- Dear Elon Musk,
you went through hell as a kid
and you've accomplished like
incredible things in your life,
and you are on the brink
of unprecedented greatness.
Like Alexander the Great type stuff,
who I've heard you admire.
You've made reusable rockets a thing,
rockets that land on
drone ships autonomously.
Inspiring a whole new generation,
my son included,
in exploring space and
looking at these things
in whole new way that had almost died,
that was really on a decline in the world,
definitely on a decline
here in the United States.
On top of that, you've
made electric cars sexy,
literally, you've made them sexy.
This is all in addition
to your accomplishments
prior to that like making online banking
a thing that actually
works, and that we trust.
You know, millions, I
mean not even millions,
tens of millions of people look to you
as one of the last hopes for humanity.
Seriously, tens of millions
of people if not more,
look to you as our leader
to help us get to Mars,
to help us switch to a sustainable
form of transportation,
to help you know, dispel a lot of the
bad and negative stuff that's been stuck
and that has lead to the decline
of natural resources and
different civilizations.
You've given us hope.
So, with all that in mind,
I feel like I speak for a lot of your fans
when I say please chill on Twitter.
Please just take break,
just don't post anything
for three months, just
nothing, nothing at all.
Let you know, your Tesla PR
do it, or the SpaceX team.
You know, stop criticizing the press.
We know that they're biased
and controlled by oligarchs,
that how it works, that's not new.
They all have their own agendas,
and they push their
perspectives, we all get that.
Right, some people don't but you know,
there are a lot of people calling that out
so we don't need you to do that.
Alright, there are other
things you could be working on,
and stop worrying about
people that hate on you,
about little things.
When someone says that
idea was ridiculous,
it was just a PR stunt,
when you know it wasn't.
And when you know that
you were in direct contact
with the people running the program,
and that they were saying "keep doing it."
So, you know Tesla is great,
the production problems that
they have are almost behind us,
we are the brink of making
electric cars mainstream
in the biggest car country in
the world, the United States.
It's incredible.
We as people, you know natural
born citizens of this country
are lucky to have you here
with us, it's incredible.
And the thing I have to say is like
the amazing people at Tesla and at SpaceX
deserve to have a leader
that will do better
then you've done recently with
a lot of these Twitter rants.
Now, you don't have to
take my advice obviously,
you don't have to listen to this,
you probably won't even see
it, you don't care, I get it.
But as someone that has some
influence and some voice
to share from a large number of people
that follow you, I encourage
you to take a break,
and I want you to be better.
Because I know you are.
Now if you need to take time
away from running the companies
to you know, recenter, do it.
You have JB who would be an
incredible CEO and is great.
You have Gwynne, Gwyneth
Shotwell over at SpaceX
who is also great.
You have people, you have great teams
and people on those teams who can step in
and give you whatever
you need to rebalance.
So my point is that I
know from your childhood
that suffering is what you knew.
I know that you feel
that it's in your nature
and the suffering the
greater the thing will be,
hence sleeping at the factory on the floor
when we provided you with
a perfectly good couch.
But you do have great teams of people
that can handle the stuff
without you needing to suffering
and bring them along with you
on that journey of suffering,
it's not necessary for
these things to succeed.
And from the tens of millions
of people that follow you
and that look to you
as this beacon of hope,
please do us a favor and just try to tame
some of the Twitter stuff
and some of the public stuff.
Do you, we love you, and we
love how you stand up for things
but this is a case where we all could just
have a moment to pause and reset.
I don't know if you'll
see this, I doubt it,
but please keep the missions going,
please keep progressing on that stuff,
and let's let this other nonsense kind of
fall behind us so we can move forward
with some of these really
important missions.
