![]() ![]() I don’t, and I’m not sure I ever want responsibility at that level.īut I have worked on projects with other people. This is gonna sound like I know what it’s like to be Jobs or Gates or Musk. Suffering is part of being human but imo we all need to take responsibility to do our best to stop creating it for each other. The truth is that we now have the technology to help people work through this kind of thing fairly rapidly and I think it’s everyone’s personal responsibility to constantly clean their shadow/trauma so we don’t intentionally or inadvertently create more suffering for us and those around us. Being driven does not rule out being empathetic and a decent human being. IMO, People have a responsibility (especially if they decide to have children) to heal their own trauma so they don’t inflict it on their families and people they meet. Those traits would not hurt his productivity or drive but might make him and the people around him happier. I’m pretty sure that if Musk healed his childhood trauma it would give him space to have more balanced relationships and probably more empathy. He would have gladly given up his art to be happy. I visited the Van Gogh museum with my family and a guide over the holidays and was struck by the fact that Van Gogh himself wanted to be cured of his mental illness. There was always also the trope of the tortured artist. Crazy enough to think they can change the world." They can be reckless, cringeworthy, and sometimes even toxic. "Is being unfiltered and untethered integral to who he is? Could you get the rockets to orbit or the transition to electric vehicles without accepting all aspects of him, hinged and unhinged? Sometimes great innovators are risk-seeking man-children who resist potty training. It can be hard to remove the dark ones without unraveling the whole cloth." But it's also important to understand how the strands are woven together, sometimes tightly. One can admire a person's good traits and decry the bad ones. "Do the audaciousness and hubris that drive him to attempt epic feats excuse his bad behavior, his callousness, his recklessness? The times he's an asshole? The answer is no, of course not. The last page of the Elon Musk biography sums up my thoughts on the whole brilliant jerk thing: Though he could be a lot nicer, his high quality bar is what has allowed Linux to become so dominant.ĭo brilliant jerks get a pass? Steve Jobs, Elon Musk, Bill Gates and many of the people who -actually- did big things in the world were all well known as brilliant jerks. He's a solid combination of all of those things and I'd make the argument that Linux wouldn't be so dominant if not for his caustic personality. ![]() Lots of adjectives have been used to describe him over the decades: brilliant, caustic, asshole, jerk, mean, dictator, innovative, passionate. And the next time I see you copying VFSįunctions (or any other core functions) without udnerstanding what theį*ck they do, and why they do it, I'm going to put you in my I don't want to see a single eventfs patch that doesn't have a realīug report associated with it. Uintil somebody points to a real problem.īecause this whole 'I make up problems, and then I write overlyĬomplicated crap code to solve them' has to stop. I'm putting myįoot down, and you are *NOT* doing unique regular file inode numbers "You copied that function without understanding why it does what itĭoes, and as a result your code IS GARBAGE. Our modern world runs Linux, from electronic billboards to supercomputers. He's the creator and lead developer of the Linux kernel and Git. ![]() Are brilliant jerks worth it? Linus Torvalds is a great case study, especially due to a recent controversy. ![]()
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