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Category Archives: Elon Musk
The Empty Inventory: Elon Musk Through Stephen P. Turner on Tacit Knowledge
When I hear Elon Musk, I hear a charlatan. When I look at Elon Musk without emotion, I see a complicated trillionaire who knows how to work the system (I read the Walter Isaacson biography and it struck me as … Continue reading
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The Elon Musk Set
Picture the room first. Elon Musk (b. 1971) sits at the center, and everyone else orients toward him whether they like him or not. The oldest layer comes from PayPal: Peter Thiel (b. 1967), David Sacks (b. 1972), Max Levchin … Continue reading
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How Does Elon Musk Do It?
Many people I know want to dismiss Elon Musk as a fraud. A whole industry of pundits obliges them, because there is an ocean of people hungry for that narrative. I don’t understand the intensity of the hatred. Like Donald … Continue reading
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FT: Funding the Muskverse will require ever more audacious moves
ChatGPT says: This is not mainly a story about engineering, finance, or even vision. It is about alliance power and how Musk operates outside, above, and against normal elite coordination rules. 1. Musk is not a CEO. He is an … Continue reading
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The Musk Trump Feud Cools
Grok says: The feud between Elon Musk and Donald Trump, which erupted publicly over disagreements on Trump’s tax and spending bill, shows signs of cooling as of June 6, 2025. Musk signaled a willingness to de-escalate by responding positively to … Continue reading
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‘Elon Musk’s Family Values’
Aaron Renn writes: “The elite media like the Journal are basically running an attack campaign against Elon Musk. They’ll publish almost any negative piece they can come up with. Also, this piece reads like it was created in collaboration with … Continue reading
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How Much Money Has DOGE Saved Us?
I’ve learned to be skeptical of anything that Elon claims that makes him look good because he has a history of exaggeration. According to Elon Musk’s Grok: As of the latest updates, the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) has claimed … Continue reading
NYT: Musk’s Misinformation About Tech Visas
Farah Stockman writes for the New York Times: …for more than a decade, Americans working in the tech industry have been systematically laid off and replaced by cheaper H-1B visa holders… Prominent companies were jettisoning their locally hired I.T. departments … Continue reading
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Don’t Mess With Billionaires – Elon Musk Edition (12-31-24)
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