There is obviously a lot of smart and creative people in tech, but they suffer from an Achilles Heel trio of weaknesses: self-perceived idealism as excuse, overconfidence in their capabilities outside their own areas of expertise, and lack of attentiveness to details and harms.
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In the comments for my piece, some Musk fans think people like me are just ungrateful for the saviors who steps up. I hope this thread explains it more—nobody is ungrateful. But the worst thing to do to a famous/rich person is to be their uncritical fan.https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/14/opinion/sunday/elon-musk-thailand-hubris.html …
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I do seem to have a zillion of them defending Musk with enormous zeal right now in my mentions because he replied to this thread, and I wouldn't wish this kind of fame and fan-base on my worst enemy.



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The rescuer I've quoted in the first tweet made the "PR-stunt" comment re:Musk's sub, not me. That diver is not a bystander—if someone made a movie, I'd make him the key character. Still, he clearly spoke out in irritation and I was trying to explain why.https://twitter.com/TMclaughlin3/status/1018514508598276096 …
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But my piece—and this thread—is an attempt to go beyond the irritations of the moment and discuss what the tech world could learn from the slow, iterative and deeper safety cultures—but there's a lot to recommend to the can-do optimism in Silicon Valley. Not in isolation, though.
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I’m dumbfounded by this. I’d understand getting mad at me (whatev
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Seems Musk has deleted his inflammatory tweets & his responses to me.
That makes it hard to follow threads so here's my screenshots on why developing a back-up option QUIETLY is great but doing it with gobs of publicity has potential for harm. https://twitter.com/zeynep/status/1018498560789286912 …pic.twitter.com/VyIx0gPsxs
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If I may offer a striking parallel here. NASA's Apollo spacesuit was made possible not by NASA engineers but by seamstresses who made girdles for Playtex. Engineers need to listen to those with institutional knowledge.https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/spacesuit
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@zeynep Your article is on point! It makes no mention of some other crucial aspects of the rescue op such as this that happened effectively, behind the scenes and without fanfarehttps://twitter.com/shuchig/status/1017575166275043328 …
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I want to know more abt those Thai farmers who let their fields be flooded & how we can support them. Their selflessness coupled w heroism of expert cave divers, Navy Seals-- even the volunteer cooks feeding everyone, spoke volumes to me. Just epic. All that is right w the world.
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i'd watch a movie about the TWA investigation.
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Absolutely. (I was once reading about some airplane crash investigation, really deep into it, and then I looked up and saw the frightened eyes of my seatmates... on the plane. I'm so chill about commercial airline safety that I forgot & freaked them out
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