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When what you deliver is still fantastic, people will forgive you for the pie in the sky promises.
by stcredzero 9y ago
When what you deliver is still fantastic, people will forgive you for the pie in the sky promises.
- briga 9y agoSure, it's just hard to take any of his dates seriously when they're consistently wrong. I love the guy, but he tends to stretch himself a bit thin.
- SOLAR_FIELDS 9y agoMy theory is that the public date announcements are actually a bit of a perverse incentive to motivate his employees to work longer hours to meet the arbitrary date specified.
- Udik 9y agoAnd himself. Sometimes you'd never start a project if you thought "it'll take me years".
- gozur88 9y agoI'm not sure it's that he's stretched thin or just that he never pads his estimates. When Elon Musk says he's going to deliver X in three months, the unspoken coda is always "assuming every bit of uncertainty falls my way". And of course, it never does in a nontrivial project. For anyone.