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Sir Guacamolaf
The good kind of fat
Here is how it went down ..
Wednesday:
EM: Today is good day to write the 8.0 blogpost, and y'know I love Tesla fans, so I'll tweet it too.
World: Goes wild
EM: Okay done and squared away, lets send this to lawyers to publish and review.
Lawyers: We need to show we are doing something, so lets suggest changes.
EM: Crap, didn't have time to review that, esp. with that launch coming up. I'll do it tomorrow.
EM sleeps.
Thursday:
EM: Another good day, lets take care of that 8.0 stuff.
62million $ rocket ship with Zuck's $200m spyware goes BOOM!
EM: I'm sure this happens to everyone, need to refocus.
EM (later in the day): Tweets - guys I haven't forgotten about the blogpost.
.. meanwhile here on TMC .. :-/ .. c'mon guys seriously, don't tell me your 62million $ rocket ship with your billionaire buddy's $200m spyware hasn't ever gone BOOM on you for no apparent reason!
Wednesday:
EM: Today is good day to write the 8.0 blogpost, and y'know I love Tesla fans, so I'll tweet it too.
World: Goes wild
EM: Okay done and squared away, lets send this to lawyers to publish and review.
Lawyers: We need to show we are doing something, so lets suggest changes.
EM: Crap, didn't have time to review that, esp. with that launch coming up. I'll do it tomorrow.
EM sleeps.
Thursday:
EM: Another good day, lets take care of that 8.0 stuff.
62million $ rocket ship with Zuck's $200m spyware goes BOOM!
EM: I'm sure this happens to everyone, need to refocus.
EM (later in the day): Tweets - guys I haven't forgotten about the blogpost.
.. meanwhile here on TMC .. :-/ .. c'mon guys seriously, don't tell me your 62million $ rocket ship with your billionaire buddy's $200m spyware hasn't ever gone BOOM on you for no apparent reason!
No, death was almost instantaneous. No suffering.
Yes and no. Yes, major decisions at one company should not be affected by another. But this is a relatively minor PR thing. In the greater scheme of things how important is an pre-emptive announcement about version 8.0 of a vehicle operating system. It's minor.
I don't know of course, but I very much expect that Elon, despite the PR, delegates a lot of responsibility for major items to his loyalists. You simply cannot run businesses that size otherwise. I suspect that the "Elon makes every decision" is based more in mythology than present reality.
And in either case, he's been doing quite a fine job in my estimation.
ElectricTundra
P85D AP1
Not even an issue unless you know someone who you know will execute at least as well on the vision and leadership bit. Even though he meddles about in a lot of day to day stuff and has a positive impact there, his critical contribution is over the long term. There are many others to handle the short term.
Chopr147
Active Member
this is the new anti-marketing at work. Tesla doesn't advertise - why should they when so many of us will hang on every word Musk tweets, and get emotionally involved enough to post about it? Approach does not work without controversial tweets. Ask Trump. Nobody tunes in for the uneventful.
RogerHScott
Active Member
Ouch! I hate that comparison even though I think you're mostly correct. The difference may be that few of us imagine ourselves to be under-priveleged or somehow oppressed. Few, not all: I feel oppressed because my P85DL is now obsolescent and I want a P100DL with Bioweapon Defense Mode.
You guys have it all backwards.
Clearly the Falcon 9 rocket exploded because Elon was writing the 8.0 software blog and not supervising the fueling operations. I hear his desk is at the end of the NOX line.
Let's give the guy a break. He has had a bad week.
Clearly the Falcon 9 rocket exploded because Elon was writing the 8.0 software blog and not supervising the fueling operations. I hear his desk is at the end of the NOX line.
Let's give the guy a break. He has had a bad week.
33% of Elon is equal to at least 200% of any other CEO.
Exactly.
That is my understanding as well. As important as Tesla Motors is to Elon, his real passion is establishing a permanent sustainable human colony on Mars.
I never stated that the V8 blog post delay was entirely due to the SpaceX rocket explosion (please quote someone in this thread who made that claim). Elon's blog post was about 17 hours late and then the explosion occurred. 17 hours late for a blog post is nothing unusual for him, and is not the tragedy that some people seem to think it is. The SpaceX accident has no pushed the release date for the blog post out several days, which is understandable.
Apricot
The waiting... the waiting...
I do imagine it happened more or less like this.
I'll also add that right after the explosion, probably all Musk lawyers were pulled off Review Elon Blog duty to deal with billion dollar international liability lawsuit preparation.
f-stop
Active Member
Also - explaining the situation to Zuck clearly must be taking time away from Elon finishing that blog post...
A totally real conversation between Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg about a rocket
RogerHScott
Active Member
"We've got a motto at SpaceX, too. Ours is: sit still (on the launch pad) and (really) break things"
HookBill
Member
My reference to your comment was made as a tie to a more general string of reactions and not to single you out. Did not mean to pick on you.
Bladerunner
Member
chwall P90DL
Member
As of 1AM PDT on Friday, Elon noted that he would "get back to Autopilot update blog tomorrow"
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