Dear owiemfoɔ ba, December is a season, not a destination. The lights will go off, the music will fade, and life will continue. If you don’t earn like them, don’t spend like them. True wisdom is spending according to your income,There is life after December,plan for it.
2007A 36-year-old Elon Musk sits down for a quiet PBS interview and says, almost casually:
“The most important thing we can do for the future of consciousness is to become a multi-planetary species… Everything else pales in comparison.”
He then predicts, with zero hype:
•Fully reusable rockets that land like airplanes
•Electric cars that outperform gasoline in every way and go mass-market
•Solar + batteries becoming the cheapest energy on Earth
•Humans on Mars and a self-sustaining city there
Jeff Bezos was already the richest man on Earth in 2007. He started Blue Origin in 2000 with the exact same “multi-planetary” dream.
18+ years later:
Blue Origin has flown exactly zero orbital missions. New Glenn still hasn’t launched. No reusable booster has ever landed. No Mars plan with dates.
Elon?
•Falcon 9 boosters have landed 400+ times
•Starship (bigger than anything ever built) is flying
•Tesla sells 2 million cars a year and is worth more than the rest of the car industry combined
•Solar + batteries are now the cheapest electricity source in history
•First uncrewed Starships to Mars: 2026–2028. Crewed: late 2020s/early 2030s — exactly the timeline he gave in 2007
The vision never wavered. Not once.
The enthusiasm is the same calm, burning conviction you hear in that 2007 clip today.
The determination? He went personally bankrupt in 2008 keeping SpaceX and Tesla alive with his last dollars.
Almost 20 years later, every single “crazy” prediction from that interview is either already reality or on schedule.
This is what relentless execution looks like.
Watch the 2007 interview (25 minutes that aged like fine wine):
He didn’t just dream about the future.
He scheduled it. And showed up.
@Balingolucas@NSMQGhana I was the best student of my year group and I'm still very good at solving high school science and maths problems, but I would have made a terrible contestant because in those days I was slow and timid! 😂😂😂
Newly enrolled student at the Yaa Asantewaa Girls’ Senior High School visibly distraught, after trimming her hair as part of school enrollment requirements.
Recently called Esquires could champion a class action to permanently abolish the forced hair trimming of SHS girls. That’s an impactful, historic win; rather than just posting pictures!
*sigh
Every time this conversation comes up, an army shows up in my mentions with the same tired lines: “It helps them focus.” “It makes them less attractive to predatory men.” “It disciplines them.”
Meanwhile, girls are still harassed, struggle in class and can be truant if they want.
And schools that allow braids, puffs, locs and all, shockingly, still produce excellent students.
Because the issue was never hair.
This rule is archaic. We treat it like sacred tradition because it’s easier than asking why it exists and whether it serves girls today.
And years later we wonder why women’s confidence is tangled up in their hair; why some spend fortunes trying to “fix” what we taught them was wrong; why so many don’t know how to care for their natural hair as adults.
From childhood, we told them their very texture is a problem.
Let’s update the rules: allow neat, healthy natural hair; teach hair care as part of hygiene, how hard is that?