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My impression of Elon is that he would appreciate this straightforward feedback that is consistent with his no bs persona. I wonder if he has different evidence

• bmitc 4y ago
  Elon Musk has a no bs persona? Isn't his persona almost always bullshitting?
• ulfw 4y ago
  Then you have the wrong impression of a narcissist.
• acdha 4y ago
  Nothing in his public behavior suggests he takes criticism or being shown up well. Remember the cave rescue in Thailand? A normal person would have said “this kids are safe, great!” but his ego was irreparably injured by the knowledge that he wasn’t the smartest guy in the room. My guess is that he’s going in determined to be the alpha engineer[1], assuming everyone who isn’t “his man” is stupid, possibly a saboteur, but is still going by what trivia comes up in response to questions. Something like “when you load the app we do a GraphQL query which makes hundreds of requests to our microservices” was understood as “the client makes all of those requests one by one” and since he doesn’t respect his employees he doesn’t pause to ask whether they really wouldn’t have noticed a blindingly obvious problem like that. 1. No, he definitely doesn’t want to know that’s not even a real thing with wolves.
• sidibe 4y ago
  "no bs persona"? I guess you mean his style is "no BS" rather than the substance of what he says. It's funny I see this applied to people who constantly BS as long as they are not nice to people or PC.
• steele 4y ago
  Nothing is his public interaction or interviews lends this impression to anyone that has been paying attention.