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> Yes, Elon is very sane. tbf, a 'sane' person wouldn't have started a rocket company and an ev company, at the same time, in a recession. He has never been s
by ryzvonusef 5mo ago
> Yes, Elon is very sane.
tbf, a 'sane' person wouldn't have started a rocket company and an ev company, at the same time, in a recession.
He has never been sane. and that has made all the difference.
- fulafel 5mo agoTesla and SpaceX were both founded outside of recessions about 1 year apart, between the early 2000's recession and the great recession.
- illiac786 5mo agoYou are saying he got lucky? That doesn’t necessarily mean he will continue to be lucky.
- onehair 5mo agoThey mean, to attempt things that seem very difficult to normies like you and me, and be successful at it, one needs to be insane.
- kamaal 5mo agoI think Elon Musk is quite literally the living example of what high agency lifesytle would look like. One could argue he likely knew way less than your day job rocket scientist or battery experts when he started out. But these people believe so as long something is not impossible by known physics it is doable, and hence there is a way to get it done. And then they do it. That is you wake up everyday, and do whatever it take to get things done. You keep moving forward, you keep taking the next steps. Of course you need lots of other aspects of human enterprise like tenacity, productivity etc for all this. But once you get the root value right, all things descend from there on.
- marcus_holmes 5mo agoI think you mean "luck"
- kamaal 5mo agoUnfortunately that is also how luck works as well. You are lucky if you think you are, start on this path you are likely to increasing make choices that tend towards increasing your chances of success(i.e luck).
- grey-area 5mo agoHe didn’t found Tesla, he bought it then called himself founder.
- throw310822 5mo agoThat's pointless nitpicking, when he bought it it was so early you can easily say he made everything of it.
- ben_w 5mo agoThe other side of the coin of praising him personally for success like that, is blaming him personally for everything that goes wrong, like Cybertruck being simultaneously late and far more expensive than announced and far worse than announced and that even the announcement itself wasn't well done, or the majority of this Wikipedia page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_predictions_for_autonomous_Tesla_vehicles_by_Elon_Musk https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_predictions_for_autono... With Tesla, Musk invested in a neat startup, where the original founders didn't have the right skills to make it work and/or it was too soon for the tech, Musk managed to get the right talent in to turn the loss-maker and laughing stock into a decent middling output car company. That's fantastic! But it also isn't what Tesla is seen as by those who idolise Musk: he didn't make everything out of it; and even with all the talent, he found he got lucky that battery tech advanced as fast as it did and made EVs viable when they did.
- throw310822 5mo agoMusk's accomplishment was absolutely astonishing in betting on a completely immature market and bringing a tiny startup to the giant that is today. Then stuff like the cybertruck for me mark the moment when he completely lost it.
- grey-area 5mo agoI don't think so, I think it's an important point, and he thinks it's an important point because he tried to pretend he did found Tesla by claiming that title officially when he bought it, which I find duplicitous and underhand, something of a pattern with Elon Musk in his business dealings. He did a great job building that company up, but is now ruining it with a series of really bad decisions and appears to operate more on hype than tangible progress nowadays.