A SpaceX engineer once described receiving an email from Elon Musk at 1:47am.
The email was one sentence long. Just a question about a valve pressure reading from a test that had happened nine hours earlier.
The engineer responded at 7am when he woke up. By the time he opened his inbox Elon had already sent two follow up emails. One with a proposed solution. One asking why no one had responded yet. It was 3:12am when the second email was sent.
The engineer said what disturbed him wasn't the hour. It was the specificity. Elon had referenced a data point buried on page 47 of a 200 page test report that had been distributed to the team that afternoon. He had not only read the entire report. He had found an anomaly in the data that the team who wrote the report had missed.
He said the running joke at SpaceX is that Elon doesn't sleep. The less funny version is that he sleeps but his brain doesn't stop processing. Engineers describe receiving emails that reference conversations from weeks ago, data from months ago, and connections between projects that nobody else had linked. As if his mind runs a background process 24/7 that never powers down.
The scariest part isn't the late hours. It's the precision. A CEO of six companies remembering a valve pressure reading from page 47 of one report among hundreds he receives weekly. That's not dedication. That's a different kind of brain. And the people who work for him either find it inspiring or terrifying. Usually both at the same time.
@Androphilia76 Mine is between a rich part of town and where college kids live in apartments. Its nice. Hotties too.
Another I won't drive through the parking lot.
It's unfortunate that for many Americans, starting with the Millennials, that grew up in the digital age got next to zero education in the humanities and that means next to zero comprehension how Western Civilization developed.