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What does Elon Musk actually do? What is he good at?

Elon Musk is, at his core, a genius-level organizer and arranger. That’s the foundation of wealth creation: rearranging things to make them more valuable.

When you write a book, you're not inventing words - you’re arranging them in a way that creates meaning and value. When you build a piece of furniture from a tree, you’ve taken raw wood, maybe worth $100, and turned it into something worth $1,000. It’s the same material, just reorganized into a more valuable form.

That’s what Elon Musk does - but on a massive scale. He takes materials, machines, buildings, and most importantly, people, and arranges them into systems that generate enormous value. SpaceX, Tesla, Neuralink; these are just extremely complex examples of high-level organization.

You might think, anyone can do that. But try organizing something as simple as your garage or basement - even that’s hard. It takes decision-making, trade-offs, planning, and execution, and then dealing with all of the mistakes you made.

Step it up to running a small business, something many of you have done or are doing now. Again, it’s all about arranging things into systems that satisfy customers and (hopefully) make money. Most small businesses fail within five years. It’s not easy being an arranger, and it only gets harder as you scale.

Now consider the scale that Elon works at. He has a ridiculous amount of shit going on. This MFer is rearranging entire global supply chains and driving a huge amount of technical innovation while doing it.

Organization is his real skill - and it’s the skill that made him the richest man in the world.
 
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Small business owners tend to spend much of their time running their business. Not playing video games, not tweeting thousands of times a day, not pretending to be president. "Musk" appears to be a brand (not dissimilar from how "Trump" is a brand plastered on the side of a building someone else manages). Elon Musk the person certainly is not "rearranging entire global supply chains and driving a huge amount of technical innovation," though people associated with the brand may well be.
 
Holy shit, I thought that Trump worshipping was something to behold, but this.......................... this is something else. 🤣
 
aociswundumho said:
Elon Musk is, at his core, a genius-level organizer and arranger. That’s the foundation of wealth creation: rearranging things to make them more valuable.

When you write a book, you're not inventing words - you’re arranging them in a way that creates meaning and value. When you build a piece of furniture from a tree, you’ve taken raw wood, maybe worth $100, and turned it into something worth $1,000. It’s the same material, just reorganized into a more valuable form.

That’s what Elon Musk does - but on a massive scale. He takes materials, machines, buildings, and most importantly, people, and arranges them into systems that generate enormous value. SpaceX, Tesla, Neuralink; these are just extremely complex examples of high-level organization.

You might think, anyone can do that. But try organizing something as simple as your garage or basement - even that’s hard. It takes decision-making, trade-offs, planning, and execution, and then dealing with all of the mistakes you made.

Step it up to running a small business, something many of you have done or are doing now. Again, it’s all about arranging things into systems that satisfy customers and (hopefully) make money. Most small businesses fail within five years. It’s not easy being an arranger, and it only gets harder as you scale.

Now consider the scale that Elon works at. He has a ridiculous amount of shit going on. This MFer is rearranging entire global supply chains and driving a huge amount of technical innovation while doing it.

Organization is his real skill - and it’s the skill that made him the richest man in the world.
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Like the vast majority of people who achieve the commanding heights of wealth in the past century, Elon Musk had a privileged, untroubled upbringing and a paid-for education at one of the top universities in the country where other incredibly wealthy people send their children to learn and network. In short, he was born lucky and his family paid for him to be in the right place at the right time.

I submit that you are simply trying to reverse engineer dumb luck and good fortune to have it attributed to individual genius.
 
Felis Leo said:
Like the vast majority of people who achieve the commanding heights of wealth in the past century, Elon Musk had a privileged, untroubled upbringing and a paid-for education at one of the top universities in the country where other incredibly wealthy people send their children to learn and network. In short, he was born lucky and his family paid for him to be in the right place at the right time.

I submit that you are simply trying to reverse engineer dumb luck and good fortune to have it attributed to individual genius.
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I will admit that he's exceptionally proficient at begging for govt handouts and subsidies which saved both SpaceX and Tesla from oblivion... and letting people like Derek Proudian and Peter Thiel make up for his incompetence.
 

What does Elon Musk actually do? What is he good at?​


6 formal relationships (wives/girlfiends) and 14 known children with four different women. 5 children via IVF.

Hardly what one would call 'MAGA conservative'. According to Musk biographer Walter Isaacson, most of his romances involve “psychological turmoil.”
 
aociswundumho said:
Elon Musk is, at his core, a genius-level organizer and arranger. That’s the foundation of wealth creation: rearranging things to make them more valuable.

When you write a book, you're not inventing words - you’re arranging them in a way that creates meaning and value. When you build a piece of furniture from a tree, you’ve taken raw wood, maybe worth $100, and turned it into something worth $1,000. It’s the same material, just reorganized into a more valuable form.

That’s what Elon Musk does - but on a massive scale. He takes materials, machines, buildings, and most importantly, people, and arranges them into systems that generate enormous value. SpaceX, Tesla, Neuralink; these are just extremely complex examples of high-level organization.

You might think, anyone can do that. But try organizing something as simple as your garage or basement - even that’s hard. It takes decision-making, trade-offs, planning, and execution, and then dealing with all of the mistakes you made.

Step it up to running a small business, something many of you have done or are doing now. Again, it’s all about arranging things into systems that satisfy customers and (hopefully) make money. Most small businesses fail within five years. It’s not easy being an arranger, and it only gets harder as you scale.

Now consider the scale that Elon works at. He has a ridiculous amount of shit going on. This MFer is rearranging entire global supply chains and driving a huge amount of technical innovation while doing it.

Organization is his real skill - and it’s the skill that made him the richest man in the world.
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This post was a hardcore fanboi wankfest.
 
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