“Some think, Some do, Some both, But few”.

Got that from a lecturer.

There’s loads of great content on YouTube for example, with channels doing genuine and interesting science and experimentation in public. Channels like Breaking Taps, Journey to the Microcosmos, The Thought Emporium, all come to mind, for me. I’m sure you can think of others.

More hackernews-coded, perhaps, there’s also lots of cool small blogs positing some pretty neat ideas… although, sites like YouTube might arguably provide easier access to finance for sustaining these people!

Then progress exploded! Quality of life massively expanded.

Now: a slowdown. Stuff still gets made yet we feel disenchanted.

It never stopped being a good time to planting more idea-seeds.

Tenure sounds a lot like basic income. Maybe it’s a coincidence.

The two 2-hour hard thinking hours chart was the most useful takeaway for me.

The opposite makes sense too, a vector with magnitude but no direction isn't super useful on its own either.

At some levels there is no line anymore.

> Built an EV car company, operating at scale

He bought into a pre-existing company.

> Produced batteries for those cars at scale

How is the 4680 going? And is BYD eating its lunch yet? Last I looked they losing court cases over a particular dry cathode patent.

And well, BYD's new fast charging tech is far more performant than Tesla superchargers, multiple car makers (including Tesla!) are using their batteries not the 4680, so...

> Launched brand new self-made rockets to space, at scale, including catching them on a ship when they fell back from the sky!

That is indeed pretty cool, but did Elon actually do that? Also, how's Starship looking? Can it take more payload to orbit than a Falcon Heavy yet? Is it exploding less often?

> Bored tunnels cheaply

[citations really needed] If they can do this, the Boring Company isn't capitalising on it, I see a lot of cancelled projects, and only one where the public actually uses it (in Las Vegas).

But hey, Elon's definitely a doer, just you know, sometimes he's doing things that are very bad for the companies involved.

If he could stop trying to micromanage his companies, and just trust the very very very smart people who work there, and maybe I dunno, turn back time and not get radicalised on the Internet because his child transitioned, and avoid getting involved in politics in the absolute worst way possible, he'd accomplish so much more.

Someone once told me that Tesla and SpaceX largely succeeded in spite of Elon, and it rings true.

But I feel mean-spirited commenting this on a 3 year old post, that feels like an eternity ago in the Muskverse.

Except slop prompters, no one needs those except the AI priests.

The real gist is in IV/V and you can easily skip directly to it. Or something still evades me.

It's only when your start doing that you find out the things you never would have thought about.

Do things before you've made up your mind so you don't have time to regret it.