"I'm just a simple sheep..." Musk tweeted recently. This billionaire who is nearly 1 meter 9 tall and as strong as a bear is actually so literary and fresh in his heart, which is indeed a little cute. Is this guy really going to take us to Mars?
Of course, you can't think that this billionaire is really a literary youth, this sentimentality is just a small close-up of his complex and multi-faceted.
Recently, I have just read "Musk's biography", and I have also read "Jobs biography", I want to compare the two, after all, these are two era idols, I want to compare: which of the two is greater? Who is more cattle?
Musk sold his first technology company "Zip2" at the age of twenty-eight, and earned twenty million dollars of young rich people, lived a wonderful and cheerful life, and then in one breath continued to start a business, invested in the creation of "X.com", "PayPal", "spaceX", Tesla, Sun City, and every family is an industry leader.
Serial entrepreneurs are not unusual, but entrepreneurs like Musk who span software, hardware, space, automobiles, and new energy are a bit confusing. Of course, the most jaw-dropping thing is that this guy vowed to let humans go to Mars, and not just like NASA's Apollo program, he wanted humans to build cities with millions of people on Mars, and eventually let humans colonize Mars, and this is not like a university professor said: landing on Mars is theoretically feasible, this kind of thing is not impossible.
This crazy guy even gave a schedule: there will be two starships on Mars in 2022, six starships in 2024, and two of them will be manned, and there will be about 100 people on each ship, that is, in 2024, there will be at least one earth village on Mars!
Of course, we don't say he's crazy or a liar when he says this, it's because this guy does have two shots, and a lot of what he says isn't empty-handed.
He was a genius programmer, a genius with an explosive IQ, and in the words of his colleagues: his mind was worthy of the minds of all his colleagues in the office...
Crucially, there's good evidence of what he says about allowing humans to colonize Mars — his space exploration technology company Spacex has developed an unprecedented reusable rocket with thrust comparable to the Apollo-planned Saturn V rocket.
This crazy plan is underway... Musk's attempt to colonize Mars is not a hoax as some say, even if it is a hoax, and he does it with enough sincerity...
How did this extreme genius come about?
First of all, it has to be said that there is a certain genetic factor to this, his ancestors have the gene to take risks, his father is a brilliant engineer, and his mother is a nutritionist and model. Secondly, when he was a child, Musk was a walking encyclopedia, he could read one book or even two books a day, and there was no encyclopedia of literature, history and technology that he did not read, since he was a child, think about the amount of reading in his life?
"The Painter and the Hacker" says that nerds are always positively correlated with high INTELLIGENCE, which is true. Moreover, he is an extremely hard worker, in his own words, to "work hard every minute of waking up" when starting a business. Even now, two years after Tesla's lackluster mass production, he lived in the factory and often slept in a corner of the factory — a super-rich man worth more than $10 billion.
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His idol was Alexander Belt, and if you read the biography of Alexander the Great, you will understand that it was also a super soldier who charged in front of him for days of sleepless charge in pursuit of the enemy. Yes, Musk's requirements for his men are that they all be the standard of special forces.
Why fight so hard? He has had an existential crisis since he was a child, when he was a child, this nerd was always bullied by those classmates with mediocre IQs, because he always bluntly corrected the mistakes of those ordinary classmates, such as the distance from the earth to the moon, people open their mouths is 108,000 miles, Musk will correct the other party's accurate earth-moon distance is 384403.9 kilometers, which makes those classmates extremely annoyed, because as far as ordinary people are concerned, no one likes their IQ to be degraded, but Musk may not have seen Carnegie's "How to make friends and influence others" His outspokenness was always humiliated and scolded, and once he was even pushed down the stairs by several classmates and almost fell to his death. In his opinion, it was just telling the truth.
If it is someone else, he may choose to compromise, but Musk chooses to be more extreme: to strengthen IQ, weaken social, maybe he has no choice, maybe this is the fate of all geniuses with Asperger's syndrome. In terms of social skills, he may be a sheep, and he is the weakest of the flock.
Musk's style of pursuing the right thing in everything makes him different from ordinary people, and perhaps most people's way of knowing the world comes from the ideas of their predecessors or others. And Musk is not, he advocates extreme independent thinking, his cognition is based on atomic facts, and he believes that the only unbreakable thing is the laws of physics.
A wonderful example of the first principles he espouses is this: Conventional wisdom holds that a rocket is worth $65 million or more, so is that true? At the atomic level, a rocket is just a combination of a bunch of metal and other materials, how much does it cost to buy these raw materials on the market? In fact, the price of these resources is only 2% of the total price of existing rockets.
His rocket company is based on such a concept, they tear down and start over, from scratch to think and design rockets, a lot of things are produced by themselves, coupled with the pursuit of reusability, SpaceX's rocket offers and safety are far superior to other companies, often SpaceX's offer is only one-third of the opponent's, a quarter, after all, now SpaceX's rockets have been safely launched and recovered nearly 20 times, these dazzling achievements, let SpaceX became a superstar in the field of aerospace.
So, going back to the question we started with, Musk and Jobs, who is greater?
First of all, in terms of personal ability:
Musk is more intellectually strong. Musk is competent in software development, car design, new energy, rocket manufacturing, spacecraft design, and Jobs has changed many aspects such as personal computers, mobile phones, music, tablets and even retail, but Jobs has done more than packaging, and driving others to complete. He was more often a great product manager, a businessman with extremely high taste, and of course both were extremely successful businessmen.
And Musk is personally as a technical leader, he is more like an engineer with an explosive IQ, so Musk beat Jobs intellectually, of course, Jobs is more charismatic, which Musk admits: I am not as cool as Jobs. Apple's product design is better, although many people like Tesla's shape, but I think Tesla's shape is not cool enough overall, of course, except for roadster.
Second, in terms of impact: Musk is definitely bigger.
Jobs created the Mac computer, I have always felt that it is the best laptop in the universe, this article is done with a Mac laptop, I have to say that working with a Mac notebook is a great enjoyment, of course, the iPhone is also a near-perfect product. Jobs did create a lot of great products, he promoted the application of software and hardware on the Internet, so that ordinary people can also enjoy the fun of technology, of course, this is also great, but that's all.
And Musk is different - I think, if there is really a God or superintelligence in the universe, he judges the level of intelligence of our human beings, one of the most important watersheds, is to see if we humans can leave the home planet to reach another celestial body, I think the Apollo moon landing plan, is this watershed, this is the greatest qualitative change! The landing of humans on Mars is an extension of this qualitative change, so that we can enter a more open space, and human beings have more possibilities... Musk brings more of this possibility.
Musk is focused on saving humanity, and he's more like the comic book superhero who saves the world. When we usually say that someone is busy saving the planet, it's basically a joke, but Musk is serious.
It is estimated that since he was a child reading those superhero comic books, he has had this impulse. He pushed for changes in Internet payments, built environmentally friendly Tesla electric cars, and freed humanity from fossil fuel dependence and pollution — something he didn't do alone, but at least he was a leader who aspired to make humanity multi-planetary, and he was almost indispensable!
Some people have done electric vehicles before and failed. And interstellar travel is simply a step backwards, since the Apollo program decades ago, mankind has long since landed on the moon, let alone Mars...
The Americans even rely on Russia to send people to the International Space Station... No one has the ambition to promote interstellar travel, human beings may one day break out in the competition for fossil fuels, and then enter the nuclear winter, it is estimated that they will not wait for an asteroid to hit the earth, and humanity will be destroyed in the war...
That prospect is gloomy, but Musk, with his talent, courage and spirit of sacrifice, has changed the energy mix and avoided potential wars in the future, and his ambitious Martian colonization plan will completely change the future of humanity, and it is natural that humanity will get a backup on Mars, which is natural, and I think it is natural to have another backup on Titan later... A big part of the credit for all of this comes from Musk.
So, my conclusion is that Jobs is bull, Musk is bull!
Maybe 100 years from now, when people talk about Jobs in a bar on Titan, they will say that the guy's taste is the best, our latest product design inspiration is from the old MacBook Air notebook, and when they talk about Musk, they will say that Musk established colonies on Mars and Titan, otherwise when the asteroid hits the earth in 2090, human civilization is estimated to have to evolve from crocodiles again...