Rebecca BrückmannNov 10, 2022
Submitting this as evidence for the wonderful ways in which we as a society have chosen to label men like him "geniuses" while 10% of the same behavior in women would be clearly erratic, emotional, and incompetent. 🙃
https://www.sfgate.com/tech/article/elon-musk-twitter-town-hall-17572400.php
Elon Musk has no idea what he’s doing with Twitter

"Musk had the energy and presence of a college freshman flubbing it through a class...

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Show threadAdam Ierymenko
@historleans He clearly knows nothing about running a social media site. IMHO he was a genius but is losing his mind. Gwynne Shotwell, a woman, is running SpaceX day to day with far less erratic emotional drama.
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Show threadAshtonNov 16, 2022
@adamierymenko @historleans I genuinely see no evidence of him being a genius. Maybe a few good insights here and there (SpaceX monopolized on a niche opened by NASA, Tesla survived because of government policy), but genius? Nah, you gotta do something truly out of the box to get that label.
Show threadAdam IerymenkoNov 17, 2022
@ashton_k @historleans It's relative of course. Did he develop quantum mechanics or relativity? No. But there are not many businesspeople who could have this much success even with support, and he is at least a good enough engineer in some areas to know what's possible and void dumb mistakes. That being said many people are behind all those successes. Musk is to some extent a front man.