This is extremely important to understand.
The birth rate you see in the West is the BLENDED number of ~90% who have a fertility rate half that of replacement and ~10% who have a birth rate double that of replacement.
Demographics is destiny.
Mark Steyn explains the stark demographic reality: a 90% population with 1.3 children per couple and a 10% population with 3.5 children will have roughly the same number of grandchildren in only two generations. The transformation is already underway.(2010)
>Be Elon
>Get bullied so badly as a kid that you end up in the hospital
>Escape into books
>Read more than 8hrs a day
>Teach yourself programming
>Sell a video game at 12
>Leave South Africa
>Sleep on couches
>Work odd jobs
>Get into America
>Build a startup
>Get fired from your own company
>Start over
>Build another company
>Merge it into PayPal
>Get removed as CEO
>Your company gets acquired
>Walk away with nearly $180 million
>Instead of retiring at 31, put almost all of it into three impossible ideas: Electric cars, Solar energy, Rockets
>People tell you you're insane
>Start a rocket company with no aerospace degree
>Learn rocket science from textbooks
>First rocket fails
>Second rocket fails
>Third rocket fails
>Divorce
>Public humiliation
>Cash running out
>One launch away from bankruptcy
>Launch anyway
>The fourth rocket reaches orbit
>NASA signs a contract
>Survive
>Tesla is weeks from collapse
>Save it at the last minute
>Get mocked for wanting reusable rockets.
>Land one.
>Then another.
>Then dozens.
>Turn science fiction into engineering
>Get mocked for betting on EVs
>Turn electric cars into status symbols
>Force the entire auto industry to follow
>Build the most valuable car company in history
>Launch astronauts into orbit
>Create a global satellite internet network.
>Buy Twitter
>Fire most of the staff
>Rename it X
>Walk into politics
>Risk your reputation
>Risk your companies
>Risk your fortune
>Become one of the most polarising people on Earth.
>Get attacked by the media, politicians, competitors, and activists
>Keep building anyway
>Become a TRILLIONAIRE
The Invisible Glass Experiment
Scientists once conducted a fascinating experiment with a pike and an aquarium.
They placed a transparent glass barrier in the middle of the tank. On one side was a large, hungry pike. On the other side swam several small fish.
As soon as the pike spotted the smaller fish, it launched itself forward to attack.
Bang! It crashed headfirst into the invisible glass and was thrown backward.
Undeterred, the pike tried again... and again. Each attempt ended the same way a painful collision. After repeated failures , its head became bruised and some of its scales were knocked loose.
Eventually, the pike gave up. It retreated to a corner of the tank, clearly frightened and defeated.
Then, the scientists quietly removed the glass barrier.
The small fish now swam freely around the entire aquarium some even passing right in front of the pike’s mouth.
But the pike never attacked again.
Even though it was starving, it refused to strike. In its mind, the invisible wall was still there.
A few days later, the pike died of starvation surrounded by abundant food it could no longer bring itself to eat.
This phenomenon is known as the Pike Effect (or Pike Syndrome).
It serves as a powerful metaphor for how repeated failures and setbacks can create invisible mental barriers that limit us long after the real obstacles have disappeared.
The difference between crypto OGs and tourists?
OGs survive.
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Dans le manifeste "techno-optimiste" de Marc Andreessen, il y a une phrase qui m'a marqué :
"Our enemies are not bad people – but rather bad ideas."
Nos ennemis ne sont pas des mauvaises personnes. Ce sont des mauvaises idées.
Prenons Jancovici. L'homme est brillant, sincère,
Intelligent systems are only as intelligent as their verifiers. Domains like math and coding have perfect verifiers, whereas writing and moviemaking don’t as they’re subjective.
In the short term, intelligence will stall at human levels in domains in which humans are verifiers.
Our Home Earth from the Moon
From the Moon’s surface, Earth rises as a brilliant blue sphere—our home glowing against the vast darkness of space. Swirls of white clouds drift over deep oceans and continents, creating a striking contrast with the Moon’s quiet, grey terrain.
In that distant view, everything we know—every life, every story—exists on that small, radiant world. While the Moon remains still and silent, Earth appears alive with motion and energy.
Seeing our planet from so far away reshapes perspective. It feels smaller, yet more valuable than ever—fragile, unique, and worth protecting.
Far away… yet forever home.
#nasa#space#spacex
Hello, Moon. It’s great to be back.
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