It’s Mad, Mad World
Pointless AI Chess Tournaments, Trump’s CEO Tirades, and the Future of Work
Topic
Tesla
A collection of 17 issues
Musk Endures an Annus Horribilis of HIs Own Making
This one is relatively long, but it’s also entertaining. You don’t get this piquant fare from an anodyne AI bot, so pull up a chair and enjoy the feast.
Musk and Trump Were Never Friends, Which is Why They Might Reconcile
Real Friendship Doesn’t Involve Cold Calculation
Musk Bemoans Fate, Dell Gets AI Boost, and Microsoft Overseas News
The Vain Task of Keeping Up
Let’s Face It: Even the Irreplaceable are Replaceable
If Everybody is Replaceable, Nobody Can be Irreplaceable
Elon Musk and Tesla: A Business Parable for Our Times
Everybody is Fallible, Lessons Can be Learned
When CEO and Company Are Synonymous, Risks Can Overshadow Rewards
Like an auteur of the 1960s and 1970s, I feel compelled to revisit certain themes, not so much to repeat them as to explore them further.
An early composition on this forum dealt with the evolving behavior of ultra-rich industrialists. In the age of the Robber Barons, the obscenely wealthy
Tesla and the Fickle Magic of Sentiment
One challenge associated with expounding on events is having to choose from a multiplicity of subject matter. On any given day — today, for instance — I could take this vehicle and drive it in any of several directions.
But since I’ve invoked a driving metaphor, let’s go with Tesla’
Musk’s Empire: Why Tesla Might Suffer from Rise of SpaceX
The Cloud Era Abides: Why Nvidia Has Not Subverted the Status Quo
In closing yesterday’s post, I wrote the following:
One analyst yesterday said that Microsoft’s mildly disappointing cloud results, combined with its ever-expanding capital expenditures, represented a “transfer of wealth from Microsoft shareholders to Nvidia shareholders.”
Tomorrow I will challenge such a facile view, which is, at best, glancingly