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Elizabeth Holmes was the Steve Jobs knock off, but Musk is kinda his own knockoff 🤔 The real deal and the humbug pretender rolled into one, and you never quite know which one you’re getting
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Actually he doesn’t seem to know either. Midwit imposters often find themselves out of their depth, but Musk seems to barbell between bottom-wit and top-wit. And when he’s bottom-witting something it feels like he’s not so much out of his depth as missing an entire salient level.
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Confidence at the wrong abstraction level strikes again 🤔
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Logging an idea that seems important for future reference. A lot of shaky thinking is marked by what @bysl referred to as “confidence at the wrong abstraction level”
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Tesla shorts misread Tesla as a bottom-wit thing, and even Matt Levine and other biz analysts I think fundamentally don’t get the depth of accomplishment at Tesla, in their hurry to prematurely declare EV tech a commodity. Now I strongly suspect the reverse mistake is being made.
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The basic challenge if he expects to vault from current bottom-wit twitter ideas to top wit is that people, unlike batteries or rockets, are fundamentally a midwit raw material. If you don’t get that in social media, you’ll try to create a top+bottom wit social thing that folds
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