Musk is exciting for what he does, not his bloviating.<p>He's a low EQ high EQ guy that has a bulldozer personality and work ethic. If you want to learn from watching what he <i>does</i> professionally, you'll probably learn a lot. If you try to learn from what he <i>says</i>, if it isn't about technical aspects of his machines, you're in for a bunch of poor examples of how to be a good person.<p>He reminds me a lot of Linus Torvalds, exceptional individual who contributions have changed the world, but like all of us humans, with a variety of warts in how he interacts with others.<p>Main thing to remember- from George Washington to Einstein to Ghandi- there isn't a human that you can model all aspects of your life on, no uber-virtuous genius- each of us has different strengths and weaknesses and we need to pick and choose examples for our areas of need.
"Don't outsource your thinking"... here are 580 words with <i>my</i> thinking on what <i>you</i> should think about thinking ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
That's absolutely hilarious. The blog post is all "I don't want to know what the 5 things are, and I wont watch the clip because I don't care what Elon thinks, because I should think for myself and do what matters to me even if it's not a major problem for civilization", and Elon's actual initial suggestion right at the beginning of the clip is saying _exactly_ the same thing.<p>Classic.
I love how people think Elon is "evil" when it's clear people who interpret his banter this way have 100% fallen for his trolling.<p>I chuckle at "journalists" / people who snidely respond to his tweets thinking he cares about their opinion. Twitter is obviously pure entertainment for Mr. Musk. And yes, I fully acknowledge Tesla is a shit show and would never want to work there - a good friend of mine works at Tesla and confirms this all the time lmao.
everybody outsources their thinking to some extent. It is nice if people can have a sort of overview of their own thoughts to understand how they have outsourced it.
One think I think people really don't seem to grok about Elon is that fundamentally he's a pretty silly guy, just look at his Twitter, he may have accomplished a lot, but much of what he says and does is just not meant to be taken seriously and essentially pranking.
I have a lot of respect for his accomplishments, but I find his public persona quite obnoxious. That's not a particularly novel opinion of him, and there are a lot of famous people out there like that. After a little bit of reflection, I actually came to realize I'd probably be the same way, spouting unsolicited opinions and throwaway memes, if I had a massive internet following that considered me a genius. And it makes me a little glad I'm not famous. I much prefer my obnoxious opinions being tied to a random alias that nobody can be bothered to stalk.
He said in that clip that everything that creates value is valuable, it doesn't have to change the world in any big way. I donno, he specifically got asked the question and I think the answer is probably the most correct one as well.<p>If you just listen to what other people say and try to follow that yeah, that is outsourcing your thinking. But do people really study and start an AI company just because Elon Musk thinks this is a big thing for the future?
A sizeable portion this site is dedicated to the teachings of Josh Waitzkin, to whom the author (even if we're being very charitable) has clearly outsourced at least some thinking. I really think people would be better off cutting out productivity and startup porn entirely tbh, as much as I enjoy Josh's story.
Down-votes ahoy! I've never once cared with Elon Musk has had to say. The image he paints is one of a rich arrogant prick who creates false pedophilic allegations, spews immature humor to caress a younger crowd and snobs on the poor. He's a selfless-egotistic sociopath with money who doesn't care about anything apart from himself. He has no good nature; there is nothing about his personality that you should admire.<p>However I do make assumption you've got to own these traits if you ever want to make bank.<p>Prove me wrong.