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I doubt SpaceX would be a thing if Elon didn't have engineering capabilities.
by AimForTheBushes 7y ago
I doubt SpaceX would be a thing if Elon didn't have engineering capabilities.
- woodandsteel 7y agoI have read that when he gets interested in a technical area, he reads a ton of books at a remarkably fast pace, remembers everything he reads, next analyses everything at a fundamental level, and finally comes up with a radically better plan than anyone else has before. I guess you could call that engineering capabilities.
- fastball 7y agoIf that's not engineering I don't know what is.
- uncleberg 7y agoI had three peers in my entire engineering classes like that. Two became PhDs, one has changed fields and applied himself rapidly. I wasn't like them, but that ability to understand on a fundamental level, not forget, and then very quickly tackle more and more complex problems so fast was like a superpower. It took me much much longer, without the detailed understanding.