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If you are still relying on your day job You are not independent You are not self reliant you are not prepared Start a side hustle and take a step toward freedom
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The one-sentence reality: Your ideal future, unbounded by limitations, captured in one sentence.
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Lack of experience stops people from sharing their knowledge when they could be helping someone.
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I am begging you to cultivate autonomy. You decide where your money goes - not your bank account You decide where your attention goes - not the media You decide where your body goes - not your body You decide where your agency goes. Not anyone else.
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“Of course he gets what he wants, he’s a billionaire” Yes. Those two things are true. But maybe he’s a billionaire because he can get what he wants.
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How Elon achieves the impossible:
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Followers on social media belong to the platform. You don't own your audience unless you bring them to a platform you own. Launch a substack, email list, or private community to give your audience a final destination.
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Lack of experience stops people from sharing their knowledge when they could be helping someone.
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I am begging you to cultivate autonomy. You decide where your money goes - not your bank account You decide where your attention goes - not the media You decide where your body goes - not your body You decide where your agency goes. Not anyone else.
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“Of course he gets what he wants, he’s a billionaire” Yes. Those two things are true. But maybe he’s a billionaire because he can get what he wants.
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How Elon achieves the impossible:
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Followers on social media belong to the platform. You don't own your audience unless you bring them to a platform you own. Launch a substack, email list, or private community to give your audience a final destination.
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Pursue your curiosities or become a drone.
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Dangerous Autonomy - The means to solve massive problems in service of your own vision as a result of relentless removal of dependencies.
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> Be Elon > Lives on $1 a day > Drops out of Stanford on day 2 > Sells Zip2 for $307M. Pockets $22M. > Realizes he could retire and never work again. keeps working anyway. > 1 month later - puts half the 22M into x.com which becomes paypal. > Sells paypal for $1.5B. Pockets $180M (8x last payout) > Realizes again he could retire. 8 times over. Still doesn’t. > Puts 100M of that into a new delusional rocket company before the ink is dry. > Fails 3 launches, company is on the verge of collapse, succeeds on the 4th. > Lands a reusable rocket that drops the cost to orbit from $55K/kg to $3K/kg. > Remains unsatisfied, builds an even bigger rocket and catches it out of thin air. > Remains unsatisfied, builds a factory to pump out 100s of rockets/yr. > Remains unsatisfied, builds launch complex to target 1000s of launches/yr. > Turns the launch complex build into a massive environmental restoration project. > Simultaneously orchestrates the mass-production of humanoid robots. > Simultaneously preparing to 10x the world's compute capacity with satellites. > Simultaneously releases hundreds of driverless taxis to drive people about autonomously. > Simultaneously builds a rocket-powered sports car that flies and flips “because it's cool” Elon made his bag 1000x over and still puts every dollar toward humanity’s future. Elon is dangerously autonomous.
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When you've already decided to lose is the celebration of being right even worth it?
Everything is a “get rich quick scheme” to chronically broke people.
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If one man can spend 30 years relentlessly pursuing a delusional vision of a multiplanetary future, you can spend 30 minutes figuring out what future you want to create.
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Figure out what you want. Ask yourself why you want it. Ask Why again. And again. And again. Keep asking why until you find yourself talking in circles. This is the path to actual clarity.
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Quality of life is limited by quality of sleep.
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