Chris Williamson

And somebody was like, is it a happy storm?

I was like,

No.

I don't know that he's been formally diagnosed, but I think he has talked about either tendencies towards not just Asperger's, but also some bipolar tendencies.

And that's a hard hand, especially with a traumatic childhood and the stresses that he deals with publicly and privately.

And he carries a heavy load.

I think there's sufficient evidence that he is certainly above average, if not way up there in IQ.

He was precocious.

He was like...

head of his class as a kid and um coding video games when he was 12 and like you know had a patent his name on a patent when he was like 20 so like i think people who go around being like elon's an idiot everybody else does all the work is like that is just not an informed opinion at all but i don't think he's a thousand times smarter than any other human who's ever lived and so the difference between like all right he's smart he's probably you know certainly smarter than me but like he's not

That does not explain the difference in order of magnitudes of the outcome.

It seems like level of smart, tolerance for risk.

And grand quests, I think.

I think that is a key piece of actually what makes him special.

I think if he applied massive work ethic and first principles and ingenuity to reinventing insurance, it just wouldn't have the same zest and zeal and it wouldn't have the same level of outlier results.

What is the purpose piece?

How does that sort of factor in?

I think it's an interesting, I think he cares very deeply about humanity as a whole.

I think it's an interesting paradox where he's like,

people who criticize him for being cruel or whatever to people he works with, coming down hard on them or having really high expectations or being mean or firing people capriciously or whatever.