they enjoying the work itself intrinsically?”

Not the paycheck. Not the title. The work.

Solving problems most people cannot even frame correctly. Alongside people who make you sharper just by being in the room.

If Monday morning feels like a sentence, no salary commutes it.

The best people leave. Not eventually. Within months.

The second is money.

Musk: “They also feel like they will receive fair financial compensation. Like that the financial rewards are good and fair.”

Not charity. Not below-market equity with a four-year cliff.

Fair.

One word. Most companies still get it wrong.

The engineer who knows exactly what they generate does not negotiate. They compare.

When the gap gets wide enough, they vanish. No conversation. No counteroffer window. Two-week notice on a Friday afternoon.

You do not cap the ceiling of someone producing at that level. You match it. Or you fill the desk again in six months.

The third is the one that separates real companies from forgettable ones.

Musk: “For the best people in the world, they’ll want to know: is what they’re doing going to matter? If they spend 10 years doing this, will it make a difference to the world?”

Ten years.

The best engineers on the planet are running a calculation no recruiter has a spreadsheet for.

If I give this company a decade of my life, does the world look different because I did?

If the answer is no, they are not coming. No signing bonus changes that. No recruiter pitch rewrites it. No equity package papers over it.

The mission has to be real. And the person at the top has to be visibly bleeding for it.

Musk: “Be clearly willing to pour blood, sweat, and tears into it.”

Talent watches the founder before they read the offer letter.

If the person running the company is coasting, optimizing for exits, playing it safe, the best people sense it before the first interview ends.

They do not want a manager. They want someone who has bet everything and would do it again tomorrow.

Most companies post a job.

The ones that land the best people alive offer something no job listing can contain.

The work has to be the reward. The money has to be fair. The mission has to be worth a decade of someone’s only life.

Miss one and the person you needed most never even opened your email.

[Holy Bible @Holy__Bible1]

Proverbs 16:9

[Dima Zeniuk @DimaZeniuk]

“I was absolutely obsessed with Truth. The obsession with truth is why I studied physics. Physics is just... what are provable truths of the universe.”

— Elon Musk

[Teslaconomics @Teslaconomics]

Being lonely is often the price of real success.

And this isn't bc you think you’re better than anyone, it's bc the path you’re on starts to look very different from the path most people around you are on.

When you start leveling up in life - whether it’s building something, investing, mastering a craft, or chasing a big vision - your world begins to change. The things you think about, the risks you take, the problems you’re trying to solve… they’re not always the same problems the people around you are focused on anymore.

Conversations change.
Priorities change.
Mindset changes.
Life changes.

Sometimes the environment you once felt comfortable in just doesn’t fit or hit the same way anymore.

To others it may come off as arrogance, but the reality is this is just what happens when growth starts pulling you in a different direction, into a different level.

Always remember, the higher you climb in anything, the smaller the crowd gets.

At the base of the mountain, there are millions of people. But as you go higher, fewer and fewer people are walking that same path. Eventually you reach a point where there just aren’t many people around who truly understand the pressure, the sacrifices, or the moves you’re making.

This naturally creates the distance.

And the truth is, real success usually requires a level of focus and sacrifice that most people simply aren’t willing to make.

I'm talking hardcore discipline, early mornings, late nights, missing out on things, saying no to comfort in order to build something bigger, tripling down on yourself when others are telling you you're crazy. Time and energy are limited, so the people who reach extraordinary levels often spend years pouring everything into their goals.

That's what makes you feel isolated.

On top of that, when success starts to show up, like $ money, attention, influence, you also become more careful about who you trust.

Not everyone around you is there for the right reasons.

So your circle often becomes smaller, tighter, and more intentional.

Loneliness is part of the journey.

True success is the person you have to become to build and sustain something meaningful. And that person has to be comfortable walking alone. You have to be able to trust your own direction even when the crowd doesn’t understand it.

If someone needs constant approval, constant company, cares what others think, or constant validation from people who don’t see the vision, it becomes very hard to keep moving forward.

But the people who do break through learn to treat those quiet stretches as part of the process.

And the interesting thing is… if you keep going, you eventually find new people who are climbing too.

People who think big. People who understand the sacrifices. People who are building their own mountains.

But you only meet them if you’re willing to keep going.

So yes, many times success will feel lonely.

But just remember, loneliness is just a signal that you’re growing, moving forward, and stepping into a version of yourself that fewer people are willing to become.

[Shawn Ryan Show @ShawnRyanShow]

Elon Says Education is Backwards. 🤯

@ethanrthornton
@elonmusk

[Rubin Patterson @Rubin_LP]

#python people, how did you get your start and what was your first project/app?

[The Bible @The__Bible7]

Romans 12:12

[DogeDesigner @cb_doge]

SpaceX will be the most valuable company humans have ever built.

On Earth and beyond.

[Teslaconomics @Teslaconomics]

The one financial advice you need to live by to be successful

[Teslaconomics @Teslaconomics]

I literally have everything I’ve ever made in life behind this one man.

I fell deeply in love with the products he built and he inspires me everyday.

And I plan on keeping it that way bc he has NEVER let me down in the long run.

His name is Elon Musk.

[Naruto @NarutoNolimits]

Love him or hate him, no one else on earth is catching 440,000 lbs of falling metal

[Mindset Machine  @mindsetmachine]

Talk to yourself like a champion 🏆

[Mindset Machine  @mindsetmachine]

Learn to accept this and everything will change 🫶

[Teslaconomics @Teslaconomics]

#1 rule in investing, never bet against Elon Musk

#2 rule in investing, don’t forget rule #1

[Bible 365 @Bible365_]

God got you.

[Naruto @NarutoNolimits]

Elon Musk: if you want a better future, take action today

[DHH @dhh]

So much of the software that people are forced to use at work is a miserable slog. A wasteland of complexity where more cruft accumulates with every enterprise sale made. It feels like our moral obligation to bring a little sunshine and color into that dreary world.

[aka @akafaceUS]

It never gets old.