I formed my first real impressions of Elon Musk today. I owe it to the power of active listening. With my eyes painfully shut for 30mins, I listened intently to what he had to say about the Twitter buy, saving Tesla from bankruptcy, his tough childhood, and why he Tweets unfiltered and without deliberation.
What you will read next is the impression he made on me. These are my takeaways.
Elon wants to save civilization.
That’s why he made an offer to buy Twitter, to give us back the power to exercise our constitutional right of public speech. He wants to grant us the ability to edit our tweets, but the finer details of how the action would undo or autocorrect the retweets and reposts that are multiplying and mutating across the Twittersphere - he is open to ideas.
… and I said to myself: Why is this guy so pretentious? Can’t the answer to why he bought Twitter be as simple as “Well, because I can, and I want to own the product that disrupted the me…
