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Adam Smith | Poetry | Business retweeted
Le génie entrepreneurial, ce n'est pas tout inventer : c'est avoir une vision, réunir les meilleurs talents, prendre des risques et transformer des idées en réalités industrielles. Musk n'a pas tout inventé, mais affirmer qu'il n'a rien créé est historiquement faux.
Adam Smith | Poetry | Business retweeted
Ron Baron is 83. In front of thousands of investors in New York, he looked at Elon Musk and asked the one question an 83-year-old asks.
"How do you want people to think about you?"
For the full hour before, it had been trillion-dollar chip fabs. Starship. Starlink. The business of the richest man alive.
Then Baron added, quieter: "Nobody would work the way you work just to accumulate money."
Elon paused.
"I'd like the reality to be that I made a significant contribution in the furtherance of civilization."
One sentence. Civilization.
And then, in the same room, he told them about Jose.
Jose is the guy in the meme. One man digging a hole in the road. Eight men standing around watching him dig.
"Unless you increase the number of Joses in the country, the amount of work done does not increase."
"I aspire to be Jose."
"We do actual work."
This from a man who lives in an Airstream parked next to his power plant in Memphis. Who pulls power cables "the size of an anaconda" with his own hands.
Asked how he wants history to remember him, he said civilization.
Asked who he wants to be, he said the guy with the shovel.
The richest man in the world wants to dig. 🇺🇸🚀
Bookkeeping From a Different Timezone Every Month prockstem.substack.com/p/boo…
The Snack Born From Leftovers That Conquered Four Continents plating.substack.com/p/the-s…
Ten doors, forty minutes each, one real finding per email. Why cold-emailing ecom stores fails on volume.
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Adam Smith | Poetry | Business retweeted
On 22 August 2006, the world's leading mathematicians gathered in Madrid for the Fields Medal ceremony. Four recipients were announced, but one was absent.
Grigori Perelman had refused the award.
His achievement was remarkable. In three preprints published between 2002 and 2003, he developed the mathematical machinery needed to establish the Poincaré conjecture, a problem that had resisted proof for almost a century.
Perelman's work, built on Richard Hamilton's Ricci flow.
Before the ceremony, International Mathematical Union president John Ball traveled to Saint Petersburg and spent two days trying to persuade him to accept the medal. Perelman remained firm.
Four years later, he also declined the $1 million Millennium Prize awarded for solving the conjecture.
As a math student, I find two aspects of this story especially striking. One is the depth of the mathematics: a topological question was solved through geometric evolution equations. The other is Perelman's refusal to let an award define his relationship with his work.
His decisions have invited many interpretations. His theorem needs none. The proof stands independently of the medals and money he chose not to accept.
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When Sales Collapse: A Zen Guide to the Worst Month prockstem.substack.com/p/whe…
The Potato Chip Was Not Invented by an Angry Chef plating.substack.com/p/the-p…
Toyota wanted the line stopped more often. Your first ecom hire needs that same authority, or nothing changes.
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Own store or marketplace? Rikyu served tea both ways. A five-step test to pick yours this quarter.
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Sen no Rikyu priced bamboo above gold. A five-step method for raising prices without apologizing for them.
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Adam Smith | Poetry | Business retweeted
March 2017. South Australia was still getting over a statewide blackout, and someone asked on Twitter whether Tesla could guarantee 100 MW in 100 days.
Elon's answer, word for word:
"Tesla will get the system installed and working 100 days from contract signature or it is free. That serious enough for you?"
As a skipper I've learned that in a storm, promises mean nothing and only what works counts. Elon put a price on his promise.
The clock started on Sept 29, 2017, when the grid connection agreement was signed. On Dec 1 the Hornsdale Power Reserve was feeding the grid. That's 63 days, with 37 to spare, and it was the world's largest lithium-ion battery (100 MW / 129 MWh). On launch night Elon said: "Talk is cheap. Action is difficult."
Now the part that gets me. In Q3 2026 alone, Tesla deployed 13.7 GWh of energy storage. That's about 106 Hornsdales in one quarter, more than one every single day. What made world headlines in 2017 is now a daily routine.
Megapack factories: Lathrop 40 GWh, Shanghai 20 GWh, and Megafactory Texas has started production with a planned 50 GWh a year.
This was never really about one battery. It's the master plan in action: solar plus storage plus electric transport, step by step until it's simply normal. In Elon's words that night: "Earth is itself a satellite. It's a satellite of the sun." And: "the faster we get there, the better."
Ise Jingu is 1,300 years old and none of its wood is. A four-column method for restarting after a store fails.
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Store Flipping: What the Listings Don’t Tell You prockstem.substack.com/p/sto…
The Cartoonist Who Couldn’t Spell “Dachshund” plating.substack.com/p/the-c…
Edo's firemen never fought fires. They chose what to lose first. That's how you survive a sales spike.
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How to Master Meta Ads With AI, the Zen Way prockstem.substack.com/p/how…