Musk does have a special talent, but the talent is for hype: projecting the kind of overconfidence that gets investors who also have shallow technical understanding to give him money.
That kind of overconfidence •requires• ignorance. Any actual understanding of technical details might make him a dangerous sense of •nuance• and •complexity•, which of course scare away investors looking for a Supergenius Unicorn who can offer huge returns.
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