[IanClarke]

I was surprised how Elon talked "in depth" about technology and engineering in this video with Tim, since Elon often uses relatively simple things to talk about to reach the masses, like "rockets must be fully reusable", "we need sustainable transportation (and they are electric cars)", etc. Elon likes to use simple language and paint big pictures. But he (and his team) must have evaluated thousands of interdependent complex factors and found the one solution (e.g. Methane-propelled Starship) before reaching to these simple "big pictures" (which he then likes to talk about and present to the public) and ofc. it's the right thing to do and there is nothing wrong with it.

Elon is the new Steve Jobs, informing and educating us about the future, just like Steve did it. This time with cars and space exploration, which is just "next" (Steve Jobs informed us about the iPod and the iPhone). When Steve wiped out Nokia with the iPhone, I thought that someone from Silicon Valley would do the same for cars and there are a couple of contenders now with Tesla leading. But it's a big market with a lot of companies, and instead of wiping one out, there are just many suffering now - more or less, or still doing fine.

Though there are very much details, which he is aware of and trading/evaluating... at least with his engineers and which he does in this video, which is nice, refreshing and new information (for us and from him).

I really like Tim Dodd, though he comes from a background of "I wasn't good at school and am still excited and knowledgeable about rockets today [and so can you(everyone)]", he is sometimes over-explaining simple things imho. I have also the feeling that Tim Dodd might be a sub-par interview partner for Elon in this video, but Elon manages it fine and I think he likes Tim for everything he achieved despite not having an academic background.

Just recently I found https://youtube.com/c/MarcusHouse, which fits my taste a bit better, currently.

[hackeraccount]

Tim Dodd reminds me of Andy Weir. They're both trying to explain things that are fairly complicated to an audience which is interested but might be starting from zero. That's actually really hard to do and then they add to the degree of difficulty by not being afraid to release the minimum viable product to that end.

For me it makes both of them fun to watch because you can see them getting better. As a novelist Weir is - in my opinion - improving his craft with each novel. Same with Dodd when it comes to the videos he's making. Both really impress me.