One of the more famous e-mails arrived in May 2010 with the subject line: Acronyms Seriously Suck: There is a creeping tendency to use made up acronyms at SpaceX. “From time to time, Musk will send out an e-mail to the entire company to enforce a new policy or let them know about something that’s bothering him. They had to play Flappy Golf instead, which is like Flappy Bird, but at least there is some physics involved.” There’s one game they downloaded recently called Cookies or something. They also can’t play completely stupid video games. The rule is they have to read more than they play video games. What do I do? Create artificial adversity? How do you do that? The biggest battle I have is restricting their video game time because they want to play all the time. Shake it off.’ Even if there was a little blood, but not a lot, it was fine. When I was going to school, if they punched you and there was no blood, it was like, ‘Whatever. “If you call someone a name, you get sent home. “They might have a little adversity at school, but these days schools are so protective,” he said. He feels that the suffering helped to make him who he is and gave him extra reserves of strength and will. “It bothers Musk a bit that his kids won’t suffer like he did.
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