Elon states that “we should be optimistic about the future and fight to make that optimistic future happen.” The future cannot just be about one miserable thing after another, solving one sad problem after another. There have to be things that get you excited and want to make you live. These things are important, and we should have more of them.

Looking forward to the future 

The edit button could have a timeout to avoid people changing tweets after getting interaction. But, Elon Musk is "open to ideas."
Elon's most urgent priority with Twitter is eliminating scam and spam bot armies.

Twitter edit button

Social cues for Elon that he has Asperger's syndrome were not so intuitive. He was very bookish. He took everything literally. As a result, he was frequently bullied and had a difficult childhood.
Elon consumed many books and movies, which helped him in time to understand things that most people intuitively understand.

Elon and Asperger's syndrome

Trust should be increased on Twitter as a public platform.
<ul>
<li>Twitter should be an inclusive arena for free speech. Free speech should only abide by the law.</li>
<li>We should be reluctant to delete tweets, “If in doubt, let the speech exist.”</li>
<li>There should be no behind the scenes manipulation. Not algorithmically nor manually.</li>
<li>Timeouts are better than permanent bans.</li>
<li>The Twitter algorithm should be open source and available online for people to inspect and highlight issues and suggest changes freely.</li>
</ul>

Elon Musk’s views on free speech on Twitter

Elon states that to accelerate the advent of sustainable energy, there must be scale. "We've got to transition a vast economy that is currently overly dependent on fossil fuels to a sustainable energy economy."
Energy must be sustainably generated with wind, solar, hydro, geothermal and nuclear. Then stationary storage batteries are needed since solar and wind are intermittent. This is a task for humanity, not just for Tesla, and sooner is better for the environment.

Scale is at the heart of Elon's master plan

Tesla almost went bankrupt in its pursuit to automate manufacturing and achieve volume production. The problem wasn't that they overestimated how much they could automate. Instead, they had issues with almost every aspect of the Model 3 production line, from cells to packs to motors to final assembly.
Tesla is the first car startup since the 1920s that reached production without going bankrupt. Elon lived in the factories for three years. He slept on the floor so that the team who was going through a hard time could see that he didn't just sit in his ivory tower. He was in it with them.

The Tesla Model 3 challenges

The worst business decision ever was not to start Tesla with just JB Straubel, the visionary co-founder.
Before Elon invested, Tesla was just a shell company with no employees and no intellectual property. Martin Everhard created a false narrative that he created the company.

Elon Musks worst business decision ever

On the question is funding was really secured, Elon Musk stated that “the funding was indeed secured”. However, the SEC San Francisco office still pursued an active public investigation.
The banks then warned Elon that if he didn’t settle with the SEC, they would cease to provide working capital and Tesla would go bankrupt immediately. The result was that Elon was forced to admit that he lied, even though it was false, to save Tesla's life. “I was forced to concede to the SEC, unlawfully, those bastards.”

Tesla going private. Funding secured

Dig into this collection about Elon Musk to see how his brain works, the future he envisions for the world, and a lot more.

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Books

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Problem Solving

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Business

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Leadership & Management

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Money & Investments

Inside The Mind of Elon Musk

In this unedited conversation, Elon Musk -- the head of Tesla, SpaceX, Neuralink and The Boring Company -- digs into the recent news around his bid to purchase Twitter and gets honest about the biggest regret of his career, how his brain works, the future he envisions for the world and a lot more. (This conversation with head of TED Chris Anderson was recorded live at TED2022 on April 14, 2022. If you want to hear even more, head over to "The TED Interview" podcast, where Musk and Anderson sat down at the new Tesla Gigafactory in Texas to discuss some of the radical innovations he's working on -- including an intelligent humanoid robot, SpaceX's Starship and Neuralink's brain-machine interfaces.)

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Technology & The Future

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Society, Arts & Culture

In this unedited conversation with head of TED Chris Anderson, Elon Musk — the head of Tesla, SpaceX, Neuralink and The Boring Company — digs into the recent news around his bid to purchase Twitter and gets honest about the biggest regret of his career, how his brain works, the future he envisions for the world and a lot more. (Recorded at TED2022 on April 14, 2022)

This live interview includes an excerpt from another exclusive, extended conversation recorded a few days earlier at Tesla's Texas Gigafactory. Watch that full video here: https://youtu.be/YRvf00NooN8

1:22 Tesla Texas Gigafactory interview clip
11:34 Elon Musk live at TED2022
11:48 Twitter, free speech and open-sourcing the algorithm
27:40 Tesla and short sellers
32:02 If you could go back in time and change one thing, what would it be?
33:44 Electric vehicles, manufacturing and sleeping on the floor of the Tesla factory
38:04 "At this point I think I know more about manufacturing than anyone currently alive on Earth."
39:15 Elon's "Master Plan" and accelerating a sustainable energy economy
42:36 SNL, Asperger's, childhood and how Elon's brain works
46:48 "I was absolutely obsessed with truth."
49:23 Philosophy, the meaning of life and the "why" of things
51:43 What the future will look like
52:37 "We want to do our absolute best to make sure the future is ... something you can look forward to and not feel sad about."

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