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Years ago, people assumed I was really good in math, because I got mixed up in microcomputers starting in 1979. For some reason, people thought computer geeks were math wizards. I wasn’t. I was a writer, as I am to this day. So metaphors, not math, are more my thing.
A few days ago, one came to mind which struck me as particularly good, so I thought I would share it. So join me on a mental model which I think will help explain the past nine years.
(more…)Tesla is a company that attracts a lot of emotion, both positive and negative. I stopped trying to short it months ago, in spite of all the good arguments for doing so, since the beast is just so incredibly strong. I mean, hell, TSLA even went up more than 1% on Friday in the face of a total market collapse.
As a product-maker, though, I’m a fan. I absolutely love my Tesla Model S, and I’d recommend it to anyone. But, I gotta tell ya, I think Elon is starting to run out of feature ideas. Allow me to show you a feature in the latest upgrade:
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Something occurred to me a day or two ago – – crude oil, Saudi Arabia’s lifeblood, has been absolutely falling to pieces. I was wondering to myself, when did oil prices peak, and also when was the journalist Jamal Khashoggi brutally murdered and literally chopped into pieces?
I’ll save you the trouble of having to keep two separate dates in mind: the killing and the commencement of collapsing prices happened at pretty much the exact same millisecond. Startling karmic, don’t you think?
