We'll lay aside for a moment the fact that he clearly did not talk to anyone involved in the rescue because they already said they didn't need his submarine. This is a man for whom money is such a nonissue that it didn't even occur to him that it might be useful to his users.
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When engineers and builders only build products for whom we're the intended user, we end up leaving a lot of impactful work on the table. It is good to build where the need is. But when we're not the user, we need to talk to the user, not assume we know better.
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Those jokes about "someone's out there trying to solve wildfires with blockchain" apply here. If what you want to do is play with tech you like, have fun! But if what you want to do is help people, you go where the need is. You talk to the users.
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This is pretty much ALWAYS true, not just during crises. But when you treat people's lives as an excuse to build toys during a crisis, you're expecting them to be grateful that you spent resources they could have used on something useless.
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More and more, whenever I see Elon musk‘s name, I think about Tom Swift. Maybe he thinks he’s the modern, real Tom Swift… If you don’t know those books, skip them. I am old.
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"What we really need to save those kids is some kind of underwater citrus," Elon said sublimely.
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He thinks he's Tony Stark
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I made this same comparison earlier. That or Bruce Wayne...
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The person who told him his assistance wasn't needed was the actual person in charge of overall operations, not the lead diver...Musk's protests to the contrary, he arrived uninvited with an unasked-for solution to something already being solved.
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