The Wozniak era of Apple was pretty much all upside. Whatever less than nice things to say at Apple almost certainly came about more than a decade after he had left them.
jj4211
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Of course, this argument is a pretty piss poor one when the example held up is Musk...
His first jolt was selling a website to a relatively clueless Compaq that did nothing with it except throw money at Elon. No idea if Elon's site was any good or not, but it didn't matter because the reality is that it folded without an enduring impact as part of the dot-com collapse. He used his winnings to try to make X.com the first time, and was a comparative failure next to Paypal, which, somehow, agreed to merge and put him in charge and he almost tanked it. Then ebay bought it out and Musk got maddening amount of money for doing nothing but screw it up.
Tesla is probably the first example of him not actively screwing it up, though his drama around "I wanna call myself a founder" was dumb. That said, any investor could have done it, so his 'value' was his lottery-like wins leading to that point.
There are others that are arguable, though recently had it happen where someone kept giving out names of impressive and seemingly valuable 'billionaires', and we kept checking and every last one were 'only' millionaires. So it seems like 'billionaire' remains a stupidly over the top concept that isn't particularly redeemable, with the defensibly decent folks staying under a billion through not being super greedy and/or philanthropy.
Neuralink I suppose is an example where his appetite for crazy risk might pay off or be terrible.
FSD implies no one else is trying for self driving, and that's no shortage there for that ambition.
Humanoid robots at scale, they haven't displayed a capability to suggest they have any better shot than others, and there's plenty of less loud companies trying. None are particularly close, so Elon stands relatively alone in proclaiming success without the proof.
I don't know that his crazy appetite for risk is on display with SpaceX. I would argue most of their real successes were relatively lower risk, and generally when the companies indulge musk at his craziest are like the other comment says, comparative failures.
Daniel Jackson
He may die a fair bit, but he won't stay dead for long.
The plague of work chats now:
Here's what ChatGPT/copilot had to say:
People can ask for themselves, you answering that way adds no value. Just say you don't know.
In group chats, keep your mouth shut and let people that actually know answer. Don't drown out the actual expert answers.
And holy hell the ones that will die on the hill that they are right because chatgpt agreed with them even when they are totally wrong...
Though the chance someone other than you dies from you taking a shit is pretty far fetched, and I'm not liking having to try to conceive of how that happens.
But a lot of activities are this way. Getting on a ladder in public could kill someone, just breathing around other people could kill someone, etc etc.
But what about monster HDMI cables?
Well, driving to work is basically that. Non zero chance someone dies.
Also, a bunch of shit is about ready to burst out because they somehow decided to use wallpaper to hold a bunch of stuff to the wall instead of putting it in a closet. But it looked fine in the moment, so decided it was good enough.
So being drunk affects how you use light/dark mode?
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A celebrity graduation speaker that actually has something thoughtful to say that is realistic, relevant, and inspirational to the graduates? That's crazy, everyone knows celebrity graduation speakers are supposed to be self absorbed and prattling on about the stuff that excites them without connecting to the graduates, except maybe to be dismissive of the graduates and look down on them.