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My general concern is that these continuing side projects are seriously going to start detracting from his self reported primary missions dealing with spaceflig
by geuis 4y ago
My general concern is that these continuing side projects are seriously going to start detracting from his self reported primary missions dealing with spaceflight and human colonization.
As a collective of industries/businesses, Spacex, Starlink, Gigafactories for batteries, and Tesla cars all generally support each other. That's four overwhelmingly large enterprises that any regular founder would build their career around individually. It's incredibly impressive that Musk has built all four into successful businesses.
The random side projects are a distraction.
Twitter is just the largest and most expensive. Boring machines is going nowhere, though I appreciate the comedy in the naming.
Tesla long haul trucks are a natural extension of that ecosystem but should be managed by employees at Tesla.
Neurolink potentially has some major long term foundational changes, but the tech is probably 10 years too early to build a successful company around. (However I think this is potentially Musk's most important future company beyond Spacex.)
But, he is the guy with the success so far, so my little one-man opinions are just that.
My personal priorities are on spaceflight and colonization, and I would like to see him just focusing on that. Despite the progress that Starship is making, everything seems to have slowed down dramatically. There has yet to be a full stack launch. They just moved ship 8 to the retirement pad. There was only one Heavy launch this year when 3 were scheduled.
Regular Falcon 9 flights are happening almost daily, which is quite astounding. Like, really astounding. Starlink is already active and providing high speed service around the world and is a critical part of Ukraine's defense against Russia.
I just want to see more progress being made towards the moon lander, reusable Starship launches, on-orbit refueling, and measurable progress towards Mars expeditions.
- simonw 4y agoPossibly the most brutal comment I've seen about this whole situation was: > Imagine living in a Mars colony with this management style https://twitter.com/Jon_Christian/status/1587853397385834496 https://twitter.com/Jon_Christian/status/1587853397385834496
- geuis 4y agoOof. Too right. But honestly, it's too early to worry about who runs what. Let's focus on progress towards transportation first.
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- coretx 4y ago>> Neuralink potentially has some major long term foundational changes, but the tech is probably 10 years too early to build a successful company around. (However I think this is potentially Musk's most important future company beyond Spacex.) No it's not 10 years too early, it's 50 years late to the party - but your conclusion could very well be right regardless. Non-invasive BCI surpassed everything Neuralink has done so far decades ago, however it's not super relevant since the capabilities of micro electronics skyrocketed; and perhaps indeed beyond SpaceX potential. If you can't afford BCI for your children, in the future they will be doomed to be blue collar as all those who do will have children with brains supported or adjusted for them to pass the highest levels of education & training within shorter amounts of time thus will rule the world. The most famous example of things like this already in use today is DARPA / US Snipers doubling some of their test scores using BCI. This is just the beginning. See the link below for more information. https://totaltdcs.com/uploads/docs/darpa-operational-neuroscience-intelligence-community-forum-dr-amy-kruse.pdf https://totaltdcs.com/uploads/docs/darpa-operational-neurosc...