Re:SpaceX said to fire employees involved in letter rebuking...
by deltaonezero on Friday June 17, 2022 @10:35AM
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I guess a better way to put it, is he fails at putting on a facade. He is certainly trying, but he's so bad at it, that he fails.
A good analogy is a small child pretending to be an adult.
It is fascinating to me that you see Elon as not putting on a facade, rather than his public face constantly being a changing facade.
As far as I can tell, Elon has two modes: "engineering", which is where he's super awkward and, as far as I can tell, totally and completely honest, if optimistic on capabilities and timeframes, and "public", which is where he's totally erratic and populist.
His twitter persona is almost totally public. Nothing is serious, everything is flippant, and his opinions sway with the breeze, or on the basis of who he feels slighted him most recently.