Geopolitics

Early in my career, USAID was a client of mine. Took me all over the world. Met so many amazing humans across every imaginable culture, all working towards a better future. Its sad to see it dismantled like this. 

Strategically, it leaves a hole in American soft power and diplomacy abroad in areas we see fast increasing Chinese influence.

I trust Elon/DOGE will figure that out and reinstate in a cost effective manner, the most essential programs that help anchor U.S. leadership abroad.

Early in my career, USAID was a client of mine. Took me all over the world. Met so many amazing humans across every imaginable culture, all working towards a better future. Its sad to see it dismantled like this. 

Strategically, it leaves a hole in American soft power and diplomacy abroad in areas we see fast increasing Chinese influence.

I trust Elon/DOGE will figure that out and reinstate in a cost effective manner, the most essential programs that help anchor U.S. leadership abroad. 

https://www.cnn.com/2025/02/02/politics/usaid-officials-leave-musk-doge/index.html

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Genuinely curious. What about Elon’s career makes people think he’s a “cost effective” expert?

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he did build some pretty cost effective rockets.

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I know that current rockets are cheaper to launch than traditional rockets but unclear if getting there was “cheaper” vs they had a better idea and raised the funds to focus solely on that.

doesn't that amount to the same thing at the end of the day.

i'm going to start by disagreeing with the second paragraph. the consequences of failing at either spacex or tesla would definitely not have been zero pain. at least not for him seeing how much of his own money he poured into both ventures. 

as to your first point, i do agree that while he's good at approaching complex engineering problems, the jury is still out on whether that skill translates to other complex problem sets. twitter hasn't necessarily gotten better since he took over, that's not an engineering problem space. the government is certainly another beast altogether. i'm more pessimistic than most that he'll figure it out i should imagine.

Ok, so then the idea is that basically whatever he puts his mind to/applies his philosophy to he will uncover some novel ways to approach complex problems that ultimately lead to similiar or better results that are cheaper than current solutions. 

I hope that’s true, consequences of failing at any of his previous extremely not cheap bets was basically zero pain compared to now where it’s quite literally life and death for millions of people.