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Insights on Elon Musk

Discussion in 'Fred's House of Pancakes' started by bwilson4web, Aug 11, 2024 at 8:31 AM.

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    There are a lot of uninformed opinions around Elon Musk. Having read his biography and been a working engineer, here is one of the better insights to how Elon works and thinks:

    • Starts with discussion of Elon Musk
      • Go at least to 16:08 for the core
    • The whole video deals with Tesla as a business
    I have both favorable and critical opinions about Elon:
    • Quality over schedule explains "Elon time"
      • He does unique and never done before things
      • Won't knowingly ship if it doesn't meet his expectations
      • Willing to learn lessons and change
    • Loves his kids
      • No understanding of the one who rejects him.
    • Susceptible to fraudsters . . . as we all are.
    • Serial monogamist compared to this 43 year, widower.
      • Should have had a vasectomy after the 5th of 11 kids
    • Performance demanding boss
    Bob Wilson
     
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    Unsophisticated individuals falsely assume that genius in one endeavor means genius in everything.

    That's why they use baseball players endorse automobiles.

    Musk manages innovations in the fields of electric cars and aerospace fields.

    In other matters of society, he is obviously lacking in skills.
     
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    I don’t want to have any insights about him though. There is enough space given in the news already about him. He is another person in the world, no more valuable than any other. Depends on the value system I guess. I tend to think more in the lines of the New Testament, or try to. It’s very engrained, money is success. Engrained from childhood.
     
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    The managers of almost all organizations get the credit for almost everything.

    However, It's everything else in the organization who does all the work and innovation.

    In history, slaves who in innovated and built most of the infrastructure in the South never got any credit.

    Elon did not do it all. Especially, a lot of immigrants, who he appears to denigrate work for him to make his achievements possible.



    In early California, Japanese and Chinese immigrants innovated and developed the agricultural and fisheries, when the white got most all the credit.
     
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    great societies need great leaders. while we are all equally valuable, we are not all equally capable.
     
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