Does Elon Musk Read?
Care to Read This?
I have heard these things before :
You think say na book dem deh take make am
Do you think the rich read? If they do, how will they have time to make money?
Here are two notes from two different books on my shelf. Perhaps you’d learn the probable answer from them.
… If humanity was going to get to Mars, the technology of rockets must radically improve. And relying on used rockets, especially old ones from Russia, was not going to push the technology forward.
So on the flight home, he pulled out his computer and started making spreadsheets that detailed all of the materials and costs for building a midsize rocket. Cantrell and Griffin, sitting in the row behind him, ordered drinks and laughed. “What the fuck do you think that idiot-savant is doing up there?” Griffin asked Cantrell.
Musk turned around and gave them an answer. “Hey guys,” he said, showing them the spreadsheet, “I think we can build this rocket ourselves.” When Cantrell looked at the numbers, he said to himself, “I’ll be damned- that’s why he’s been borrowing all my books.” Then he asked the flight attendant for another drink.
( Pg 99–100, Elon Musk by Walter Isaacson )
… Part 3 describes a puzzling limitation of our mind: our excessive confidence in what we believe we know, and our apparent inability to acknowledge the full extent of our ignorance and the uncertainty of the world we live in. We are prone to overestimate how much we understand about the world and to underestimate the role of chance in events. Overconfidence is fed by the illusory certainty of hindsight.
(Page 14, Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman, Winner of the Nobel Prize in Economics )
Ignorance destroys. If you’ll do it big, you have to learn precedents.
