I almost didn't read this article because the title made me go "urgh", but hey it's a slow news day so *clicky*Great article & enjoyable blog site as well, so Thank You x 2!
Quote from: Tuts36 on 05/18/2015 06:37 pmI almost didn't read this article because the title made me go "urgh", but hey it's a slow news day so *clicky*Great article & enjoyable blog site as well, so Thank You x 2!'sactly, on both counts.
Now I'm waiting for the next part with bated breath (and watching my free time vanish in a flood of older articles to read).
Really nice article, highly inspiring.I bet if you're highly cynical or opposed to Musk's position you could write that whole article off as astroturfing/amazing peopleism.I'm not, though...
I have an acquaintance through email who's highly anti-Musk and used that article to explain why no "competent" engineer (that he knows) believes Musk or SpaceX will survive for much longer and how Falcon flights are going to be a disaster real soon now.
Quote from: Jamsta on 05/19/2015 04:43 pmReally nice article, highly inspiring.I bet if you're highly cynical or opposed to Musk's position you could write that whole article off as astroturfing/amazing peopleism.I'm not, though... [edited to avoid multiple split quotes]1. I really don't understand how he can't see that there are some actual changes and differences between the way he's used to it being done and the way SpaceX does it.2. gave an in-house engineer $5,000 and told him to make it work. ... The general justification is that because it hasn't flown hundreds of flights it's simply not "reliable" enough.3. "Congress is investigating him"4. "Musk-amazing peopleism"
3. Finally Congress investigates something worthwhile! The Day they Announce (Hurrah!) that they've figured out how to clone Elon and thereby dial Our Nation's capitalistic Effort up to 11 shall be a Day to Remember indeed. /s
Muskist? Muskovite?
So far he has mainly pushed down wages, offering "hope" and "inspiration" instead but he has yet to expand the market.
Quote from: Oli on 05/20/2015 12:44 amSo far he has mainly pushed down wages, offering "hope" and "inspiration" instead but he has yet to expand the market.Aside from creating 5000 jobs...
These articles that are Elon centric make me worried for the companies he helms in the event of the unthinkable. The comparisons to John D Rockefeller, Henry Ford, and Thomas Edison are warranted and easily made, but I'd like to add a fourth name to the list - Walt Disney; he's a man who knew his business, and was instrumental in making things happen, and was the final word in his areas of expertise (a list of which seemed to be endless). Elon, like Walt, are men who knew what they wanted. When Walt Disney died, some of the divisions he was most focused on spent the next twenty years asking for his ghost. I'd hate to see SpaceX or Tesla face the same situation.
Disney is a very strange example to choose to make that particular point. Disney might have had problems in certain areas for a while, but enough of the magic remained that today Disney dominates its original markets and has successfully expanded far beyond them. I'd be thrilled to see SpaceX and/or Tesla as successful in 60 years as Disney is today.