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A few years ago, before I made the hard decision to shut down my last company, a friend asked me: ‘what would Elon do?’
That question has guided most of my operating since then and has led to the most productive years of my career.
Marc Andreessen breaks down in this video why that mindset matters and how Elon runs multiple companies by staying the lead problem solver.
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🔥 Larry Ellison's Morning Routine
5:30 - 6:30 AM: Early Rise & Mental Preparation
Wakes before 7:00 AM - values quiet morning hours for clear thinking
Mental preparation - sets daily priorities and reflects on goals
Strategic advantage - part of 19% of billionaires who wake before 7 AM
6:00 - 7:30 AM: Physical Exercise
Multi-sport routine: Swimming, tennis, sailing, or gym sessions
Daily commitment - ‘several hours’ when younger, now consistent but modified
Purpose: Mental clarity and sustained energy throughout the day
Philosophy: Exercise as competitive business advantage
7:00 - 8:00 AM: Signature Breakfast
Carrot-orange juice blend: Half-carrot, half-orange juice - daily ritual since 1990s
Veg-aquarian diet: Vegetables, fish, fruit in small portions
Hydration: Green tea and water only
Zero tolerance: Complete avoidance of alcohol - ‘can't stand anything that clouds the mind’
8:00 - 8:30 AM: Mindfulness & Meditation
Stress reduction: Centers himself before high-pressure business decisions
Mental clarity: Sharpens focus and emotional regulation
Strategic thinking: Prepares mind for complex problem-solving
8:30 - 9:30 AM: Work Priorities
High-impact focus: Tackles most important strategic initiatives first
Email processing: Reviews overnight communications
Day structuring: Organizes schedule and sets objectives
Core Philosophy
Early bird advantage - best mental energy hours for strategic work
Undisturbed productivity - values hours when ‘nobody is calling’
Health as wealth - fitness routine supports 40+ year business career
Consistency over perfection - maintains discipline for momentum building
👀 This guy used n8n to curate non-scary audiobooks for his kid
His child loves audiobooks, especially if dinosaurs show up. But ghost stories? Too scary.
The issue: he had 200+ Paw Patrol audiobooks stored in Audiobookshelf, and no way to know which ones had dinosaurs and which ones had ghosts. He definitely wasn’t going to sit and listen to them all.
So he built a system.
Using the Audiobookshelf API, n8n pulls in each audiobook.
A local Whisper instance transcribes the audio.
The transcripts go to an LLM, which spits out a short plot description and tags like “dinosaurs” or “scary.”
The workflow then hides the scary stuff from his child’s account, and highlights the dinosaur-tagged ones.
The automation runs through three n8n workflows:
Collector – grabs all unprocessed audiobooks.
Worker – does the transcription, description, tagging, and saving.
Error Handler – catches problems if the worker stalls.
The result: his kid now sees only the fun dinosaur adventures in their library, zero ghost stories.
It was his first real n8n project. It solved a real problem. And it gave him the most important win: peace of mind and a happier kid.
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🧠 ON MY MIND
Apple’s ‘Veritas’ chatbot is speculated to be Apple's answer to ChatGPT
Andrew Chen's ‘dinner party jerk’ test
Startup salaries, equity, and their impact on employee retention
Meta launched ‘Vibes,’ a short-form video feed of AI slop
OpenAI launched ChatGPT Pulse to write your morning briefs
Trump approved for a $14B TikTok deal
Humanoid robots are Meta’s next ‘AR-size bet’
The playbook for startups going viral has finally been written
🎯 THE 80 / 20
Simple tricks to get a ton of value with minimal effort for work and life.
Custom Voice Shortcuts on iPhone
Set a custom iPhone voice command so saying “Screenshot remind me” auto-captures your screen, asks for a reminder time, and files it in Reminders with the image attached, perfect for saving info mid-meeting or while multitasking. It can be for literally anything, like “open YouTube” or “log today’s workout.”
Warm Pipeline Pulse
Spend one hour at month’s end reviving warm threads, VCs you pitched, founders you vibed with, ghosted clients. Share a quick update or useful resource. Momentum dies in silence; keeping threads alive compounds serendipity.
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🤝 COMMUNITY POLL
How do you keep track of conversations across platforms (email, Slack, LinkedIn, WhatsApp, etc.)?
Last week’s poll:
What’s your relationship with Inbox Zero?
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🟩🟩🟩🟩⬜️⬜️ I try… but it’s chaos (50/50 success)
🟨⬜️⬜️⬜️⬜️⬜️ I’ve given up (hundreds/thousands unread)
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