1. OK, I was wrong: I really thought Musk was bullshitting. But he is, as tech analyst Benedict Evans puts it, “a bullshitter who delivers”. He doesn’t care if things are true when he says them, but sometimes makes them true anyway.
2. We can file “I’m going to buy Twitter for $54.20” alongside “I’ll sell a flamethrower”, “I’ll start a tunnelling business called the Boring Company”, and “I’ll call my baby X Æ A-12” as things that didn’t sound sincere but apparently were.
