There's a lot of howling on HN (and elsewhere) about how awful Elon Musk is for missing deadlines and what an awful person he must be to have this terrible "cha

There's a lot of howling on HN (and elsewhere) about how awful Elon Musk is for missing deadlines and what an awful person he must be to have this terrible "character trait." But producting innovations is just hard, and Brook's Law applies. Hope the howlers read this post. Rivian is a real company, it's not an impulsive metoo idea or fraud (like Nikola); but it has a hard road ahead as Tesla did, just somewhat shorter and not quite as rough because it's not the absolute pioneer.