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Rambling About Elon, AI, and Where This Might Be Going

February 5, 2026

This one’s different. No anchor, no lesson, no script — just me thinking out loud. I ramble through an idea that’s been stuck in my head after watching Elon talk about solar, AI, chips, robots, and scale — and what might be happening when you zoom all the way out. This isn’t a take. It’s not advice. It’s not polished. It’s more like sitting around and asking: “What if this is actually where things are heading?” Some of it might sound crazy. Some of it might age terribly. That’s kind of the point. If you’re trying to make sense of things in real time, this might resonate.

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Hey, welcome to Slow Builds.

So this one's going to be a little bit different.

So this channel was really...

I have an idea to go through what AI told me would be anchors.

So like their family, investing, coding, life.

Just the main topics.

And we have 52 of those queued up, basically.

at least the most...

idea framed. And we had the also the idea of adding in, they called it like a bridge

video, which would be examples of what I'm doing, what I'm working on, how I use the

things that I talk about from time to time, maybe what I'm investing in, especially reading,

there'll be a lot of references to books, almost like little quick book reviews. But

I think that's what we're gonna decide what these are called so they'll come out not

Whatever I feel I want to say something

So at the moment

So

so this one really is gonna be maybe Tesla Elon and what I think I saw might be happening and

When he was at Davos, I noticed

He started commenting about the Sun because he was asking about solar panel solar power

And he was asking about the EVs and the robots and stuff like that

But he can he mentioned like the Sun and how much power

Can be generated and I think he mentioned like enough the power all of China

Which is pretty insane and then he did mention

uninterrupted sunlight

So ding ding

What does he have? He has the rocket ships. He has the satellites

So for him it's not that big a deal so you start thinking about it, it's like he has these plans to

Do satellite to come out for Starlink, which are super powerful

One friend mentioned how he feels the transmission time delays, but I think

At my level and my friends level

There's things that are being developed and changed that we don't know

And I believe Elon has the right people in place to help him figure these things out

So if he's throwing up the rocket ships and then he's throwing up the massive solar panels and he wants to start

He has grok and AI and he wants to start building

These chips and I really believe if he can't find the right supplier. He is going to make him

Himself and it's probably already in the work somewhere

Prototypes and whatever else because he the numbers he's talking are massive

Even taking off the Tesla car to earn in the robots and how many wants to pump out which means he needs the chips

Which means he's the power he needs da I he needs everything. So when you think about it

With the and with the Starlink involved he has it all he has all the pieces in place

Throw up those satellites have him directly pointed at the Sun. They're collecting all the power. He's got

Let's just say what he's going to do data centers in space because what happens free energy

That's one of the biggest cost. The other problem is the heating wall in space. There's no problem with that

So he can have these

Super data centers up in space floating around processing all this data. We're sending up requests and whatever

It's caching everything and then it's star link connected to the car connected to the robots connected to your laptop your computer your phone

Whatever. I still think he is working on a phone

It's just too big and I really believe he I don't think he thinks a little ways down the road

I think he thinks long long term, but hoping it happens faster than it does because he tries to push people which

It comes off

Rude and mean and whatever, but I think his goal is just

Get the Mars

and to make us the smartest

Civilization is possible. I

Believe a lot of what he says. I think a lot of it does come across as I

I don't want to say the crazy word, but it kind of feels that way.

But in the hard-hating time, the crazier the idea, it just seems to be that's what people

are doing and that's why it works.

It's like living in the Jetsons.

So as bad as it is to have one man with all that power, I do believe someday I'm going

to wake up and my Tesla stock is now going to be a combination of all of them.

The biggest company in the world of history.

runs everything, everything runs off of it. It's kind of scary to have that much

power but hopefully there's regulations and things in place. And the other thing

is he wants to get the Mars. He wants to give us a chance to live. He wants

to build civilization right I think or at least in the way he believes it should

be run. I don't think anyone's gonna stop him. I don't think no matter what he does I

I think he's the only one pushing the envelope farther and farther ahead.

He's trying to get there quicker because I think he wants to see it in his life.

And if he's able to do that, then it helps all mankind really.

In many ways, I can't even think about him, so I'm not even going to go there.

But I believe no one's going to stop him.

I believe he's going to be able to keep doing what he's doing.

People want to put up with it.

People want to complain.

People want to buy his products.

Worse comes to worse.

Government funded.

Private funding.

I think people are going to let him run this course in hopes that it turns into what mankind

possibly needs.

This is a true random.

This is a rambling, like the best of them.

It's like sitting around with the guys and just, what could happen?

What's a crazy idea?

And that's what I feel this one's turning into.

And that's okay, like there's no script there.

So hopefully this one, I don't need to edit it.

I haven't edited anything yet.

Everything's been a one shot deal.

And I feel I wanna do more, if I post this,

and I think I might after I rewatch it,

make sure I don't say anything too crazy.

I like doing the random links.

I have like, I have an idea I wanna do,

I really want to do it now, but like with Nike,

I want to pop something out for that.

The autonomous cars.

Why I'm very, very bullish, bullish on Uber right now.

And why my strategy has changed a lot.

Yeah, slow builds.

I think all these are slow, like you invest it, forget it.

It's good volatility is through the roof on these.

But I believe there's missing pieces that make them slow, slow build.

It's like you put the money in and you live with it.

It's like Bitcoin, you know, you just, you kind of ignore the news.

You follow it because you enjoy it and you're, you're invested in it.

But in the end, it's more, you got to go with your gut.

Like another one that I've got my kid to invest in and myself, Rivian.

I honestly believe that they have a great chance, but it all comes down to cash flow.

How long is that runway for them?

Can someone keep them alive?

Do they want to keep them alive?

But again, rambling, which is the purpose of it.

So hopefully you like this.

I would love to do more of these actually because I feel more comfortable doing this.

So we'll see what happens.

All right, thanks.

and leave some comments. I need to know if someone's actually watching this. It's

reaching a point that like I said I wanted to give up but I when I commit

to something I usually try to push through. I am pumping them out a little faster

than I was expecting because new it's new but if I know I'm gonna keep to my

schedule. It gives me a... I don't know, smart goals. I have small little attainable goals

along the way. Smart goals is another one that I want to put out. But yeah, let me know

if this is interesting to anyone. If I'm way off pace, do I even have a chance here? But

thank you.