I’m very fond of that quote by tytler myself.

He is the modern day Charlie Munger. Sucking the fat cock of the money printers while acting noble.

Of course I haven't worked with him either, but it is not difficult to prove he has excellent engineering skills. Just watch some videos with him, he is such a terrible speaker that it is 100% sure that his texts are not scripted, but he can explain many things (electric cars, rockets, AI, you-name-it) in very detail, more detail than any other CEO of a multi-billion company is able to. You can also watch videos with other engineers or tech-journalists (who have worked with him or interviewed him) talking about him, like Tim Dodd and numerous others. So, no, it is not only "hearing and saying".

Your are probably right about the narrativ thing, but actually he is both a founder and an engineer, and a quite good one. Yes he was not at Tesla from day 1, but still it is only fair to consider him a co-founder of Tesla, it was a little garage company by then with a crap product.

Still I'd listen very carefully what he says because you need to read between the lines...

Too many people have given Elon a pass. Don't give him a pass.

He's a marketer, not a founder or an engineer. He didn't found PayPal or Tesla; he bought into them early. He's good at selling narratives and equity valuation for perpetually unprofitable companies.

Everything for him is a narrative. His green revolution was a narrative to sell more cars and get more subsidies. His bitcoin purchase was to gain appeal among bitcoin/crypto people in a bull market. And he shilled doge like a dumbass. His SpaceX narrative is to get money from the government.

His rooftop solar thing was an outright scam; the technology isn't ready and went nowhere because of that. His full-self-driving-in-an-intermediate-term timeline was a scam, and is going nowhere because of that. He makes scams to draw people and capital in, because for him it's all about narratives and equity valuation.

And then he dug unproductive holes, suggested unproductive hyper-tubes, built meme flamethrowers, for what? It's a narrative, not a business. None of this is real productive shit to make peoples' lives better.

His latest "we need free speech" narrative was a scam too. He tapped into something real, which is what marketers do and why it kind of worked. Yes, we need free speech. Yes, Twitter had censorship issues. He saw that and jumped on it maliciously rather than productively.

But what did he replace it with? He replaced it with arbitrary journalist censorship about his private jet, arbitrary censorship of Substack, selective Twitter Files release, won't talk seriously about any of his China connections because Xi Jinping fucking owns him economically there like Jack Ma, has his balls firmly in his grasp, etc.

Elon's playing the narrative, the anti-woke meme of the day. He's a master meme-momentum-player. Don't fall for it.

Any chance you'll stop selling fear porn? Or at least keep it for twitter? Nostr is a pretty positive experience, far more positive builders than observers that only see the negatives.

Isn’t #[6] just an angel who was anarchist and rebelled against the authoritarian government in heaven?

Can I suggest you get to know #[6] ? He’s one of your angles right?

Bitcoin was the lense that I was finally able to see and follow Christ using. Edgy atheists gonna atheist. Informed atheists tend to have significantly more palatable takes.

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