Two years ago, everybody thought that Elon Musk was the smartest man alive. Perhaps the smartest man to have ever been alive. Heck, probably even six months ago people may have believed this. And it was incredibly frustrating. I have had the unfortunate misery of having to live in Elon Musk’s world for more than the last decade. I have seen his ideas come and go, and I have seen his thinking around important concepts change over time because (shock!) he, like many of my undergrads, was not born understanding aerodynamics. I have met him as a nobody, and I…

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