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[Paul Graham @paulg]

How to Earn a Billion Dollars: https://t.co/WeWBUkKym6

[Elonogy @ElonogyX]

Elon Musk: “My mind often feels like a very wild storm. I have a fountain of ideas. I have more ideas than I can possibly execute, so I have no shortage of ideas.

Innovation is not the problem, execution is the problem. I’ve got an entire design for an electric supersonic vertical takeoff jet, but I just can’t do that as well. I’ve had that for 10 years.

I think to some degree I was born this way, and then it was amplified by a difficult childhood. I can remember, even in the happy moments when I was a kid, that it feels like a rage of forces in my mind, constantly. Now this productively manifests itself in technology and building things for the most part. I think on balance the output has been very productive.”

[Restore Halifax @RestoreHalifax]

Gad Saad explains suicidal empathy and its destructive effects on society.
https://t.co/Pp2DEi9yRh

[Dustin @r0ck3t23]

Elon Musk said something that should keep every person on this planet up at night.

Musk: “I think we need to assume that life and consciousness is extremely rare, and it might only be us.”

13.8 billion years of physics. Trillions of galaxies. Billions of trillions of stars.

And one planet opened its eyes.

One.

The universe ran for nearly 10 billion years before anything looked up and asked what it was.

10 billion years of stars forming and dying with no one to witness any of it. No one to name it. No one to wonder why.

Then we showed up.

And for the first time in the history of everything, the universe had a witness.

Musk: “The image in my mind is of a tiny candle in a vast darkness. A tiny candle of consciousness that could easily go out.”

That’s not a metaphor. That’s a status report.

Stars don’t know they burn. Black holes don’t know they consume. Galaxies don’t know they spiral.

We do.

We are the only part of the universe that has ever experienced it.

Every law of physics we’ve uncovered was already running. Silently. For billions of years. With no one to find it.

We didn’t create meaning. We’re the first thing that could recognize it was missing.

That’s what makes Musk’s point so much deeper than most people realize.

He’s not arguing that humanity matters because we’re special.

He’s saying we might be the only reason “mattering” is a concept at all.

Without consciousness, the universe still runs. Stars still burn. Planets still orbit.

But none of it means anything.

Not because it’s meaningless.

Because meaning requires a mind.

And there might only be one.

Musk isn’t building rockets because he likes engineering.

He’s building them because he realized the only thing that ever gave the universe a name has a single point of failure.

One asteroid. One war. One century of wrong decisions.

And the witness goes silent.

The atoms keep moving. The physics keeps running.

But nobody is there to call it anything.

The universe doesn’t end.

It just goes back to not knowing it exists.

The most profound thing about what Musk said isn’t that the candle is small.

It’s that without the candle, there’s no such thing as darkness either.

[淘沙者(TheSandPicker) @Etudecn]

这段马斯克 2003 年在斯坦福的 45 分钟闭门演讲，真的有点东西。
不是那种空话连篇的创业鸡汤。
而是他亲自把“怎么从 0 搞出一家公司”一层层拆给你看。
更狠的是，
他没在讲概念，直接把自己当时手里那三家公司，到底怎么活下来的，整个过程都摊开了。
这种内容放到今天看都不过时。

很多人听完的反应都很统一：
这 45 分钟，顶得上你翻十本创业书。
那种真正能用的干货，往往就藏在这种老素材里，不吵不闹，但句句都是实战。

[Race @multiplanet1]

Elon Musk's first wife once described what it's like to watch him fail.

She said he doesn't react the way normal people react. When a rocket explodes, most people in the room go silent. Some cry. Some start calculating the financial damage.

Musk pulls out his phone and starts making calls. Not emotional calls. Engineering calls. "What failed. When can we fix it. When's the next launch." His voice doesn't change. His face doesn't change. The rocket that just cost $60 million is already in the past. The next one is all that exists.

She said it was the most unsettling thing she'd ever witnessed. Not because he was cold. Because he genuinely wasn't affected. The failure didn't register as failure. It registered as data. An experiment that produced results. Results that inform the next experiment.

This is why he wins. Not because he doesn't fail. He fails more spectacularly than anyone in history. He wins because failure occupies zero psychological space. It enters as data and exits as action.

Most people lose not because they fail but because they spend weeks processing the failure before acting again. Musk spends zero seconds. The gap between failure and next attempt is a phone call.

[ThinkingWest @thinkingwest]

Nothing will shape your worldview as much as simply reading how humans from the past thought.

You realize very quickly that our time is a radical anomaly in human history.

[DCP @Dcpcooks]

The first ten min carry the best message I’ve heard in a long time

[Rand Group @randgroup]

The 2017 to 2021 setup looked exactly this clean too:

Double top, retest of prior ATH, accumulation range, then vertical.

The reason most people will fade it isn't because the pattern is wrong. It's because watching $60,000 chop sideways for nine months breaks more conviction than a 70% drawdown ever did....

Source: @CoinvoTrading

[Killa @KillaXBT]

Nobody knows what happens on the 5th of every month.

So I will show you,

For the past 9 months, you could have countered every bullish/bearish narrative, and been right every single time.

Start paying attention. It lines up with the other $BTC pivots I’ve been posting.😉

[LP @LP_NXT]

bitcoin:native

Different cycle, same pattern.

~750 days after the halving has consistently marked a top, leading into the next phase of the bear market.

From there, price typically transitions into the final capitulation before the bottom, which historically unfolds over a 100–170 day window.

That would imply roughly 3–5 months remaining before a bear market bottom forms.

May 11th...

[Jaynit @jaynitx]

Elon Musk explains his 5-step algorithm for solving any problem:

"The most common mistake of smart engineers is to optimize a thing that should not exist."

"I have this very basic first principles algorithm that I run as a mantra."

Elon breaks it down:

Step 1: Question the requirements.

"Make the requirements less dumb. The requirements are always dumb to some degree, no matter how smart the person who gave you those requirements. You have to start there, because otherwise you could get the perfect answer to the wrong question."

Step 2: Try to delete it.

"Try to delete the part or the process step entirely. If you're not forced to put back at least 10% of what you delete, you're not deleting enough. Most people feel like they've succeeded if they haven't been forced to put things back in. But actually they haven't, they've been overly conservative and left things in that shouldn't be there."

Step 3: Optimize or simplify.

"The most common mistake of smart engineers is to optimize a thing that should not exist. So you don't optimize until after you've tried to delete."

Step 4: Speed it up.

"Any given thing can be done faster than you think. But you shouldn't speed things up until you've tried to delete it and optimize it otherwise, you're speeding up something that shouldn't exist."

Step 5: Automate.

"And then the fifth thing is to automate it."

Elon explains why the order matters:

"I've gone backwards so many times where I've automated something, sped it up, simplified it, and then deleted it. I got tired of doing that. So that's why I have this mantra."

[kache @yacineMTB]

you can outsource your thinking
but you cannot outsource your understanding

[Jaynit @jaynitx]

This video is literally 50 entrepreneurs giving you an MBA in 18 minutes:

[Keith Alan @KAProductions]

We now have two potential patterns developing on the $BTC chart.

One resolves bullish...

The other bearish.

The top of the Bear Flag has confluence with:
• Macro Trend Line
• 21-Week SMA
• Q2 2025 Timescape

If it validates, a measured move points to a price target in the mid $40s.

The rim of the Cup & Handle has confluence with the:
• March 2026 high
• April 2025 Double Bottom
• 100-Day SMA

If it validates, a measured move points to a price target at $87.5k which has confluence with the:
• Yearly Open Timescape
• 200-Day SMA

Only one of these patterns can validate. The one that does invalidates the other.

Which pattern do you think will validate in the coming weeks?

[Arkham @arkham]

THE US GOVERNMENT IS SELLING BITCOIN

The US Government just moved $606.47K to Coinbase Prime. This BTC was seized from the Bitfinex Hacker Ilya Lichtenstein.

Will they sell the stolen BTC on Coinbase?

[BRICS News @BRICSinfo]

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