We don't need the lazy stereotype of middle-aged white men or MIT graduates to understand Elon Musk. Kanye West is essentially the black version of Elon Musk. Always been an overconfident hack, but many people insisted he was a genius and happily wore his ugly sneakers. Then when your genius starts going full Hitler, you tell yourself that he wasn't always bat shit insane. I don't see the difference. America's culture is rewarding this kind of behavior, and it has little to do with race or education.
I never gave Schmusk a lot of thought beyond he seemed to do some cool stuff with cars and whatnot. My 180 came when he wanted to build a submersible to save those boys caught in that cave in Thailand and when told there wasn’t time, called one of men helping to rescue the group a pedophile. What a fucking man-baby.
Geoff hope you see this. Was reading that they want to update the Social Security computers from the old COLBOL code to a new system. The people at Social Security said it would take 5 years and of course the dogebags say no. Your thoughts please.
I am worried about the security of Social Security.
I am fucking terrified. Those code kiddies really have no fucking idea what they are doing, and Musk is certainly exfiltrating petabytes of data to feed his Temu AI knockoff
Look, mainframes from the 60's and 70's were miracles of the era, and armies of programmers have spent man-centuries writing, maintaining and keeping that creaking system running.
Sure, modernization is a good goal, but as a product manager, I know you need to first understand all the subsystems, the inputs, the outputs, and the magic that happens between those two. I am sure they have pretty solid documentation of the current system, but I bet it runs to 40k pages or so, printed, so to read it, to process it, to understand it, and to then write a cogent set of requirements.
All before you write the first line of code.
And if you are smart, you work subsystem by subsystem, validating performance before swapping it in, and in that way, you keep the leviathan working. That is unless you want to build it separate and then after adequate testing switch over.
But I am 100% certain that is not what they are planning. I bet they are gonna buy a bunch of servers, build a data canter, run VMCloud, and bodge shit together, whilst tearing down the old system.
The arrogance of these little fuckers is off the charts.
This is going to go bad. Very very bad.
And I suspect that they will fuck it up so monumentally, that they just bring in Booz-Allen Hamilton, or some other large contractor to outsource the whole thing, in conjunction with JP Morgan Stanley to administer the distribution of funds.
In short, we are fucked. I might be forced to retire to the third world (Alabama or Arkansas).
I never paid attention to him until he became co-president. He’s as annoying to listen to as Trump is. It’s so patronizing and he seems to be trying to sound like one of those highly evolved super intelligent aliens on Star Trek.
Will Lockett’s piece was great. I love the MRS concept. I see a sliding scale where you get declining credit for your realization based on whether you’re on Twitter dealing with neo-Nazi trolls, hunkered down with molten SpaceX debris falling on you or currently being immolated in a flaming cyber truck.
Holy shit you need fail-safes and kill switches all around Musk.
He has taint brains because taint anything there between to function things of the body. Of course you could massage your to taint (perineum) to soften your stool but his is brain is already mush.
Learned early beware the braggart. I watched maybe 10 minutes of The Apprentice and thought this guy is full of it. Who would watch this?
Never had opinion of Musk til about 2016 reading something about his recovery rockets and him getting credit. I know NASA collaborated with Space x but no ink for them.
Same. I’ve been hearing the stories since 2005 because my then-boyfriend was buddies with Marc Tarpenning, but even without that early introduction, mHusk took it to the next level once he started engaging with the manosphere and becoming a professional twitter troll.
I’ve always felt that way about him - and most of the other SV founders. Having worked with some of them way back in the Web 1.0 > 2.0. era, it’s all about extraction ($ and data) for these guys - and they’re all and have always been, guys. How people fell for any of them I will never understand. Elon’s been a fraud from day one.
Indeed. All these guys were the awkward dorks who couldn't "get the girl" (or the girls they felt they deserved - eww) in high school, and that initial warping of their egos primed them to become Lex Luther bad guys.
OMG. I worked for Veritas software for a time and so did my (at the time, future) husband. We went out to Mountain View for 3 weeks of training together and to say interacting with a lot of them could be awkward at times is an understatement. They don’t understand women nor the men who can actually “get” them, I think. It’s like we are a whole different species.
I was a shy dork in high school. But I also worked at restaurants, and you know what, proximity to members of the opposite sex helped my social skills tremendously.
These fucking guys, they were incels before incels were a thing, and they carried that resentment to them through their entire lives, and now that they have mega bux, they are little more than sex pests.
Vermin all the way. It is also the narrative arc of perpetual victimhood. It is NEVER their fault.
Musk is a cyborg. Let’s disconnect his power source
Thoughts on Elon’s high contempt ways of engaging: https://defusingamericananger.substack.com/p/the-polarization-of-elon-musk-and
We don't need the lazy stereotype of middle-aged white men or MIT graduates to understand Elon Musk. Kanye West is essentially the black version of Elon Musk. Always been an overconfident hack, but many people insisted he was a genius and happily wore his ugly sneakers. Then when your genius starts going full Hitler, you tell yourself that he wasn't always bat shit insane. I don't see the difference. America's culture is rewarding this kind of behavior, and it has little to do with race or education.
And all of this is exactly why the tangerine turd and Muskrat get along so well. They are cut from the same cloth and it’s all smoke and mirrors.
I never gave Schmusk a lot of thought beyond he seemed to do some cool stuff with cars and whatnot. My 180 came when he wanted to build a submersible to save those boys caught in that cave in Thailand and when told there wasn’t time, called one of men helping to rescue the group a pedophile. What a fucking man-baby.
Oh yeah, that is the MIT man syndrome out in the open.
He also brags about having a degree in physics. But he never completed the program. Like everything, he's a fraud cross the board
Geoff hope you see this. Was reading that they want to update the Social Security computers from the old COLBOL code to a new system. The people at Social Security said it would take 5 years and of course the dogebags say no. Your thoughts please.
I am worried about the security of Social Security.
I am fucking terrified. Those code kiddies really have no fucking idea what they are doing, and Musk is certainly exfiltrating petabytes of data to feed his Temu AI knockoff
Look, mainframes from the 60's and 70's were miracles of the era, and armies of programmers have spent man-centuries writing, maintaining and keeping that creaking system running.
Sure, modernization is a good goal, but as a product manager, I know you need to first understand all the subsystems, the inputs, the outputs, and the magic that happens between those two. I am sure they have pretty solid documentation of the current system, but I bet it runs to 40k pages or so, printed, so to read it, to process it, to understand it, and to then write a cogent set of requirements.
All before you write the first line of code.
And if you are smart, you work subsystem by subsystem, validating performance before swapping it in, and in that way, you keep the leviathan working. That is unless you want to build it separate and then after adequate testing switch over.
But I am 100% certain that is not what they are planning. I bet they are gonna buy a bunch of servers, build a data canter, run VMCloud, and bodge shit together, whilst tearing down the old system.
The arrogance of these little fuckers is off the charts.
This is going to go bad. Very very bad.
And I suspect that they will fuck it up so monumentally, that they just bring in Booz-Allen Hamilton, or some other large contractor to outsource the whole thing, in conjunction with JP Morgan Stanley to administer the distribution of funds.
In short, we are fucked. I might be forced to retire to the third world (Alabama or Arkansas).
Thank you and hope for the best and expect the worse. Also hope you don’t play Double A ball.
I never paid attention to him until he became co-president. He’s as annoying to listen to as Trump is. It’s so patronizing and he seems to be trying to sound like one of those highly evolved super intelligent aliens on Star Trek.
Will Lockett’s piece was great. I love the MRS concept. I see a sliding scale where you get declining credit for your realization based on whether you’re on Twitter dealing with neo-Nazi trolls, hunkered down with molten SpaceX debris falling on you or currently being immolated in a flaming cyber truck.
Holy shit you need fail-safes and kill switches all around Musk.
He has taint brains because taint anything there between to function things of the body. Of course you could massage your to taint (perineum) to soften your stool but his is brain is already mush.
Learned early beware the braggart. I watched maybe 10 minutes of The Apprentice and thought this guy is full of it. Who would watch this?
Never had opinion of Musk til about 2016 reading something about his recovery rockets and him getting credit. I know NASA collaborated with Space x but no ink for them.
We don’t have to worry about Trump or Musk ever coming out with a working bullshit detector.
Lol.
NEVER liked this guy. As a woman, experienced many of these childish, arrogant men and I detest them to my core!
Same. I’ve been hearing the stories since 2005 because my then-boyfriend was buddies with Marc Tarpenning, but even without that early introduction, mHusk took it to the next level once he started engaging with the manosphere and becoming a professional twitter troll.
I’ve always felt that way about him - and most of the other SV founders. Having worked with some of them way back in the Web 1.0 > 2.0. era, it’s all about extraction ($ and data) for these guys - and they’re all and have always been, guys. How people fell for any of them I will never understand. Elon’s been a fraud from day one.
Good luck, America.
Indeed. All these guys were the awkward dorks who couldn't "get the girl" (or the girls they felt they deserved - eww) in high school, and that initial warping of their egos primed them to become Lex Luther bad guys.
OMG. I worked for Veritas software for a time and so did my (at the time, future) husband. We went out to Mountain View for 3 weeks of training together and to say interacting with a lot of them could be awkward at times is an understatement. They don’t understand women nor the men who can actually “get” them, I think. It’s like we are a whole different species.
I was a shy dork in high school. But I also worked at restaurants, and you know what, proximity to members of the opposite sex helped my social skills tremendously.
These fucking guys, they were incels before incels were a thing, and they carried that resentment to them through their entire lives, and now that they have mega bux, they are little more than sex pests.
Vermin all the way. It is also the narrative arc of perpetual victimhood. It is NEVER their fault.
So, where do really stand Musk? Good post!
Thanks!
I have an idea comparing the Cybertruck to the Starship that keeps going boom.