May Starship have the Mandate of Heaven

In my new book, I describe the preparation, the outfit, the shoes, the makeup and the runway walk during Milan Fashion Week for Philipp Plein in February 2020. It was great to be booked for this modeling job in my 70s. Not realizing that the next day Italy would be closed down because of Covid. My flight was the last one that left Milan for Los Angeles. Crazy times…. @XFashion TIMELESS- The Art of Reinvention and Resilience at Any Age 📕 lnk.to/TimelessMayeMusk #ItsGreatToBe78

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For traditional festivals in chinese communities, one of the best ways to pass on cultural traditions is to make mooncakes together with children Children knead the dough, wrap the filling, and press the molds, every step is done with focus and care When they taste the mooncakes they made themselves, a sense of satisfaction and pride naturally comes from within Montessori education believes that practical life activities are an important part of a child’s development, hands on activities in the kitchen not only help develop children’s hand eye coordination, concentration, and sense of order, but also allow them to build confidence and independence through real life experiences During this process, children also experience the warmth of culture, and understand the meaning behind the festival

This Sunday. @vmas.

About a year ago, you guys did a truly unfathomable thing. Something that completely blew my mind… You gave The Life of a Showgirl the biggest first week for an album in history. I took a trip to Sweden to celebrate with Max and Shellback, my two collaborators on this album. Really we just wanted to reflect and take in how grateful we were for the moment we were in, but there was a studio there and we did what we do when we feel anything at all: We wrote more songs. I hope you love them, because they were born out of pure gratitude for your exuberance for and celebration of the album we made. The Life of a Showgirl: The Encore including four new songs is out on Friday and available to pre-order and save now at taylor.lnk.to/TSTLOASTheEnco… ❤️‍🔥 📸: Mert Alas & Marcus Piggott

Tonight i had dinner with a friend who is a manager at a big tech company in the bay area, her company just finished another round of layoffs, halfway through our conversation she told me a detail that stayed in my mind for a long time Among the people who were laid off, there was a single mother who had been with the company for four years, on her desk there was always a photo of her with her boss and his family at christmas, my friend said he looked at it from far away, but did not dare to go over and say hello During these four years at the company, this single mother had done many things beyond her job responsibilities, she remembered her boss childrens birthdays, she remembered his wifes birthday too, every time there was a team event she was always the most active, she was naturally an introverted person, those moments of initiative came from the clear calculation of a single mother, she did not have a second income to fall back on, so she needed to fight for every bit of loyalty she could get from the company The day the layoff list came out, her name was still on it, after the layoff nobody gave her any extra time, she received the email on friday afternoon, her access card stopped working at six oclock, her slack account was deactivated the next day, when she walked out of the office building, not a single person who had once taken photos with her or told her you are family came to see her off The next two months were even harder, she was on an H-1B, the sixty day grace period was like a knife hanging over her head, her child was still in private school, the rent still had to be paid, cobra cost more than two thousand dollars a month, but as a mother she did not dare let her child be without health insurance, she sent out more than a hundred resumes, and received fewer than ten responses My friend said he invited her for coffee last week, she was still pretending that everything was fine, thirty minutes after they met, she finally broke down and cried, asking herself what exactly she had done wrong in these four years Actually she had done nothing wrong, she had simply stepped into a trap of warmth packaged by the rules without realizing it The big tech companies in the bay area are very good at this kind of warm narrative, from the team lunch on the first day you join, to the we care for each other repeated again and again in the culture deck, to the bosses sincere we are together at all hands, in front of business logic, the lifespan of all these things only lasts until one second before the layoff email is sent After that second, the connections from the past, the late nights of overtime, even the photo on the desk, can all be stripped away in an instant, you are no longer anyones family, you become a headcount in the budget sheet again, an operating cost written in excel The essence of at will employment has never changed, the company can terminate the contract at any time within what the law allows, without having to provide extra protection for your life I have also seen too many such backs walking away in the bay area and silicon valley, the most cruel mismatch is that employees try to use emotional investment to gain a sense of security, while the organization has always been using rules to calculate the input and output ratio That friday afternoon, she took all her personal belongings with her, except she left that group photo on her desk, my friend said that until the cleaning staff came to clear the desk, the photo was still standing there in the same place, It was like a silent metaphor, leaving behind the final absurd yet realistic footnote for everyone who had once given their whole heart to a company

I’ve been impatiently waiting to tell you that my brand new single “Patient Zero” will be out on September 25 (!!!!!!!!!!!!) and it’s available to pre-order now at store.taylorswift.com for 24 hours. 0️⃣0️⃣0️⃣0️⃣

Happy 13th anniversary to @ZeagooOfficial—13 years of celebrating women, personal style, and every chapter along the way. ✨ I also appreciate Zeagoo’s commitment to supporting women beyond fashion.  This October, the brand will continue that work by raising awareness for breast cancer and women’s health.  To me, true confidence is about feeling healthy, supported, and cared for. #ZeagooXMayeMusk #OwnYourGlow #Zeagoo13th #ZeagooCares #ZeagooMoment

In 7 days, the first Starship launch to orbit will be carrying Starlink V3 satellites intended for operational use

my coworker is slacking off at work 🤣

Sounds bad

Thank you @ainsleyearhardt @foxandfriends for having me on your program today. You are all so much fun.

Well said

cute little guy😂

Poor people budget, wealthy people invest.

The longer I’ve been in the Bay Area, the more I’ve come to believe that, in many careers, the choices you make matter more than how hard you work I’ve watched a lot of people in AI here reach the same career crossroads and make completely different bets One path: stay at a big tech company, go from Senior to Staff, get the clear title, predictable TC, and a career path your family can easily understand. The other: join some early stage startup most people have never heard of as a founding engineer For the first six months, the product direction might change every few weeks. You have no idea what the equity will actually be worth Most people choose the first path And honestly, that makes sense. We’re wired to seek certainty But looking back over the past few years, almost everyone I’ve seen make a real career leap made a different choice at some point They took the second path Robert Frost wrote: “I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference.” It’s been quoted so many times that the line has almost lost its weight But after watching enough people stand at that crossroads, and seeing where they end up three or five years later, you start to understand it differently That doesn’t mean every hard path is worth taking. Some paths are just hard. You struggle for years and come out with very little to show for it The people I’ve seen really make it through tend to have one thing in common: The problems they went through became some of the most valuable things they carry with them I’ve seen people spend their first six months as founding engineers figuring things out the hard way, only to have those experiences become, three years later, the kind of judgment they rely on when leading a team, something you can’t really learn from a playbook That kind of experience stays with you You can change companies. You can change directions You don’t lose it There’s another thing I’ve taken a long time to understand People who choose the narrower path rarely look back and say “I was brave.” They’re more likely to say “I knew what I wanted. I knew what I was willing to give up. So I went for it.” There’s usually no dramatic moment Most of the time, it’s just a quiet decision And here’s the interesting part: People who take the narrower path often look like they’re doing worse in the short term Their LinkedIn looks less impressive. Their TC might even go down. Their family might ask “Are you sure you made the right choice?” But three or five years later, you look at those two people again and they may not even be playing the same game anymore So sometimes, the question isn’t how hard you’re willing to work It’s whether, when you reach that crossroads, you know what you actually want and what you’re willing to give up to get it

Next Starship flight on 9/22

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My book is now available in all English speaking countries, and in countries where they speak English. Thank you @HarperCollinsUK 📕🤩🤩