Thanks, Michael. As someone currently working at Tesla Energy/Autobidder (have been here for the past ~8 years), everything you wrote fully resonates. This is one of many reasons I don't think I'll be at Tesla for much longer - despite the people being awesome, the mission as critical as ever, and having great opportunities for growth. Elon's limits and idiosyncrasies aren't a new thing, but the damages he's producing are unprecedented, and it's becoming harder and harder to justify contributing to his ability to degrade public institutions and attack minorities in the name of Tesla's mission.
I think you know what you need to do. It will be harder than quitting Twitter, but it is time to accept that the good old days are over and move on. I wish you luck, and I’m sure you won’t regret the decision.
I really enjoyed this article (if that's what it is called now!) and always lovely to get insight on a 'personality' like Musk from some brief interactions with someone like you. The recent insights on Tesla's self-driving from engineer Mark Rober was both frightening and amusing at the same time (as long as you are not the boy figure who is essentially the crash-test dummy). Every household having 5 tesla Bots in within 5 years? What would be the point even if they were really cheap? Anyway ... it is someone of a shame that Tesla - who have created excellent cars and no doubt have a lot of smart folks working for the company - are essentially being undermined by their own CEO. But the board did give him a vote of confidence not so long ago, so you do reap what you sow.
I stopped reading posts on X (Twitter) late last year. While searching / archiving on LinkedIn may be poor I enjoy reading your posts on there. Very much looking forward to the new episode of 'Cleaning Up' as I noticed the preview thumbnail last week - looks very interesting. Maybe someday I will visit Bluesky. But I need a life outside the internet!
When the wall came down in 1989, I quit my studies in Eastern Germany, moved to Cologne, started from scratch and thought myself in the best system imaginable. Thirty years later I’ve made my way, but start to look into the abyss again.
Incompetence, ignorance, manipulation, cowardice, selfishness all push us into the wrong direction. And that is true for tariffs as well as energy/material world issues (physics, chemistry), the Eurodollar (trade) system and, increasingly, all our social interactions.
Thanks for remaining a thoroughly analysing, outspoken and common sense driven observer.
Thanks for your comment. My mother’s side of the family was from Czechoslovakia, and visited a number of Soviet-bloc countries before the wall came down - which is why I am a lifelong anti-Communist. Never did I think the party of Reagan would abandon its allies, ignore the Constitution and align itself with a revanchist Soviet-nostalgic Russia. It is beyond shocking.
My biggest worry is that this will further undermine trust in market economies, going full circle back to planned economy/socialism here in Germany (communism was always still way off).
Well that was probably the best articulated "I'm Leaving" card I've ever read! Well said :)
Thanks!
Thanks, Michael. As someone currently working at Tesla Energy/Autobidder (have been here for the past ~8 years), everything you wrote fully resonates. This is one of many reasons I don't think I'll be at Tesla for much longer - despite the people being awesome, the mission as critical as ever, and having great opportunities for growth. Elon's limits and idiosyncrasies aren't a new thing, but the damages he's producing are unprecedented, and it's becoming harder and harder to justify contributing to his ability to degrade public institutions and attack minorities in the name of Tesla's mission.
I think you know what you need to do. It will be harder than quitting Twitter, but it is time to accept that the good old days are over and move on. I wish you luck, and I’m sure you won’t regret the decision.
Nicely put as always Michael - you have a lovely gift of writing great content in clean and neat prose
Thanks Harry! It’s not a gift, it’s a lot of practice. And I’m still learning my craft…
End of an era, but yes agree LinkedIn and Bsky are great alternatives.
And honestly I see more UK-centric energy chat there than I did on Xitter
I really enjoyed this article (if that's what it is called now!) and always lovely to get insight on a 'personality' like Musk from some brief interactions with someone like you. The recent insights on Tesla's self-driving from engineer Mark Rober was both frightening and amusing at the same time (as long as you are not the boy figure who is essentially the crash-test dummy). Every household having 5 tesla Bots in within 5 years? What would be the point even if they were really cheap? Anyway ... it is someone of a shame that Tesla - who have created excellent cars and no doubt have a lot of smart folks working for the company - are essentially being undermined by their own CEO. But the board did give him a vote of confidence not so long ago, so you do reap what you sow.
I stopped reading posts on X (Twitter) late last year. While searching / archiving on LinkedIn may be poor I enjoy reading your posts on there. Very much looking forward to the new episode of 'Cleaning Up' as I noticed the preview thumbnail last week - looks very interesting. Maybe someday I will visit Bluesky. But I need a life outside the internet!
Michael, you are my beacon of hope.
When the wall came down in 1989, I quit my studies in Eastern Germany, moved to Cologne, started from scratch and thought myself in the best system imaginable. Thirty years later I’ve made my way, but start to look into the abyss again.
Incompetence, ignorance, manipulation, cowardice, selfishness all push us into the wrong direction. And that is true for tariffs as well as energy/material world issues (physics, chemistry), the Eurodollar (trade) system and, increasingly, all our social interactions.
Thanks for remaining a thoroughly analysing, outspoken and common sense driven observer.
Thanks for your comment. My mother’s side of the family was from Czechoslovakia, and visited a number of Soviet-bloc countries before the wall came down - which is why I am a lifelong anti-Communist. Never did I think the party of Reagan would abandon its allies, ignore the Constitution and align itself with a revanchist Soviet-nostalgic Russia. It is beyond shocking.
My biggest worry is that this will further undermine trust in market economies, going full circle back to planned economy/socialism here in Germany (communism was always still way off).