Recently there was a post on hn by someone who allegedly worked for Tesla before Elon musk was mega famous and this person makes two points:

1- a huge amount of Tesla culture was knowing how to manage Elon musk's stupid ideas and impulses.

2- Twitter doesn't have this culture so we're about to see what happens when Elon musk is surrounded by people who just take him at face value.

My thought at the time was: hold on, isn't that precisely how the entire planet (minus Tesla, apparently) sees him? Everyone seems to take him at face value and by know we've seen the pattern of how that pans out.

Do you have a link?

I remember a similar story as an image in a tweet/toot, but from SpaceX, and I've been wondering if it's true. It would certainly explain a couple of things.

The private entrepreneurship must be rentable, government projects don't. That's why it's harder for private companies to develop large projects without lots of government money.

Quite a reach... typing a comment about Elon Musk, in a totally unrelated thread. I hope you feel very good about your contribution to this site.

Genius in a sense making car can only drive 100 miles in the snow? Or argue with and fire core engineers on RPC batching?

USA just needs less drugs and let people do their work and will be aok, we do not a boring machine.