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Amazo retweeted
this is insane. i genuinely don't understand why ambitious people aren't shown this lecture before their careers start consuming their entire lives.
clayton christensen spent his career studying why successful companies collapse. in his final class, he asked students to apply the theory to themselves: if you keep allocating your time the same way, what life are you actually building?
he had already seen the answer in his own harvard mba class. everyone looked successful at the fifth reunion; by the 10th, 15th, 20th, and 25th, many were unhappy, divorced, and living far from their children.
work shows you the score immediately. close a sale, ship a product, finish a presentation, earn a promotion, get paid.
an hour with your child may produce nothing you can measure today; it may take 20 years to understand what that hour built. so the next free hour goes back to work, one rational decision at a time.
this is how people build lives they never planned: through hundreds of right decisions that lead in the wrong direction, day after day.
money, titles, and headcount are easy to count. christensen believed a life should be measured by the people who became better because you were there.
he died in 2020.
one question remains: if someone saw only where your time, energy, and attention went this year, what would they think actually mattered to you?
the full 19-minute lecture is in the video below.
Amazo retweeted
"I am still alive tonight, entirely thanks to one man. Loek Hartog stopped instantly with no flag marshalls or fire crews in sight, and risked his own life to get me out of the car."
"I don’t remember anything between 30 seconds before the crash and 1 hour after it, but I will remember his incredible act of bravery for the rest of my life..."
"I’m laying here tonight with 5 broken ribs, broken collar bone, broken hand and finger and a bruised lung, but it could have been much worse."
"Thank you Loek. I owe you my life for your selfless act today."
Amazo retweeted
Actually smart, gets the heart rate up and helps practice rolls and falls, and creating a community.
Directly targets three things (cardio, falls, loneliness) that are a special plague to the elderly
Amazo retweeted
Charlie Munger once said - “Lee Kuan Yew is the greatest nation builder to ever live.”
This 6 minute will explain you why:
Amazo retweeted
说个暴论，看不懂牛来的爆火，你就很难理解现在的年轻人和我们身处的这个时代。
《牛来》的爆火，根本不是什么抽象梗的胜利。
是一对普通母子，用 5 年笨功夫，
徒手把精英们堆了几十年的影视行业高墙，砸穿了。
全片没有专业团队：儿子包揽导演、建模、剪辑，60 后的妈妈做编剧、配音，俩人在家纯手搓了 5 年，总成本 1500 块，之前他们家是开装修公司的。
上映头 9 天总票房才 7000 块，发行朋友劝他们别上，结果现在全国院线连夜加场，年轻人跨城几十公里开车去打卡。
大家买票进场，根本不是去看一部制作精良的动画，大家是去给 “普通人也能把名字挂上大银幕” 这件事投票。
这片子最狠的科普是：电影审查根本不收钱，不管你建模多崩、画面多卡，只要合规就能上 —— 把作品搬上全国院线的门槛，从来不是精英们说的那样高不可攀。
这届年轻人的狂欢，本质上是对 完美精致 的集体造反。
AI 越来越强了，它给你标准的表达、高效的生成、零瑕疵的结果，所有东西都在往精致、正确、无懈可击的方向卷。
人反而开始本能地反向跑：我们爱卡顿、爱失误、爱笨拙、爱那些带着缺口、不合逻辑、活生生的粗糙感。
在一个机器能生产所有完美答案的时代，不完美”反而成了人最硬的证明。
大家捧《牛来》，捧的不是那部崩得离谱的动画，是那个不端着、不装精英、用 5 年死磕的普通人，是在告诉所有把门槛抬得高高的人：
墙没有那么高，普通人笨一点、慢一点，也能砸开。
这绝逼是今年中国电影最摇滚最炸裂的的一个里程碑事件，我敢说 100 年以内不会有人能超越！！！
尤其是在 AI 盛行的今天，依旧有老抽象家坚持手搓制作，我把最精华的 100 秒分享给大家，这不比什么韩红，冯小刚烧了几十亿演员片酬的烂片好看 1000 倍？？？
一部叫《牛来》的 3D 动画，导演一个人包了编剧、建模、配音所有活，全程没用 AI，纯手搓，总成本 1500 块。
零宣发零预告直接上架，头 9 天票房才 7169 块，
被骂是 3D 新手入门作业，建模崩、动作卡，
画面抽象到没边。
结果这个周末直接反向爆了！！！
昨天一天票房直接从 7000 多干到 40 万，翻了 60 多倍。
去看的人说全场笑到拍大腿，牛一叫整个影院都在乐，
抽象到极致反而成了最炸的笑点，看完没人骂烂，
全在自来水安利。
在这个动辄几十亿投资、堆明星堆特效、AI 都开始批量写剧本拍电影的时代，一个人花 1500 块，用最粗糙、最野路子的手艺，把一堆拿着几个亿拍烂片的大导演全干沉默了。
什么韩红啊 冯小刚啊这些大制作大导演，在这头 1500 块的牛面前，都显得弱爆了！！！
电影的生命力从来不是钱堆出来的，
你哪怕画面崩、动作卡，只要有那股不管不顾的、鲜活的劲儿，观众真的会用脚投票把你抬上去。
能在大银幕上看到这种野生的、不按规矩来的东西，本身就挺浪漫的。
这回《牛来》是真的来了！！！
Amazo retweeted
Ein SpaceX-Ingenieur beschrieb einmal, was passiert, wenn Elon Musk einen Fehler in deiner Arbeit findet.
Der Ingenieur hatte eine thermische Analyse für ein Bauteil des Raptor-Triebwerks eingereicht. Das Dokument umfasste achtzig Seiten. Es durchlief die Prüfung von drei leitenden Ingenieuren. Es wurde genehmigt und für die Umsetzung eingeplant.
Zwei Tage später kam um elf Uhr abends eine E-Mail von Elon. Eine einzige Zeile. „Deine Berechnung des Wärmestroms auf Seite vierunddreißig geht von stationären Bedingungen aus, aber der Lastzyklus ist transient. Rechne es neu.“
Der Ingenieur sagte, er habe fünf Minuten lang auf diese E-Mail gestarrt. Nicht weil sie harsch war. Sondern weil sie stimmte. Die Annahme steckte tief in einer Teilberechnung, die keinem der drei prüfenden Ingenieure aufgefallen war. Elon hatte sie gefunden, in einem Dokument, das er gar nicht hätte lesen müssen, auf einer Seite, wo niemand von ihm erwartet hätte, dass er sie um elf Uhr abends an einem Dienstag gegenprüft.
Er sagte, genau solche Momente seien der Grund für die Kultur bei SpaceX. Nicht weil Elon Menschen mit Reden motiviert. Er hält kaum Reden. Die Kultur entsteht, weil jeder Ingenieur weiss, dass jedes eingereichte Dokument Zeile für Zeile von einem Mann gelesen werden könnte, der genau den einen Fehler findet, den alle übersehen haben. Nicht um zu bestrafen. Sondern um zu verhindern, dass der Fehler in die Hardware gelangt. Denn Fehler in Hardware führen zu Explosionen.
Die Angst gilt nicht der Kündigung. Die Angst gilt dem Gedanken, Arbeit einzureichen, die nicht das absolut Beste ist, und dass der CEO eines Sechs-Firmen-Imperiums genau den Fehler findet, den man selbst hätte erkennen müssen. Diese Angst erzeugt bessere Ingenieurskunst als jedes Motivationsposter es je könnte.
👉🏼 Eigentlich unglaublich, nicht?
Amazo retweeted
🚨 BREAKING: China just built its own SpaceX moment.
First attempt. Maiden flight. No landing legs, no propulsive touchdown like Falcon 9. The Long March-10B booster made a controlled descent onto a sea barge and a net hooked it mid-air, aircraft carrier style. The target cost: $150 per kilogram to orbit. Falcon 9 charges roughly $3,000.
A rocket booster is just the visible part. The same acceleration is happening underneath, in the inputs that make hardware like this possible faster than it used to be.
The OECD reported in March that China's total R&D spending hit $1.03 trillion in 2024, overtaking the US for the first time. That's the fuel. The output side moved just as fast: Chinese universities graduate 50,000 new STEM PhDs a year, feeding an engineering base most Western economies don't have. In AI specifically, China's domestic chip share crossed 41% in 2025, a first, with Huawei's Ascend line on pace to take half the market by year end. DeepSeek trained a GPT-4 class model for about $5.5 million in compute, versus OpenAI's reported $100 million for GPT-4 alone.
Different sectors. Same pattern: the time between "we can't do this yet" and "we shipped it" keeps shrinking, and AI is the reason. Faster iteration on chips means faster iteration on models, which means faster iteration on everything those models get pointed at, including rocket recovery systems. China's commercial space sector had a dozen companies attempting reusable rockets three years ago. Most failed. Today one of them caught a booster on the first try.
Every moat in the S&P 500 was priced on an assumption about how long it takes a competitor to catch up. AI is compressing that timeline across EVs, batteries, robotics, AI inference, and clean energy at once. Not eventually. Now.
The investors who get hurt in the next decade won't be the ones who picked the wrong stocks. They'll be the ones who built their models on timelines that no longer exist.
Amazo retweeted
Something I noticed when I visited China was public schools always started their days off with a run.
A school in Naperville, Illinois, did an experiment on this and called it "Zero Hour".
Before school, students would hit the gym at 7am and push their heart rates to 80% of their max. Then went on to do class.
The result? Reading scores doubled. Math scores jumped 20x.
On an international test, Naperville 8th graders finished 1st in science (beating Singapore) and 6th in math globally.
Some of my entrepreneur clients swear by doing cardio in the morning. They say it keeps their brain sharp. I don't disagree.
Cardio isn't just for your heart. It's brain fuel.
Exhaust the body to sharpen the mind.
