Last full day in PR until next time

11:43 PM

It's already the last day in PR for me until next time. Future events always seem to be so distant until they occur, then they last but a brief moment until they're history, never to be experienced again.

I still remember it being Wednesday a few days ago and today feeling like a day so far away. Now today is here, and in a few minutes it'll be gone. In 13 minutes, today will be over, and a "few minutes" refers to those 13 minutes. Yet, a day has 1440 minutes, which seems like a lot, but compared to the 525,600 minutes in a year, 1440 seems like just a "few minutes" as well.

No one can do anything to stop time from advancing. It doesn't matter how meticulously one plans or works towards stopping time, it's something that can't happen. It doesn't matter how powerful, how wealthy, how many, not even the entirety of all humans throughout history working together can stop time from advancing. Everyone ages, withers, dies.

It's important to live each day fully. To different people, that could mean different things. Nearly everyone wastes their day, they don't think much about it passing away. People are anxious about what's next. When going through school, they think about the next test that's upcoming, or the next school event to look forward to like a sports game, homecoming, prom, graduation. Prior to even graduating, they're already thinking about the college they'll be attending. While in college they're already thinking about the first full-time job they'll get. While they're working they're already thinking about their next promotion or next role or next company. Few people rarely take a second to take it all in.

Retirement seems so far away to people in their early 20s and 30s. It comes and goes as quickly as the entire school system they went through. The 12 years of standard schooling + 4 years of college is 16 years, but let's just round it up to 20 since we also go through pre-school, kindergarten, master's and phd programs. These 20 first years of our lives might actually seem longer than the next 40 years due to our sense of time adjusting and how repetitive and similar the rest of life becomes.

I don't think anyone will be able to match the accomplishments that Steve Jobs has had in his lifetime. Out of everyone's biographies I've read, and I'm using "biographies" loosely to not just refer to full 300+ page biographies, but also short 1 hour or so audio programs on people, as well as documentaries, and even reading through their Wikipedia pages, I've read over 100+ "biographies" using this definition. Out of all these biographies I've read, Steve Jobs has the most interesting and unsurpassable life filled with accomplishments and adventure. He founded Apple in his garage and created the number one company in the world in his lifetime, surpassing every other company that ever existed. He became the best in any field his companies entered. He was incredible.

Growing up, I didn't know much about Apple or Steve Jobs. It was Bill Gates that I looked up to as my "hero", since he was the wealthiest person on the planet for my entire schooling life, and he created Microsoft whose operating systems and products I used and enjoyed very much. I felt like Steve Jobs was pretty insignificant in comparison, his net worth at the highest in his lifetime was a fraction of Bill Gates', because he had sold of all his shares of Apple when he got fired in the 80s, and he only received like 1% to 3% of it back or something from returning to Apple, while Bill Gates owned like 40%+ of Microsoft for the longest time. So just from net worth alone, I thought Bill Gates accomplished more than Steve Jobs.

In fact, Steve Jobs accomplished significantly more than Bill Gates. When Steve Jobs entered the fields of music, retail, digital films, education, mobile, electronic music players, computers, laptops, etc. he became the leader of those fields. Every single field he entered. Prior to iPods, mp3 players were already a huge thing, but iPods revolutionized them with their storage and style, making the best selling mp3 players of all time. Prior to iTunes, cds and casettes were huge and they sold a decent amount, with the advent of iTunes, he turned Apple into the number one music selling company in the world. His Apple Stores became the most profitable retail stores, his Pixar films became the best selling and most popular animation movies in the world even surpassing Disney, his iPhone became the best selling phones, and so on and so forth. Everything he touched turned to gold, and he was vegan, he had a fully vegan wedding in the 80s too.

It in unfortunate Steve Jobs passed away so young. In that short lifetime, no one has accomplished more. This current generation's Steve Jobs is probably Elon Musk, and I've read his biography too, but after seeing the documentary "Elon Musk Debunked" it turned out a lot of it was a lie, and Elon Musk is pretty much just a smooth talking salesman promising lofty things, accomplishing nothing, but getting a lot of money in return.

Let's list the things Elon Musk said he would do but never did. This is just off the top of my head, but he's promised self driving cars by 2017 or so, he's even quoted as saying something like "we can do that today right now", 7 years later it's still not even close. He talked about robo-taxis able to return 100% profit by 2019, he talked about solar roofs and how this one neighborhood all had solar roofs (apparently a total fraud), he's talked about landing on mars by 2021 or so, he's talked about his hyperloop revolutionizing transport (total fraud and doesn't work. The hyperloop and his hyperbole promises are probably why the U.S. doesn't even have high speed rail, because he keeps promising these things and the government pauses other programs to give him billions.

The YouTube channel Thunderf00t does a great job of debunking Elon Musk and every one of his claims. He has made countless claims over the years, countless promises to investors who keep giving him money. They just keep giving him money and so does the government. He made a car company that doesn't even have 1% of the car sales that Toyota has, yet his car company is worth more than all the other car companies combined because people keep giving him money, because he keeps promising things. The car company Build Your Dream from China has already surpassed Tesla in terms of sales and technology, yet it's worth basically nothing, while Tesla is one of the most valued companies in the world because of investors throwing money at it. BYD cars can't really even sell in the U.S. because the U.S. gives Chinese companies a 100% tariff, so it's not profitable for them to sell here, but their cars are only $11k for Tesla quality cars, compared to $40k+ for a Tesla.

X or Twitter isn't even a company Elon Musk made either. He just bought it. Same with Tesla actually, he also didn't create it, he bought majority stake from the two founders and basically kicked them out and claimed all credit. I think he's modified the company's bylaws to declare himself founder too. Same with PayPal, he was part of the X (yes he called his company X he founded in the 90s X, and got the domain name X dot com) and Confinity merger, he was kicked out before the company changed its name to PayPal in the early 2000s, but Musk still had his shares, which he used for Tesla. Prior to X, he had another company, he sucked at coding apparently, but was lucky some other company bought it for a lot. This is all from the "Elon Musk Debunked" documentary.

So yeah, "this generation's" Steve Jobs, as in the the technological leader and inspiration for today's generation, is basically a failure in my eyes. I don't like Mark Zuckerberg either. The Telegram creator, Pavel Durov, I think is the better technological inspiration for today's generation. He created VK which is Russia's Facebook when he was around 22. He created Telegram too obviously, used as much as WhatsApp and Discord. He also doesn't eat meat which is a good inspiration, and he has six pack abs, which is also cool.

I think the former Twitter founders, not Jack since I think he's also similar to Elon Musk and lucked his way up, but Evan Williams of Blogger, Twitter, and Medium. I think Evan Williams is great. I would say the same of Biz Stone since I have a bias since he's also vegan, but he hasn't really done much outside of Twitter, whom he made the logo for, and holds the patent for Twitter along with Jack. I think Evan Williams and Noah Glass made more contributions to Twitter personally, with Evan Williams being the guy really running the show, and Noah Glass coming up with the name and concept, while the others birthed it. Noah Glass was kicked out pretty early because the other founders didn't like him, and he is broke today, but he is the one who came up with the name Twitter, and he is the one who came up with the concept for it, so that deserves a lot of credit, even if he wasn't given any financially.

What am I even going on about? I am supposed to be writing about my day and here I am on tangents going on about tech founders.

I woke up and just watched Horrible Histories. I completed all the episodes on the cartoon website today, I didn't watch them all in one day, it took more than a week I think, but I've now seen every episode from Season 1 to Season 5.

I worked on some more AI songs today for a new album. I wasn't able to complete it, because I'd do some vegan activism again today with Eric, Gus, and Guy. I left for their place at around 5 PM, and then we went to the beach and it was all positive today basically. Several people went vegan on the spot. Pretty amazing experience and conversations, not that many viewers today though, just a bit over 100 total views from the stream.

Prior to this actually, I tried to sign up for a premium subscription on X. I'm signed onto two accounts and they gave premium to the wrong account. I don't know how that could have happened, because I was signed onto my correct account, and I clicked on "subscribe to premium" while on the correct account I wanted to give premium to. Anyway, it's weird, I cancelled my subscription right away, but I'm going to use this other account, Megawattz Music, which has 2 followers, for now. It really takes a while to build it up, but I have also built up my Threads account to over 100 followers recently, just by posting random stuff since last year. Maybe I can do it again?

As I write this, I'm uncertain of it. I have doubts it'll happen. But, surprising things happen, and I also believe that I'll be able to accomplish it and get another 100+ followers onto this account, within a month, since that's when the subscription will end. Maybe it'll happen, maybe not. Like I said, I do have doubts, but also won't be too shocked if it does happen.

I did my brain training again today, and my Peak Brain Score is now at 842. That's pretty incredible.

Oh yeah, there it is. There's this cricket in my room, or somewhere nearby, and he's very loud. Let me record it on my phone just because I want to capture this moment. He has been chirping loudly for a few days now, he'd go on and off. He was off this whole time, but he's at it again right now.

I"m back from recording a full video of me touring my place basically, while he kept chirping. He stopped when I walked up to the fridge, maybe he's under there. He's been very elusive and I haven't been able to find him this whole time. The way he chirps makes it sound like there are multiple of him, and it's honestly very hard to discern the location. He sounds like he's elsewhere, even if he's right there. I've searched the entirety of my room last night when I was sure he was there, looked under my bed, looked all around, and couldn't find him, he was chirping that whole time too. Maybe he was outside my room but I couldn't even tell?

I would let him out, because just like every other animal, like cows, pigs, chickens, dogs, cats, he deserves to be free and not be confined and not be killed. But I can't find him.

Also, I recently took a picture of the elusive white lizard that lives behind the small round mirror hung next to my door. They've been here since I've put that mirror up, and I'm glad they chose that as their home, I take it as a sign of good luck and fortune, because this is an extreme rarity. Every other lizard I've come across is black/gray, these lizards are albino, they have red eyes too. There was also a time this place had to be repainted, and I took the mirror down, they disappeared for a while while everything was repainted, and then returned when I hung the mirror back up. I would often see them at night when I'm leaving home, or when I'm coming back home, as they live behind the mirror next to my door. I didn't see them tonight when I came back home though. There used to be just one a few years ago, and I think he had a family, and then for a while there were a couple of white albino lizards that lived behind my mirror. Now I think there's just one again.

Anyway, that was my day today.