As I sat uncomfortably awake all night in preparation for a 6:15am colonoscopy, I was doom scrolling YouTube and ended up on an Elon/SpaceX talk that made me completely question my entire life.
ESPECIALLY my bootstrapper ideals.
This video was literally science fiction. They are going to send humanoid robots to Mars next year to do science for two years, in advance of sending humans. Not to mention they are re-landing rockets the size of skyscrapers that are moving at 17,000 MPH.
How am I supposed to watch this and not feel like what I spend my life on is totally inconsequential?
How am I supposed to compete in a world where entrepreneurs, who are so clearly an exponentially superior breed than me, exist?
How am I supposed to keep saying “go bootstrap a SaaS, it’s a great life” on LinkedIn when he’s doing stuff like this?
At the same time, I find it wildly inspirational.
If this dude can do all this WHILE forcing the entire auto industry to go electric, have one of the 4 foundational AI models, and implant chips in our brain that could control the iPhone, it makes me feel like the problems we are trying to solve are tiny by comparison and well within our capability, far faster than I currently think.
While it made me feel tiny, it also got my adrenaline pumping and got me fired up for work the next day (albeit after I recovered from the invasive probe and anesthesia).
Thank you Elon for ruining an already horrible day.
Adam
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