Aug 21, 2026 · 18 min · 8 segments
LifeBlood: When we see a big problem, what's our first instinct? Do we ask who should pay? Or do we ask who is best equipped to help solve it? This episode explores a simple but powerful question…
It's not who should pay for this, it's not who should be forced to fix this, but simply have you asked, have you actually asked someone capable of solving the problem to help solve it? Kind of a weird question, but I think it gets at something much bigger.
He created and made viable, commercially viable, in fact, wildly popular and successful electric vehicles.
They return to Earth, and then with a pair of chopsticks, he grabs the rocket, uses it again.
So whether you agree with every decision he's made isn't, isn't at all the point that I'm trying to make here.
But what I'm trying to say is, and just remind everybody and point out, he's demonstrated an extraordinary ability to build organizations and to solve the most difficult of problems.
To disrupt whatever, deconstruct, do, to do all the things that we seem to really celebrate and like, but not with him.
It's not who should pay for this, it's not who should be forced to fix this, but simply have you asked, have you actually asked someone capable of solving the problem to help solve it? Kind of a weird question, but I think it gets at something much bigger.
He created and made viable, commercially viable, in fact, wildly popular and successful electric vehicles.
They return to Earth, and then with a pair of chopsticks, he grabs the rocket, uses it again.
So whether you agree with every decision he's made isn't, isn't at all the point that I'm trying to make here.
But what I'm trying to say is, and just remind everybody and point out, he's demonstrated an extraordinary ability to build organizations and to solve the most difficult of problems.
To disrupt whatever, deconstruct, do, to do all the things that we seem to really celebrate and like, but not with him.
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