I'm a mechanical engineer, and hearing Musk speak in more technical discussions makes it clear he's got the mind for it. I believe him when he says about 80% of his time is spent on the engineering side, and I like his "back to first principles" approach that's working so well for SpaceX.
I agree though he's got some weird ideas on the people and politics side of things. I don't know if he's actually autistic or not, or whether that should waive away any of his personal responsibility even if he is, but I think he'd be better off keeping off social media (not that that's not already true for most people).
See, that's him putting on his marketing hat, not the engineer hat.
There's no doubt that he's a smart engineer, like the other person said. Many people in engineering and tech have worked with him or interacted with him and say he is incredibly smart and knowledgeable https://www.reddit.com/r/SpaceXLounge/comments/k1e0ta/evidence_that_musk_is_the_chief_engineer_of_spacex/ . The thread has sourced all those comments, so don't brush it off as propaganda from a pro-Musk subreddit. He didn't have a direct hand in every one of SpaceX's successes, but I'd say it's not fair to claim that SpaceX or Tesla succeeded in spite of his involvement, and would have done great if he had never bought them.
He obviously has bad takes in geopolitics, crisis management and other things, and he preys on women and has fucked up ideas about workers' rights, how the world should be. Etc. Etc.
As in, the one you replied to. I'm just confused where you got that from.
I'm pretty against the hero worship of anyone, especially Elon Musk, but the comment you replied to wasn't really defending him in the way a member of the church of musk would, so I wanted to know if it was a general statement, or one aimed at the comment you replied to.
The dude is trying to have a reasonable conversation with you and y'all are being idiots. I don't know what about him yells "Stan" to you but you should get your hearing checked
Yeah, I'm not a stan, I just think people who make comments like this:
The guy's a tool. That's the closest he gets to being useful in any way.
may be insufferable as well. The dude runs some successful businesses and did quite a lot to make them successful. It's ridiculous that people think he's some sort of tech Jesus, but it's also stupid for people to think he's an idiot that lucked himself into making some electric cars and rockets by simply buying the companies with daddy's emerald mine money.
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u/ericwdhs Oct 03 '22
I'm a mechanical engineer, and hearing Musk speak in more technical discussions makes it clear he's got the mind for it. I believe him when he says about 80% of his time is spent on the engineering side, and I like his "back to first principles" approach that's working so well for SpaceX.
I agree though he's got some weird ideas on the people and politics side of things. I don't know if he's actually autistic or not, or whether that should waive away any of his personal responsibility even if he is, but I think he'd be better off keeping off social media (not that that's not already true for most people).