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Elon Musk's determination
- rokhayakebe 14y ago"The master isn't the one who knows all there is to know about a subject, but the one who has made a commitment to practice and improve his knowledge of the art every single day from here on."
- crosh 14y agoI respectfully disagree. A master is someone with a deep understanding of a sector but who believes always continues to learn. Being interested in an industry, starting a company, and thinking that you can then learn about it is a fools game.
- vidar 14y agoWith that kind of determination, he has a great shot at getting into YC.
- unimpressive 14y agoYou're joking; right?
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- vidar 14y agoI certainly am.
- gsivil 14y agoMaybe for the YCS01 batch
- TeMPOraL 14y agoAs in, Y-Combinator Space? :).
- mehulkar 14y agoI think he might even have a shot at getting a scholarship.
- eupharis 14y agoI don't know. Maybe. But he doesn't seem nearly agile enough. He seems to be hellbent on a single goal: get to space on the cheap. I don't think he's ever going to be able to pivot away from that.
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- gfosco 14y agoTruly an amazing person, living and building on many dreams. I wish I could help.
- mehulkar 14y agohttp://www.spacex.com/careers.php http://www.spacex.com/careers.php
- Mizza 14y agoIs there some kind of voting ring for all of the blog posts in this style? How is this lame-o piece at #2 on the front page? It seems that the posts with this theme have been on the front page a whole lot lately. /tinfoil hat
- reason 14y agoIt happens with almost every one of his posts.
- jsprinkles 14y agoFrankly, I have no idea who he is, and I tend to respect opinions more if they're based in real experiences rather than observation (not to say I don't respect well-argued opinions from observation, it's just relative). It's a mystery to dig into who he is, too, and the best I've been able to find is this: http://www.dustincurtis.com/about.html http://www.dustincurtis.com/about.html Which just says, vaguely, that he's a neuroscience student who "put his degree on hold". Anybody know who this guy is, and why his opinion is this important to HN and 35,000 Twitter followers? Honestly, I'm just curious. Is this guy some kind of valley culture icon? I've noticed the same trend of all of his posts hitting the front page of HN. [Since you're in this thread, now: Dustin, a quick "who I am" page which isn't a million pixels wide and describes more about yourself and your goals would go a long way toward credibility. Unless you're a pseudonym, and I respect that (look at my username), but your about page leads me to believe otherwise.]
- mehulkar 14y agoThe first time I heard of him was when he redesigned the American Airlines website. http://www.dustincurtis.com/dear_american_airlines.html http://www.dustincurtis.com/dear_american_airlines.html He's a good designer and I tend to read what he says because svbtle is just so nice to look at. I suspect that 99% of my decision of whether or not to read something has to do with how easy it is to read it.
- dcurtis 14y agoI honestly have no idea. I don't do anything to promote Svbtle articles on HN. I don't think this post is worthy of Hacker News, so I haven't voted for it.
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- compnerd 14y agoThis is a clip from a 60 Minutes interview. The amount of passion and determination in this clip, is absolutely breathtaking. http://youtu.be/H3u0IIQj6FY?t=11m13s http://youtu.be/H3u0IIQj6FY?t=11m13s
- astrofinch 14y agoDoes anyone else somehow get the idea that Elon Musk never gets tired?
- jeremyarussell 14y agoHe doesn't have time to be tired. He's making electric cars and spaceships.
- bane 14y agoDon't forget that he's also trying to power things with the sun! A future built by Musk, quite frankly, sounds awesome.
- itmag 14y agoElon Musk doesn't get tired. Fatigue gets elonmusked.
- mehulkar 14y agoThe fact that he chokes up and finds it difficult that Neil Armstrong has testified against his work makes him so human and makes me respect him so much more.
- hencq 14y agoI really hope he gets an apology from Neil Armstrong and other critics if (when) SpaceX actually delivers on its promises. It must be very tough to even have your heroes root against you, and like you say it shows a lot about what you stand for.
- mkramlich 14y agoI made basically the same point yesterday, and used the same interview quote from Elon Musk, in a Google Plus post.