July 24, 2023, at the X HQ in SF, a giant pink hashtag with a bird on it, was moved out.

The end of the birds.

Removing the birds, and changing the signage is less important than the incredible changes that Elon Musk brought.

They say sunlight is the best disinfectant. Elon brought that sunlight. The Twitter Files are a gift to humanity. All are worth reading, absorbing, and learning from.

Elon found a way to take control of a large & financially failing company — and save it. I am impressed with the strategic moves he made to transform X into a startup.

Finding the best engineers for the job at X is critical. If you look at Tesla, SpaceX, Neuralink the Boring company, you might think that was thoroughly enough for one man to achieve in his lifetime.

This is why Twitter could not be something Elon “bought” but rather “X” be something that he started. From that stemmed what may be one of the most important companies of our time: xAI.

I asked one of my sons what he would want to talk about with Elon if he could meet him. “Time management. How does he manage his time? How does he achieve doing so much? I would like to know his methods.”

Once in a rare while, a very rare while, humanity throughout history is given a gift. Elon Musk is one of those gifts.

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