Is Musk bipolar?
Related, he talked about being diagnosed with Asperger's before
https://www.axios.com/2022/04/15/elon-musk-aspergers-syndrom...
I worked for Elon Musk in the early days of SpaceX
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Re: I worked for Elon Musk in the early days of SpaceX
#22This article reads like an abused partner defending their abuser. This kind of double-sidedness is extremely common in abusive relationships, in large part because it's a really effective method of exerting control over someone while encouraging them to blame themselves for being abused. > If there are employees not aligned with that vision, he will chew them out and he will do it in a vicious way, which is his right…
> This article reads like an abused partner defending their abuser.
You should read a few stories about working for Steve Jobs (or head to YouTube and watch interviews). This article is extremely mild, in comparison.
Re: I worked for Elon Musk in the early days of SpaceX
#23Earlier quoted context omitted.
We're all adults, don't like his style, don't work for him. It's that simple. Obviously enough people don't think his style is harsh or vicious, as described in the article, otherwise his numerous companies wouldn't have a line out the door of prospective employees. My take on the article was Musk drives you like a good highschool sports coach. Demanding, hard, unforgiving... and you either live up to the high expect…
Kinda agreeing, but I have to say sometimes there's a thin line between sport coach and bad leader. You gotta ensure tact and fairness.
I think given Elon's obvious numerous successes, despite this latest frenzy of "Musk Bad", he's objectively a great leader.
You do not get to where he is by being a bad leader. His entire job is leading, despite what people like to think (ie. that he's actually designing rockets or whatever...)
Re: I worked for Elon Musk in the early days of SpaceX
#24Earlier quoted context omitted.
No one has a right to chew you out in a vicious way. As owner he has a right to fire you, but if I were a Twitter employee and he raised his voice to me, I'd be right in face at twice the volume. I'd have to get paid a lot more than a "competitive" salary to be viciously chewed out.
The guy has money and acolytes in high places. Quit if you want, but dont make an enemy of someone who can blacklist you. Just leave. Dont make a scene.
That just feels like a cheap way to live. Maybe it's prudent, but I feel like I couldn't live with myself.
Re: I worked for Elon Musk in the early days of SpaceX
#25Is Musk bipolar?
No, but he is impulsive, careless, fraudulent and, when it comes to software, incompetent.
Re: I worked for Elon Musk in the early days of SpaceX
#26This article reads like an abused partner defending their abuser. This kind of double-sidedness is extremely common in abusive relationships, in large part because it's a really effective method of exerting control over someone while encouraging them to blame themselves for being abused. > If there are employees not aligned with that vision, he will chew them out and he will do it in a vicious way, which is his right…
We're all adults, don't like his style, don't work for him. It's that simple. Obviously enough people don't think his style is harsh or vicious, as described in the article, otherwise his numerous companies wouldn't have a line out the door of prospective employees. My take on the article was Musk drives you like a good highschool sports coach. Demanding, hard, unforgiving... and you either live up to the high expect…
Nobody at Twitter asked to work for him. They woke up one day and found that he was their CEO, after months of legal games where he demonstrated extreme reluctance to honor his deal.
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#27Re: I worked for Elon Musk in the early days of SpaceX
#28This article reads like an abused partner defending their abuser. This kind of double-sidedness is extremely common in abusive relationships, in large part because it's a really effective method of exerting control over someone while encouraging them to blame themselves for being abused. > If there are employees not aligned with that vision, he will chew them out and he will do it in a vicious way, which is his right…
We're all adults, don't like his style, don't work for him. It's that simple. Obviously enough people don't think his style is harsh or vicious, as described in the article, otherwise his numerous companies wouldn't have a line out the door of prospective employees. My take on the article was Musk drives you like a good highschool sports coach. Demanding, hard, unforgiving... and you either live up to the high expect…
> Musk drives you like a good highschool sports coach
Which might be good to get results from traumatized teenagers for a few years but probably not adults.
Also, child or adult, you shouldn’t have a tyrant able to abuse you at will until you quit.
Re: I worked for Elon Musk in the early days of SpaceX
#29The vision of space occupation has always come across to me as really stupid. From many scientific points of view it is infeasible, and many philosophical perspectives on top of that. I get the idea of making your vision come true and treating every obstacle as a technicality, but not all problems work that way. Especially not ones that go really far against biology.
Re: I worked for Elon Musk in the early days of SpaceX
#30Is Musk bipolar?
No, just a jackass. Edit: Yes, firing 3000 people with lives and families because you paid an obscene amount of money for a company that you didn’t actually want makes you a jackass.
> Yes, firing 3000 people with lives and families
Maybe we need to be more mature.
Twitter was very clearly bloated. Laying off the bloat is pretty much status quo for major acquisitions. There is nothing unusual here.
Are any of the other major tech companies laying off huge percentages of their workforce also "jackasses"???