I see in Elon a trait I also have, which is to pick up random things, get interested in them for a while, and start to do things, and then realize you're not interested in it at all and drop it. I'm thinking of tunnels, neuralink, AI, taking Tesla private, child saving cave submarine, things like that. I can easily imagine he thought one day that he wanted to get into social media, went full steam ahead, and then realized he wasn't all that interested.
It's bad, clearly, when this has negative externalities. A better Elon would stop himself from hurting people with these adventures - but, I also think it's possible that without this trait, whatever you call it, Elon wouldn't have made the progress in the areas he has. On net I think he's still done a tremendous amount.
It's bad, clearly, when this has negative externalities. A better Elon would stop himself from hurting people with these adventures - but, I also think it's possible that without this trait, whatever you call it, Elon wouldn't have made the progress in the areas he has. On net I think he's still done a tremendous amount.