> Michael Phelps was not slightly better at swimming. If you look at individual records he literally was just ~1% better than the previous record holder. His 2

> Michael Phelps was not slightly better at swimming. If you look at individual records he literally was just ~1% better than the previous record holder. His 200m freestyle record was 102.96, the previous record was 104.06. The whole field is people making slight improvements on previous generations. > Elon Musk is not a modestly more enthusiastic car company CEO Many attempts at electric cars were there, his happened to be at the time when battery tech had become good enough. A few decades earlier we'd look at him they same way we look at Clive Sinclair after his electric car effort, despite a previous notable contribution in the computer market.