What does Elon musk do *really*? He has people to manage his companies so he has to manage those. He has vision, first principles thinking and risk appetite. He’s chief meme officer. What else? Seems like the latter is his comparative advantage
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Most engineers are lucky if their orientations on problem strategy are solid 15-20% of the time. I’m not talking technical skill. That’s “doing the thing right.” I’m talking “doing the [technically] right thing.” No comment on socially/morally.
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This is especially galling to technical geniuses who tend to get attached to the cleverest problems that show off their abilities, and get that confused with “important.” He’s not a genius in that sense. So doesn’t fall into that trap.
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> Very solid orientation in tech OODA loop. Interesting that it generalizes across (tech) fields. Any idea why he has it and (most? all?) others not?
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Maybe the habit of iterating is built more easily in the software field? The cost of an iteration can be very low.
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I was a doubter on SpaceX initially. Suspected that “needing too many engines” was an anti-pattern, like in the Soviet N1 case. But EM brought an optimiser’s approach, maybe from software: get something working at all, then make it better.
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Hard to ignore after the first F1 flight, impossible after the first F9 booster re-use.
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some elon doubters i encountered think he just leeched of scientists or other people, and is taking credit despite having created 0 value and invented nothing its usually the same people super critical of billioneres and such
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