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Is he working though?? It seems to me that he just spends all day on twitter. Not all that different from myself actually, except no one is writing books and stories about me and my mythical 100 hour work weeks.

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I suspect he is working but probably has a very short attention span.

There is no way a person in his position has any time for focus. CEOs of big companies (especially in case they manage multiple companies!) usually act as firefighters and mainly mentors to top-management. They need to be able to quickly jump between calls, board meetings, press, Q&A, in matter of minutes.

Something very similar is also written in Cal Newport's Deep Work book, where Jack Dorsey's typical day is outlined just as a series of interruptions.

I guess that tweeting between these interactions is not that time-consuming for him, + he actually sleeps at the workplace and is 100% focused on work.

Nah, he is just yet another incompetent person who became rich mostly due this parents. He cultivated an image in f being a genius and it worked for a long while, but with Twitter he showed his true capabilities because he had no one who did the actual work.

There’s an interesting dive into his educational and work background floating around Twitter right now; it sounds like he lied about his college degree and was working in the U.S. illegally for a while as a young adult.

Amphetamine addiction can cause impulsive behavior and allow a person to work abnormal hours

That's been my theory about Musk and SBF for a while. Both the behaviors and the physical tics that accompany it.

Cocaine addict may be behind long hours for medical doctors: "Fledgling residents had to suffer long, consecutive work shifts, day and night. To Halsted, sleep was a dispensable luxury that detracted from the ability to work and learn. Halsted’s mentality was difficult to argue with, since he himself practiced what he preached, being renowned for a seemingly superhuman ability to stay awake for apparently days on end without any fatigue. Only after Halsted’s death did a secret come to light that explained the maniacal structure of his residency program and his ability to forgo sleep. Halsted was a cocaine addict" https://medicaljustice.com/a-century-of-brutal-call-schedule...

Thanks, that article was wild.

It's only 9am and he's already tweeted several times this morning about random nonsense - including a complaint about congress ignoring the FTX fiasco overlaid over an image of two Rhinos having intercourse. Which is another misleading claim as FTX is being actively investigated by DoJ and SEC lol: https://www.economist.com/briefing/2022/11/17/the-failure-of...

Does he think it's not happening because there isn't a leaked play by play on Twitter?

It’s bizarre that his tweeting pattern these days is blatant misinformation (mostly Republican propaganda) interspersed with the occasional “twitter is the best source of news, better than all the fake journalists”.

Anyone like Musk who has enough time to delve into and write posts about Pelosi hammer attack conspiracy theories is spending way too much time on social media.

You're not the richest person alive with multiple 100B+ companies

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