{"version": "1.0", "type": "rich", "title": "Some Musk discourse crossed my dash, and I always think the thing about Musk is that he (like Steve Jobs before him) leans into...", "author_name": "kontextmaschine", "author_url": "https://kontextmaschine.com", "provider_name": "kontextmaschine", "provider_url": "https://kontextmaschine.com", "url": "https://kontextmaschine.com/post/176895854103/", "html": "

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furioustimemachinebarbarian:

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furioustimemachinebarbarian:

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Some Musk discourse crossed my dash, and I always think the thing about Musk is that he (like Steve Jobs before him) leans into the lone genius mythology that we\u2019ve built up around science and technology.\u00a0 Movies, TV, fictional science/tech portrayals have created a Tony Stark/Q from James Bond/Doc Brown from Back to the Future shaped hole in people\u2019s world and Musk is willing to step in to it so he can raise money.\u00a0\u00a0

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Which isn\u2019t all bad, Telsa makes some cool cars, Space X has some cool rockets.\u00a0 But there is an aspect of his persona that feels to me like it crosses the line into grift territory a bit too often.\u00a0\u00a0

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Oh, also, I think Tesla\u2019s autopilot tech is a bit unethical and reckless.\u00a0\u00a0

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no single individual ever achieves much of consequence.

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You know what, I see this sentiment more and more and no, I\u2019m gonna push back in favor of Great Man significance. I remember Apple under Steve Jobs, and then under Gil Amelio, and then again under Jobs, and now Tim Cook, with the chief role changing hands while the rest of the organization stood pat (or rather drifted at the same rate as within administrations)

And the Jobs eras really were periods of visionary \u201cget out in front of the future\u201d moves and exceedingly high standards that accounts convincingly arrribute to Steve, and the others really have been uninspired corporate conventional wisdom and running down the stock of goodwill and reputation Jobs built up

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