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Elon Musk on How to Build the Future

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1106 points sama | 1 comments | 15 Sep 16 18:05 UTC | HN request time: 0.211s | source
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kelvin0 ◴[15 Sep 16 19:50 UTC] No.12509252[source]▶
Great interview, I'm always really interested in hearing what entrepreneurs like Musk have to say. However, none of the interviews ever seem to delve into the personal aspects of his life. I would love to have Elon go through a typical day and explain how achieves some balance in his life and what that looks like for him. Being a husband, a father and a friend must be quite challenging and I would love to hear more about how he views his life in general.
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1. weinzierl ◴[15 Sep 16 20:04 UTC] No.12509368[source]▶
He gives us a glimpse into his life in the interview:

At Tesla his time is spent "almost entirely with the engineering team, working on improving the Falcon 9 and our Dragon spacecraft and developing the Mars Colonial architecture."

At Tesla he is "in the design studio, take up a half a day a week, dealing with aesthetics and look-and-feel things. And then most of the rest of the week is just going through engineering of the car itself as well as engineering of the factory."

He spends "basically half a day at OpenAI most weeks"