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> Just once, I'd love to see Tesla be honest. "We have no idea if we're ever going to be able to make these at this point."

But Elon said it'll all blow over by May (2020). Hard to admit you're wrong when your personality is built around always being right.

On a less cynical note, it's a cool car and I hope it gets built.

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> your personality is built around always being right.

Amazing how effective this is. There is a C level executive at the Unicorn I work at that tweets Musk daily asking him for help or advice, of course getting no response. It's as if it's some sort of daily prayer.

The cringeyness of this story is palpable. The tweets must be hilarious to read, though.

Sounds like one of those "VC congratulate themselves" twitters where a bot goes through and surfaces good ones.

I've always wondered why celebs like Elon tweet. Do people not have close friends? Or is it that when Elon tweets he only sees his friends respond? All I see are troll accounts responding and it makes me wonder why anyone busy bothers.

I'd pull the ripcord if the leadership is that prone to inanity.

Yeah, I'm just trying to be really picky with my next company so the job hunt is taking a while.

> It's as if it's some sort of daily prayer.

That's probably the whole point of it. Ask yourself daily: WWMD? "What Would Musk Do?"

impossible to say, since he hasn't gotten back to a single tweet

The irony of a developer website where everyone is pissed at somebody else's inability to do good estimates.

> But Elon said it'll all blow over by May (2020). Hard to admit you're wrong when your personality is built around always being right.

If that's how Elon Musk thinks, he really needs to read that website that compiled all his broken promises (and how overdue he was).

Though, who knows, he might be so delusional that it wouldn't have any effect (e.g. like Trump seems to be).

Perhaps his personality is built around being confidant, not necessarily right.

I’m not a Elon Musk fan at all, but I thought it’s well known to pretty much add a factor of 10x to whatever his timelines or estimates are?

Though I would disagree with his personality built on being right - it’s built on being a futuristic visionary problem solver. Whether he’s actually solving problems, and whether they even need to be solved, that’s up for debate.

I am not a Musk fanboy either, but you probably haven’t seen the recent 3 part video “Starbase tour with Elon Musk”.

He states at least once that he is wrong all the time. At other moments he says other similar things (but sometimes more related to engeneering for example: “All designs are wrong… just a matter of how wrong”).

But I have to agree, before seeing that video I didn’t see him being so open to being wrong, and also not as technically involved or at least knowledgeable…

Near miss.

"Step one: Make the requirements less dumb. The requirements are definitely dumb; it does not matter who gave them to you. It’s particularly dangerous when they come from an intelligent person, as you may not question them enough. Everyone’s wrong. No matter who you are, everyone is wrong some of the time. All designs are wrong, it’s just a matter of how wrong."

https://mondaynote.com/what-makes-elon-musk-move-so-fast-8e7...

> But Elon said it'll all blow over by May (2020).

So did a lot of people, including myself. I wasn't expecting people/government to react the way they did.

I read a lot about last century’s pandemic flu and in most cases people and governments reacted similarly, including the anti-mask protests and politicization.

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