Sterling Terrell

recovering economist

Awesome Electric Car

Awesome Electric Car

Say what you will about Musk, everyone does.

But I saw a cybertruck in person the other day for the first time…

And it’s just an awesome electric car.

Funny how nearly every idea is stupid/crazy – until it works.

The guys like Straubel who had been at Tesla since the beginning are quick to remind people that the chance to build an awesome electric car had been there all along. “It’s not really like there was a rush to this idea, and we got there first,” Straubel said. “It is frequently forgotten in hindsight that people thought this was the shittiest business opportunity on the planet. The venture capitalists were all running for the hills.” What separated Tesla from the competition was the willingness to charge after its vision without compromise, a complete commitment to execute to Musk’s standards.

-Ashley Vance, Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future (Amazon)

Example Of Writing Material

Example Of Writing Material

The best example of writing material is your own experience.

I mean, you can write all kinds of hypothetical scenarios…

But there is power in writing what you know from your perspective.

This is why my pieces that have packed the most punch are about Saudi Arabia, airports, local breakfast spots, and my grandparents.

Larry McMurtry could never get away from that hill in Archer City, and my guess is that your writing won’t be able to either.

Keep going back to what you know.

I guess it’s true for comedy too:

I was able to maintain a personal relationship with Johnny over the next thirty years, at least as personal as he or I could make it, and I was flattered that he came to respect my comedy. On one of my appearances, after he had done a solid impression of Goofy the cartoon dog, he leaned over to me during a commercial and whispered prophetically, “You’ll use everything you ever knew.” He was right; twenty years later I did my teenage rope tricks in the movie ¡Three Amigos!

-Steve Martin, Born Standing Up (Amazon)

Sterling Terrell