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creating and destroying; built flying cars & autonomous vehicles, now building /faust, more here: /july, web: july.rocks

Thing that struck me most was that Elon is an excellent email communicator. There’s no fluff or room for misinterpretation.

The best engineers that I worked with that were 100x engineers and some of the most intelligent people I ever worked with

But honestly they weren’t that much better technically than others I knew (some were better and would write more code faster) - what they were really good at - great communicators, and that’s why their ideas got buy in from the team / management etc

this is extremely relatable as an engineer. most people making product decisions are non-technical. they don’t care much about the cool tech stuff being used to develop a product, they care about how it will impact the customers. creating a customer story with clear communication is what really matters. tech people (like me) focus too much on the how, but it’s the why that actually makes a difference.