He started a car company when everyone said it was impossible.
He started a rocket company when everyone said it was super hard.
He made that rocket company land the first stages, when everyone thought it was impossible.
He's an ass, but you can't argue with the results. Twisting some of his words out of context might feel good because you can bash on the outgroup, but it also makes you look silly and makes your group (MY GROUP!) look bad. Please stop.
> He's an ass, but you can't argue with the results.
I wasn't. None of your reply is even relevant to mine.
I'm just opposed to the idea pushed by the "positivity cult" that one's personal attitude is more important than the truth, and it's better to be wrong than right if wrongness comes with optimism.
I actually suspect that Musk is not consistent in his stated views, and he doesn't allow his subordinate engineers to be consistently wrong but overly optimistic. At least I hope not.
You seem to want to talk about his accomplishments. But wouldn't that make him optimistic and right? The tweet, on the other hand, is talking about being optimistic and wrong. You have clearly misunderstood the concept... Perhaps you're under the misapprehension that what he does outside of social media justifies the stuff he says on social media? That isn't true.
Incidentally, "everyone said"/"everyone thought" is almost always an exaggeration/falsehood.
> I actually suspect that Musk is not consistent in his stated views, and he doesn't allow his subordinate engineers to be consistently wrong but overly optimistic. At least I hope not.
Yea, context is everything. You should watch the interview he did with Everyday Astronaut where the interviewer made him redesign Starship with a question. There are tons of good lessons and self reflection in there.
He started a rocket company when everyone said it was super hard.
He made that rocket company land the first stages, when everyone thought it was impossible.
He's an ass, but you can't argue with the results. Twisting some of his words out of context might feel good because you can bash on the outgroup, but it also makes you look silly and makes your group (MY GROUP!) look bad. Please stop.