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by danielweber 4449 days ago
For some reason, Elon Musk has a reality distortion field that works. Most people don't.

As start-up advice, I would say you don't have a reality distortion field. If you try arguing with a customer in public, you are very likely to lose, even if you are right on all the facts.

How Musk pulls this off is something I still don't understand, but don't think you can replicate it.

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> How Musk pulls this off is something I still don't understand

Honesty, openness, lack of bullshit-bingo, the knowledge that he's in it for idealistic reasons first. It's not a reality distortion field if it's reality.

Of course I realize that to you, this sounds like I'm caught in his "reality distortion field".