I work as an urban planner. His admittance to the Dunning-Kruger effect to me was him starting the Boring company. Which basically is an investment in the Dunning Kruger effect.
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I don’t know. We’ve gotten pretty good at ignoring experts. I remember that one article where an experienced tunneling engineer took down the alleged innovation of the Boring Company as them being decades behind the industry standard. Didn’t change anything.
What has finally begun to scratch Elon’s gilding is his unignorable public failure of running something many people, and especially journalists, use daily and which was acquired in the most high profile manner possible in the first place.
ETA: found the original article. Unfortunately only in a version with Elon-fawning commentary by Teslarati. That part hasn’t aged well
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If your parents have enough Krugerrands you can Dunning Kruger your way all the way to the top and still believe yourself to be an Any Rand hero.
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Martin Herrenknect’s comments, on the other hand, have aged very well.
For my industry, I see Musk above all as a skillful whisker. He claims that he can build tunnels faster and cheaper than others and is causing a stir.
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So his next project should be a new crypto coin, the Dunning-Kugerrand?
NB and I love the ambiguity of the title for this. “Twitter’s last few month…” Because “last” here can mean either “most recent” or “final.” Works either way.
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“Move fast and break things,” is a terrible methodology to have as your central idea. Sometimes, (usually when technology changes) if you have a come up with a better way of doing things, getting rid of the instrastructure and rules that support the old way is a necessary and good thing. But having a better way of doing things comes FIRST. You can’t just tear down the old, ignore all the hard won knowledge of the problem and its solutions, and ASSUME that a better way will magically be found just because it would be convenient for you and your investors if it happened.
Edited to add: Musk and other “disrupters” would have you believe, (To quote poet Randall Jarrell)
“You can’t break eggs without making an omlette
That’s what they tell the eggs.”
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There’s an implied central tenet, that some people (say, Musk, or many, if not all, of the “disruptors”) never seem to understand or follow through on. When you move and and break things, it’s only incrementally and you’re supposed to be able to move fast BACK to unbreak it.
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The toxic boss I refer to as “el turkey” was probably a ‘move fast, break things’ person, but more of a ‘fire, ready, aim’ person for management style.
New backup system that completely replaces the old one? sure, but let’s stop using the old one before we’ve even ordered the new one. Oh wait, we can’t buy the new one because there’s no capital project money for it, and getting it approved takes two weeks at a minimum, which means we can’t order this thing on the last calendar day of the year (which was when this whole thing took place, btw) in order to meet the sale rep’s quota. Did you turn the old system off yet? why not? something something regulatory compliance rules? ignore those, I’ll be sure to deflect ALL the blame directly on you when that mountain of fecal matter hits the air movement device because the regulatory agency shuts the entire company down for non-compliance. WHY HAVENT YOU TURNED THE OLD ONE OFF YET? Oh, the CIO told you personally to ignore me, and he wants to see me in his office. :small voice: oh.
Yeah, I had to have that conversation with the CIO a few times in the 20 months that [censored- with a goat? REALLY?] was my boss.
(sorry, this turned into a rant. Carry on, folks!)
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