Screencap of Tweet by Paul Graham, @paulg, on Feb 16, 2022. Text reads: Someone who knows Elon Musk well explained why he's so successful. It's simply that he's an engineering genius. I imagined it was because he was a good manager. Cars and rockets seemed so different that I couldn't imagine someone being an expert in both. But apparently he is.

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Charlie Stross (cstross@wandering.shop)'s status on Sunday, 02-Apr-2023 08:59:02 UTC Charlie Stross

A year later we can see that the truth is that over decades his car company and rocket company both evolved ways of keeping Dilbert Stark from doing much damage—ruthlessly managing him to keep him out of the way of the core business. But his social media acquisition was so abrupt there was no time for Twitter to develop internal defences against a screeching, shit-slinging macaque.

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