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“What Happened to
the Future,” Thiel
Musk rejected that logic by throwing $100 million into SpaceX, $70 million into Tesla, and $10 million into SolarCity.
Where Mark Zuckerberg wants to help you share baby photos, Musk wants to … well … save the human race from self-imposed or accidental annihilation.
It seemed like one should try to make the world a better place because the inverse makes no sense.”
The teenage Musk then arrived at his ultralogical mission statement. “The only thing that makes sense to do is strive for greater collective enlightenment,” he said.
“You don’t get to where Elon is now by always being a nice guy, and he was just so driven and sure of himself.”
The first obvious assumption would be that other people will behave like you. But that’s not true. Even if they would like to behave like you, they don’t necessarily have all the assumptions or information that you have in your mind. So, if I know a certain set of things, and I talk to a replica of myself but only communicate half the information, you can’t expect that the replica would come to the same conclusion. You have to put yourself in a position where you say, ‘Well, how would this sound to them, knowing what they know?’”
‘When you interview make sure you can talk concretely about what you do rather than use buzzwords.’
“It’s like anything else where you find out that the last ten percent is where all the integration happens and things don’t play together,” Mueller said.
