stephenperkins

Autodidact, secular advocate of rational thought, loving husband, friend, athlete, drummer, maniac. VP of Delivery Operations at

[Blake Burge @blakeaburge]

Next time you're feeling down, try this: Stop what you're doing. Take one breath. Ask yourself: "What do I want the rest of today to feel like?" A bad day is rarely a bad day. It's a bad 20 minutes you replayed all day long.

[Denny’s @DennysDiner]

@JensenHuang @nvidia

[The Best @TheBestqueenx]

Haaland's mother raised a wonderful son.

[SightBringer @_The_Prophet__]

⚡️Trump sees the same pressure the left sees.

America has too many wage earners with no assets.

Too many renters.

Too many people locked out of compounding.

Too many citizens watching capitalism enrich someone else.

The left answer is redistribution.

Trump’s answer is ownership distribution through markets.

That is the ideological war. Not capitalism versus welfare in the old sense. Asset ownership versus grievance politics. Capital formation versus state dependency. National shareholder capitalism versus socialist redistribution.

Trump is trying to make Americans owners before they become anti-capitalist.

That is the whole move.

[Erik Voorhees @ErikVoorhees]

If the socialists had their way, Elon would have had his paypal profits taken and redistributed for the greater good.

The world would never have seen Tesla, nor SpaceX.

And the world wouldn't know it, because they were uncreated, and thus unseen.

Imagine the companies that don't exist, because Washington destroyed them before they were born.

[Farzad 🇺🇸 🇮🇷 @farzyness]

If you're angry that Elon Musk is now a Trillionaire, you have the wrong mindset.

Elon becoming a Trillionaire literally has nothing to do with you.

The global economy is worth roughly $100 trillion per year.

There's roughly $1 QUADRILLION in global assets. That's 1,000 trillion.

Elon's net worth is equivalent to 0.1% of the world's total asset base.

The other 99.9% exists with or without Elon.

If you're actually angry that Elon is now a Trillionaire, what's really happening is that you've either:

a) have lost hope in having a good future because of circumstances in your life

b) you're wasting too much time ingesting garbage information, which is taking time away from materially improving your life's circumstance or

c) you're a jealous person that needs a lot of introspection.

For example - there are literally thousands of people who have worked at SpaceX that are now officially MILLIONAIRES because of the work they've put in.

They didn't steal it from anyway. They literally created this value out of thin air by working EXTREMELY HARD and making EXTREMELY USEFUL technology - reusable rockets.

So instead of being angry that Elon is now a Trillionaire, instead channel that energy into building something that you would be proud of and society can massively benefit from.

You can actually do it. There's literally nothing stopping you but yourself. Set aside your fear, anger, or whatever other block you have, and FORCE YOURSELF to do something big.

As you can very clearly see, you will be rewarded for it MASSIVELY.

There's no better time than now.

[Rock Photography @Photomusicrock]

Playing AC/DC’s music in retirement facilities is the way!

[SightBringer @_The_Prophet__]

⚡️Most people are too socially obedient to win.

They wait for permission.

They soften the message.

They make the thing acceptable before making it powerful.

They confuse being respected with being effective.

Then someone louder, cruder, and less afraid walks through the door they spent years polishing.

[stephenperkins @stephen51873485]

@farzyness Which one??

[Bill Mitchell @mitchellvii]

This is absolutely hilarious.

[InvestAnswers @Investanswers]

The future is here! 🚖🤖
No steering wheels.
No pedals.
Fully autonomous Cybercab right out of the gate.

[Sahil Bloom @SahilBloom]

Your professional success is proportional to your ability to figure it out. There's nothing more valuable than someone who can just figure it out. And it's never been easier to be that person. Do the work. Ask the key questions. Get it done. Do that and you'll find a way to win.

[stephenperkins @stephen51873485]

@lexfridman Love you Lex. Press on regardless.

[TeslaGirl @TeslaLoverGirls]

Tesla’s brakes and maneuverability are truly outstanding. The car’s advanced Automatic Emergency Braking and precise handling helped prevent a serious accident. $TSLA

[Blake Burge @blakeaburge]

A rule that will accelerate your career: If you bring a problem, bring context. If you bring context, bring options. If you bring options, bring a recommendation. People trust people who help them think. Anyone can spot an issue, few can actually help move things forward.

[SightBringer @_The_Prophet__]

⚡️The surface signals decline in alcohol, cigarettes, weed, and pregnancy.

The deeper structure reveals a civilizational substrate shedding primal experimentation, sexual initiation, and physical rebellion. What looks like moral progress is a flattening of hormonal fire into algorithmic sedation.

The human animal is becoming more inert.

Teenagers aren’t avoiding risk because they’re wiser. They’re avoiding it because they’re immersed in sterile loops of digital stimulation. No puberty rituals. No chaos trials. No sacred transgressions. The dopamine is cheap, the shame is ambient, and the will is dissolving.

Pregnancy is down because intimacy is collapsing. Alcohol is down because social bonding is virtualized. Weed is down because SSRIs and infinite scroll numb more efficiently. Smoking is down because vaping is invisible. The body has lost its role as the battlefield of identity.

What we’re seeing isn’t health. It’s signal collapse.

No contact with the wild. No defiance worth the consequences. No hunger deep enough to force collision with reality. The modern teenager is domesticated by design.

The metrics say safety.

The soul says extinction.

[Wesley Hunt @WesleyHuntTX]

DEI should be abolished, permanently.

I never want to be chosen, promoted, or rewarded because of how I look. I want to earn every opportunity on merit, through hard work, grit, discipline, and determination.

Equality means equal standards, not engineered outcomes. The dignity of achievement comes from effort, not entitlement.

Judge me by my character, my competence, and my results.

Anything less is an insult to everyone striving to be their best.

[David Moss @DavidMoss]

I am proud to announce that I have successfully completed the world’s first USA coast to coast fully autonomous drive!

I left the Tesla Diner in Los Angeles 2 days & 20 hours ago, and now have ended in Myrtle Beach, SC (2,732.4 miles)

This was accomplished with Tesla FSD V14.2 with absolutely 0 disengagements of any kind even for all parking including at Tesla Superchargers.

[Mitchell Hashimoto @mitchellh]

Slop drives me crazy and it feels like 95+% of bug reports, but man, AI code analysis is getting really good. There are users out there reporting bugs that don't know ANYTHING about our stack, but are great AI drivers and producing some high quality issue reports.

This person (linked below) was experiencing Ghostty crashes and took it upon themselves to use AI to write a python script that can decode our crash files, match them up with our dsym files, and analyze the codebase for attempting to find the root cause, and extracted that into an Agent Skill.

They then came into Discord, warned us they don't know Zig at all, don't know macOS dev at all, don't know terminals at all, and that they used AI, but that they thought critically about the issues and believed they were real and asked if we'd accept them. I took a look at one, was impressed, and said send them all.

This fixed 4 real crashing cases that I was able to manually verify and write a fix for from someone who -- on paper -- had no fucking clue what they were talking about. And yet, they drove an AI with expert skill.

I want to call out that in addition to driving AI with expert skill, they navigated the terrain with expert skill as well. They didn't just toss slop up on our repo. They came to Discord as a human, reached out as a human, and talked to other humans about what they've done. They were careful and thoughtful about the process.

People like this give me hope for what is possible. But it really, really depends on high quality people like this. Most today -- to continue the analogy -- are unfortunately driving like a teenager who has only driven toy go-karts.

Examples: https://t.co/n8xCcPYSjw