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Yes, he is always extremely awkward. Stumbling over his own words, telling jokes that only he has context for, going into unscripted mini-tangents without much
by oh_sigh 5y ago
Yes, he is always extremely awkward. Stumbling over his own words, telling jokes that only he has context for, going into unscripted mini-tangents without much of a point, "ums" 30x in a row, waiting for applause at inappropriate times. An all around zero when it comes to public speaking. Despite me saying all this, I like Elon when he isn't on twitter. I still own TSLA since the IPO and he has made me a lot of money(I doubt TSLA would be where it was without him, even if the products would have been exactly the same). But he still should take a public speaking crash course, and maybe some beta blockers before these events.
- colechristensen 5y agoI think it is good that we have a tech leader succeeding without a polished, coached, focus group approved self presentation. It’s good to have an entirely different brand of bullshit out there and a person demonstrating that a different type of brain can fit in any role.
- mrspeaker 5y agoI think it's a bit of a hack for people like me: everyone has been taught to sound super-confident, make everything super glossy and slick and over-produced. Almost always it's to cover the lack of original or substantial content underlying the delivery. Now the more confident-sounding and charismatic someone is, the less I believe there will be anything interesting I can learn from them, and the less I trust them!
- djokkataja 5y ago> These days, the more confident-sounding and charismatic someone is, the less I believe there is anything interesting I can learn from them, and the less I trust them! Probably a good metric anyway; if someone puts all their points into charisma, they have opportunity costs in other dimensions (excluding any "natural" charisma that some people may arbitrarily have, to the degree that's actually a thing or not).