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Sometimes its possible to care so much that you lose sight of what is important. This happened to Elon. I think this will be a case study someday about CEO ethics. I found it very interesting that when he was on the Joe Rogan podcast he had so much to say about social media, and none of it was complementary. How he did not see the dichotomy of his twitter use and this situation strikes me as humorous. I feel like Elon needs to find some new handlers and get some team members that can keep him from shooting himself in the foot.

I only recently got back on twitter. I do not use my likeness or use it for any other reason except to find out about things I consume(stand up comedy, concerts, etc). Twitter is a great platform for that. Its an awful platform for speaking your mind when you run a company(or the country)

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Ethics? While true I think it will be more of a case study on sleep deprivation and the increased risk of making huge mistaken even for a "genius." I'm willing to bed 2hrs of extra sleep a day and delegating a bit more to have these 2hrs would have not only minimized these stupid mistakes, but obviously greatly increased his well-being and life-expectancy. In short, no matter how smart you are, if you have so much hubris that you think you can bend the laws of nature and do without sleep and ignore what your body is telling you, you will end up making a horrible mistake soone r or later.

Yes, he seemed to be sleep deprived in that Rogan podcast.

Considering he’s also facing a defamation suit for calling a man a pedophile on Twitter, and then doubling down on the claim later, I think we can afford to be less charitable about Musk at this point. He has an inexplicably fragile ego, whether it’s in relation to his PR move around those trapped kids and the people who actually saved them, and his conspiratorial ideation concerning “the shorts,” or his willingness to tank his own stock to lash out.

He doesn’t come across as caring too much about anything except his ego.

"I'm using social media the right way, the others are doing it wrong and I wish they'd go away". Always the same line of thinking.

I could take your comment as either a dig at me or at Elon. I can see how either is applicable(and valid). I think I can just add that if I screw up on Twitter, there would not be the same consequences to a business or shareholders that Elon may face, but obviously it is not my place to tell him or anyone else they are doing it wrong.

"I'm using social media the right way, the others are doing it wrong and I wish they'd go away"

"We're using our sovereign power and military force the right way. The others are doing it wrong, and we wish they'd go away."

Same old story. In one of Raymond Smullyan's books, there was a story of a word the US codebreakers in WWII couldn't quite translate. In the end, they settled on "pro-Japanese" as a shaky translation. Years later, a retired codebreaker is talking to a retired Japanese soldier, and is told that the code term meant, "sincere."

Ive said really stupid stuff on Twitter and I lost fans as a result.

I cannot explain myself in only a few hundred characters, especially when people dont click links, or only see a small portion of the situation.

I did learn my lesson in my 20s.

twitter wasn't around when we were in our 20s...

I can't speak for everyone, but I for one am glad about that

yes indeed!

"Sometimes its possible to care so much that you lose sight of what is important."

Oh come on.

Not sure what you think is wrong with this statement. Seems to me that he let his hubris, lack of sleep and desire to stop the short sellers get in the way of using a bit of discernment. For him that tweet was a weapon against the shorts. I have no reason to doubt that he is fully committed to Tesla being successful, so I stand by the statement.

Yayy. Elon fan boys unite!

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