Elon Musk on Running Tesla Motors and SpaceX

This whole article was light on hard content, but had some great ideas expressed well. For example:

Professional managers—MBA CEOs—are not very creative or adaptable, and their skills don't suit a startup. Business is like a multidimensional probabilistic chessboard. The rules aren't set, and the same moves don't always make you win. A lot of people can be really good in a set-piece battle; my biggest differentiating skill is I can invent new pieces.

expresses an idea that most can't articulate well, but seems intuitively true.

this quote was golden:

"Business is like a multidimensional probabilistic chessboard. The rules aren't set, and the same moves don't always make you win. A lot of people can be really good in a set-piece battle; my biggest differentiating skill is I can invent new pieces."

Really shows you how he thinks. And I think he's correct too. And life is like that, in general, not just business. One big multidimensional probabilistic chessboard. Or perhaps a Rube Goldberg machine, where parts of the machine are not completely ludicrous. Part of the reason why I'm building a startup that simulates life. Because making models of multidimensional probabilistic Rube Goldbergian chessboards is fun!

The article just ended, felt like the author got half way done and just stopped.

Commercial from SpaceX on Mars mission: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6p6EruPdoXY

One thing I love about what this guy has done is the fact that he actually sees this stuff through. He didn't just talk about these ideas - he made them happen. It's one thing to do that for a Web site that two guys build in a room. It's quite another to literally put a rocket in orbit.

liked his comment on Patents.

Well, I'm on board. I knew the name, but until now I didn't know how impressed I should be.

Thanks.