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Elon Musk
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Twitter is Going Great!
A running catalog of Twitter's chaos under Elon Musk's ownership, modeled after 'Web3 is Going Just Great.' Tracks layoffs, advertiser departures, policy reversals, and service incidents with a sardonic timestamp format.
Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos Decision-Making
A Twitter thread by Julian Shapiro analyzing the decision-making technique shared by Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos — specifically the regret minimization framework and first-principles thinking. Condensed analysis of documented decision frameworks from two prominent founders.
Elon Musk's Mission to Mars — Wired
Wired's 2012 Q&A with Elon Musk on SpaceX's Mars mission — a document of his stated ambitions before they seemed plausible. Musk articulates the multi-planetary species argument and SpaceX's approach to reusable rockets while Falcon 9 was still new.
SpaceX: Why the US Can Beat China — The Facts About SpaceX Costs
SpaceX's 2012 cost comparison page arguing that US private spaceflight could beat China on launch costs — published the same week Facebook acquired Instagram. The bookmarker's observation that Facebook could have funded a space program with Instagram money captures the era's startup-vs-frontier absurdity.