I'm a bit uneasy about using it even if it has been "reclaimed". If they themselves want to use it though, go ahead.
Elon Musk's epic bacon adventures
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Yeah, I get that.
Being shipped off to Rwanda now
Bezos?
Amazon and basically reinventing logistics (prime etc) / supply chain but also Amazon Robotics, Amazon Web services, Amazon TV ... Groceries now as well - (certainly a long way from online books)
Blue Origin
Biotech with AltosLabs
Washington Post
and a bunch of other investments through his venture capital company
Page and Brin are certainly a bit under the radar compared to people like Musk, Zuckerberg or Gates, maybe you need to have this sort of polarizing personality if you want to get known today?
It was the same with Steve Jobs and Dennis Ritchie.
Dennis Ritchie was not an entrepreneur to be fair. He was just (probably) the most impactful programmer of all time.
Page by all accounts is an introvert, and for the last few years they have essentially retired.
Does he want to buy a football club?
Because several people called me out for labeling Musk a polymath.
I found quite some interesting articles that I mostly agree with and that show that calling him a polymath is at least not totally out of this world
I found quite some interesting articles that I mostly agree with and that show that calling him a polymath is at least not totally out of this world
- https://medium.com/accelerated-intelligence/modern-polymath-81f882ce52db
- https://www.quora.com/Is-Elon-Musk-a-polymath
- https://www.inc.com/marcel-schwantes/elon-musk-how-to-become-an-expert-in-any-field.html
- https://medium.com/accelerated-intelligence/learn-like-elon-musk-fe8f8da6137c (this article talks about his childhood and his thirst for knowledge from a very young age, it was one of the most interesting parts in his biography imo)
- https://www.thebioneer.com/think-li...d-changing-intellect-elon-musk-deconstructed/
- https://intenseminimalism.com/2015/where-are-the-polymaths-hiding/
You are posting medium articles and quora post to prove some point. That’s same level as Facebook posts.Because several people called me out for labeling Musk a polymath.
I found quite some interesting articles that I mostly agree with and that show that calling him a polymath is at least not totally out of this world
However I'd say calling Musk a polymath or not depends on the definition of the word "polymath" regarding todays science and all the knowledge humankind assembled.
- https://medium.com/accelerated-intelligence/modern-polymath-81f882ce52db
- https://www.quora.com/Is-Elon-Musk-a-polymath
- https://www.inc.com/marcel-schwantes/elon-musk-how-to-become-an-expert-in-any-field.html
- https://medium.com/accelerated-intelligence/learn-like-elon-musk-fe8f8da6137c (this article talks about his childhood and his thirst for knowledge from a very young age, it was one of the most interesting parts in his biography imo)
- https://www.thebioneer.com/think-li...d-changing-intellect-elon-musk-deconstructed/
- https://intenseminimalism.com/2015/where-are-the-polymaths-hiding/
There's people spreading bullshit and people sharing good content on every platform, what's your point?
Should all information on Twitter be dismissed just because there are many bots, trolls and extremists on all ends of the spectrum?
I know I should probably feel the same about all sorts of idolatry (musicians, footballers, whatever) but I find idolising soon-to-be trillionaires so much more cringeworthy.
They don't call him a polymath because google/gmail/youtube/chrome/cloud all come under the same bracket. You can even partially extend that to AI and auto driving. As someone who has worked on a few similar technologies over the years, I can say they might sound very different but the underlying expertise needed is very much similar if not same. Its not even a patch on Musk' diversity.
I am not going to defend him to death, but I don't think the Google founders are a good counter example.
I really don't get this strict separation "he's not a polymath at all, he's just a good entrepreneur in several vastly different industries".
Almost every entrepreneur and startup guide tells you that the most important aspects for being a good entrepreneur are ambition and deep knowledge of the industry/domain/product/whatever.
How can he be so successful as an entrepreneur in so many industries without deep knowledge about it?
Some posts ago I shared a story where he impressed two of his then most important engineers with constructions and budget plans for building rockets at Space X. Various Tesla engineers and software developers talked about being impressed with his technical knowledge. Take a look at many TV interviews or shareholder meetings where he was confronted with very specific technical questions and answered them with ease.
Many in here act like he did his MBA and juggles with numbers all day. I'm not saying he is the greatest engineer or developer every, but reducing him to being just a good business man just shows, that you didn't really took your time reading about him and probably just don't like him because of his antics on social media (which I also don't like and don't get because it only leads to many people dismissing his achievements, like in this thread).
Why is he so hated on the caf?
Because he was Ole in
His dad owned an emerald mine in South Africa with links to apartheid. It's the only reason he had money to even start things with basically zero risk.
Called that diver who rescued the cave boys a paedo.
Pays very little tax afaik and lobbies against tax changes.
The weird edge-lord things he does and acting like a 13 year old on Twitter. He's extremely petty.
Downplayed Covid. Then said he was making ventilators and never actually did.
Seems to try and manipulate the stock market by saying things on Twitter.
Has underpaid workers. Tried to ruin the life of a Tesla whistleblower. Workers have complained of unsafe conditions.
Neuralink thing has been accused of animal cruelty.
That's just off the top of my head.
And he got to bang Grimes, the cnut.
I have to completely disagree that the knowledge required is similar/same. I have a PhD in Machine Learning but would be totally useless in doing cloud computing for example.
I wouldn’t say that those things are as diverse as let’s say cars and rockets but my point was precisely that. They didn’t have technological contributions expect on the first product they made (Google search engine and Musk’s first company). From that point on, they were managers and despite producing different things, in all of them they were managing, not building those products themselves.
You might hate him but not change history. He is as self-made billionaire as someone can be, and his wealth has nothing to do with his father being rich, considering that he even self-funded his studies.
So not, then.
We all have the same 24 hours
That's why I never apologise when bumping into people. It's my 24 hours as well.
I meant Musk wanted to keep the actual name X.com rather than changing it to PayPal. I'm sure I heard it somewhere.
Not getting into a debate on Elon but on the tax point the rich are very efficient by being paid in things like stock whilst companies generate income across the globe so the system is broke and it isn't easy to fix unrealised gains (as you probably know).
Also this tax year gone, Elon said he paid approx 11 billion in tax (because of the way he was exercising an option on Tesla stock).
The rest are fair.
I personally like his contribution to making sustainable energy commercially viable sooner (solar, batteries, sat internet, cars, and battery tech) compared to other governments and people who could've done more.
They cant deny the offer. It'll destroy Twitter. Musk has boxed them in.
Reckon the first thing he's going to do is unban Trump
Would fit in with what he's been saying about free speech... suspect he will let it be a free for all pile on... unless you point out a submarine won't fit through a tunnel then you will be called a peado and banned
Well I think he's a big petulant man-child egomaniac sociopathic cuntbag genius
This is probably controversial but for me he's the greatest polymath of our time, maybe even the biggest since da Vinci, I'm serious.
If Leonardo da Vinci was around today you’d still have the same people saying he was only able to do what he did because of rich patronage or government subsidy.
But you'd also have his cult worshiping the time he took a massive dump, looked in the pan, and in his drug addled mind thought it would solve mass transportation. Or save kids trapped in a cave.
We'd have people calling Sforza a polymath because he hired people like da Vinci.
The Saudis to the rescue.
The absolute state of the worldAnd we'd have people saying da Vinci's wealth is undeserved...or that he's stealing it from society.