cobbman

Family man. Software Engineer. Outdoor adventurer. Mindset is key.

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Peter is not correct about me in this case.

I have always known that dangers from Earth will also pose dangers to Mars. Obviously so. However, the immense difficulty of traveling to Mars means that there is a much higher likelihood of mitigating risks originating from Earth.

A clear example of major risk reduction would be a deadly pandemic. Since it takes 6 months to reach Mars, there is an automatic 6 month quarantine!

Even traveling at the speed of light, a deadly computer virus or AI attack can potentially be stopped due to Mars being ~4 to ~20 light-minutes from Earth.

This doesn’t mean that a Mars civilization eliminates all risk, but it absolutely greatly reduces the risk of consciousness being extinguished.

Moreover, Mars is a stepping stone to extending consciousness broadly within our solar system and ultimately to millions of stars within our galaxy, which would extend the probable lifespan of consciousness as we know it by many orders of magnitude.

That said, what I personally find most motivating is not the risk reduction aspect of extending life beyond Earth, but rather the inspiring nature of exploration and being out there among the stars!

Perhaps we will meet aliens or find the remains of long-dead civilizations that lasted millions of years …

[cobbman @william_cobb]

Whoa

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Robot fights are fun 😂

[Steve Li @st3v3li]

@steipete WTF is graph!

[cobbman @william_cobb]

Yesssss!

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Starship still tracking to fly tomorrow

[cobbman @william_cobb]

Work hard at being smart, then be smart at working hard.

[cobbman @william_cobb]

@MrBeast 250000

[Dr Jordan B Peterson @jordanbpeterson]

To the Americans:

I've travelled all over the world. I've familiarized myself with many places, and met many people. And I'm a Canadian, although I’m privileged to reside once again in the States.

And here's something I've noticed, and it’s a key element of America's continuing greatness:

You bloody Americans value success, and you believe in its existence.

This is something that doesn't really happen anywhere else in the world. Even in other free democracies—the United Kingdom; Finland, Sweden, and Norway; Australia, New Zealand and Canada; Germany, France, and the Netherlands (great countries all)—a counterproductive cynicism too often reigns.

Success is equated with exploitation.
Ambition is looked upon with contempt.

This happens sometimes in the United States too—particularly among the miserable progressives, who confuse their resentment, ingratitude and unearned skepticism with wisdom.

But in your great country, by and large, striving is admired and success celebrated.

This means that more people strive and succeed in the US than anywhere else. And it's increasingly obvious. You remain stunningly more innovative and productive than any people anywhere else on the planet.

And so I say, as all should who are fortunate enough to live in the western world, let alone America:

Thank God for the United States.

Thank God for the wisdom of its founders.
Thank God for its faith in the free market and in the natural rights of man.
Happy birthday, you damn Yankees and Southerners.

Long may your admirable country dominate the world.

Long may your freedom and hope provide an example to those suffering everywhere at the hands of their malevolent states.

May your two and a half centuries of unparallelled success be just the beginning.

Your country is the light of the world, and the city on the hill.

Thank God for the USA.

Happy 250th.

Dr. Jordan B. Peterson

[The White House @WhiteHouse]

I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America, and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.

[Nick shirley @nickshirleyy]

🚨 Confronting the Co-Sponsors of the Stop Nick Shirley Act:
Under bill AB 2624, this video would be illegal. All an “immigration support service provider” would need to do is give you a paper saying you cannot post the video, and you would face a minimum $4,000 fine plus court costs and attorney fees.

CHIRLA the co-sponsor of this bill, has received over $80,000,000 in taxpayer dollars to help illegal immigrants. It does not allow public entry into its building and is rumored to be tied to the cartels.

When I tried to speak with a employee, they all fled and closed the building. What do they have to hide while using taxpayer funds to operate?

This is why they need this bill to pass so they can shield the public from looking into California’s corruption.
EXPOSE IT ALL.

[Nick shirley @nickshirleyy]

Expose so much fraud and a government so corrupt they have to make a law to try and stop you

Welcome to Califraudia

[Bryan Johnson @bryan_johnson]

We fill our days mostly on things that are trivial next to what we ultimately care about. We know, deep down, however, that in the noise of it all, health is easily forgotten until it’s the only thing that matters.

We spend a fraction of our lives truly sober to the preciousness of life. We feel it when someone we love dies, when a child is born, when we come close to death ourselves, or when a diagnosis marks our limit. In those moments, we are sobered, and the rarity of it all becomes self evident. Imagine the existence we’d build together if that clarity didn’t fade.

I wish all of you the very best. Care for yourself, care for others, care for the planet and care for our animal friends. Care for life as it’s the most precious gift there is.

[cobbman @william_cobb]

100%

[Codie Sanchez @Codie_Sanchez]

As I get older I’ve realized
- Going to sleep early is a dream
- Less drinking is better
- Having kids is a blessing not a fear
- Being married is the best
- Work you love is life
- Conservatives had it right

[cobbman @william_cobb]

Yes

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

In the future, a trillion times a trillion dollars will be spent on making antimatter to travel to other star systems

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Amazing abundance for all!

[cobbman @william_cobb]

Cool

[SpaceX @SpaceX]

SpaceX has exercised the option to acquire @cursor_ai in an all-stock transaction with the goal of building the world’s most useful AI models.

For the past few months, SpaceXAI has been jointly training a model with Cursor, which will be released in Cursor and Grok Build soon.

We look forward to working closely with the Cursor team to advance our frontier AI capabilities

[cobbman @william_cobb]

Awesome

[@levelsio @levelsio]

📈 I made a dynamic page on my new vibe coded blog to keep track of my project success hit rate live

https://t.co/51TBDWYc3e

I have about an 8% hit rate over all my projects in my life (and I've included like every thing I did ever almost)

It's not perfect cause you can't classify everything completely properly but I tried!

Also interesting if you only count new launches (eg new projects) you see activity build up rapidly around 2014 and stay somewhat stable since then, meaning I keep trying to create new projects and by trying I kind of force luck to find something that works

I also added a live revenue chart so you can quite strongly see the relation between shipping more and getting more hits and then more revenue

I think the difference of me before 2014 and after was that before I simply didn't try as many things, and after 2014 and still now I try an average of 5 new projects per year

92% fails but 8% becomes a success!

https://t.co/51TBDWYc3e

[cobbman @william_cobb]

@Codie_Sanchez SMB. Thanks

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

These are all common sense!

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Good Starship highlights video

[DHH @dhh]

You can’t outwork the whole world. There’s always going to be someone somewhere willing to work as hard as you. Someone just as hungry. Or hungrier.

Assuming you can work harder and longer than someone else is giving yourself too much credit for your effort and not enough for theirs. Putting in 1,001 hours to someone else’s 1,000 isn’t going to tip the scale in your favor.

What’s worse is when management holds up certain people as having a great “work ethic” because they’re always around, always available, always working. That’s a terrible example of a work ethic and a great example of someone who’s overworked.

A great work ethic isn’t about working whenever you’re called upon. It’s about doing what you say you’re going to do, putting in a fair day’s work, respecting the work, respecting the customer, respecting coworkers, not wasting time, not creating unnecessary work for other people, and not being a bottleneck. Work ethic is about being a fundamentally good person that others can count on and enjoy working with.

So how do people get ahead if it’s not about outworking everyone else?

People make it because they’re talented, they’re lucky, they’re in the right place at the right time, they know how to work with other people, they know how to sell an idea, they know what moves people, they can tell a story, they know which details matter and which don’t, they can see the big and small pictures in every situation, and they know how to do something with an opportunity. And for so many other reasons.

So get the outwork myth out of your head. Stop equating work ethic with excessive work hours. Neither is going to get you ahead or help you find calm.

[The Outwork Myth — It Doesn't Have To Be Crazy At Work, 2018]