I don't think it's fluff, it describes the man (in fairly unflattering light imo).

Of course there is nothing applicable to you, you are (likely) not an extreme person like Musk. I don't think the point of the article is to teach you "How you too can be successful, just like Musk", but to shed a light on extreme personality from someone who knew him well.

edit: although Vox's slug is how-to-be-successful, I still don't read that piece as "you too can be successful if you imitate what Elon does"

> Extreme success is not like other kinds of success; what has worked for someone else probably won't work for you.

And she's already said as much:

>Extremely successful people are unlikely to be reading stuff like this.

>Surfing the 'net is a deadly time suck

He's pretty prolific on twitter: https://twitter.com/elonmusk

Producers are not necessarily consumers.

One of the most narcissistic people I know writes quite prolifically, but can't be bothered to read more than a paragraph or so of somebody else's writing.