Elon Musk Is In A 'League Of His Own,' Says Steve Jobs And Tesla CEO's Biographer: 'He's A Serial Tasker'
Elon Musk Is In A 'League Of His Own,' Says Steve Jobs And Tesla CEO's Biographer: 'He's A Serial Tasker'
Apple Inc. co-founder Steve Jobs revolutionized multiple industries during his life, but Walter Isaacson, the biographer of both Jobs' and Elon Musk, thinks that the Tesla Inc. CEO is in a "league of his own."
苹果公司联合创始人史蒂夫·乔布斯一生中彻底改变了多个行业，但乔布斯和埃隆·马斯克的传记作者沃尔特·艾萨克森认为，特斯拉公司首席执行官处于 “自己的联盟”。
What Happened: In a conversation with Lex Fridman, Isaacson dived into Musk's thought process and how he manages time between his personal life, and his professional life where he manages Tesla, SpaceX, and X, formerly Twitter, among others.
发生了什么：在与莱克斯·弗里德曼的对话中，艾萨克森深入探讨了马斯克的思维过程，以及他如何管理个人生活和管理特斯拉、SpaceX和X（前身为推特等）的职业生涯之间的时间。
Isaacson, who has had a close peek into the lives of both the tech titans, thinks "Musk is in a league of his own in the way he does it" as far as time management is concerned.
艾萨克森近距离观察了两家科技巨头的生活，他认为，就时间管理而言，“马斯克的行事方式与他人不谋而合”。
"First of all, Steve Jobs had to run Pixar and Apple for a while, but Musk every couple of hours is switching his mindset from how to implant the Neuralink chip and what will the robot that implants it in the brain look like and how fast can we make it move?"
“首先，史蒂夫·乔布斯不得不管理皮克斯和苹果一段时间，但马斯克每隔几个小时就会改变思维方式，从如何植入Neuralink芯片、将其植入大脑的机器人会是什么样子，以及我们能让它移动多快？”
Isaacson recalled an incident where Musk went to the SpaceX Starbase in Boca Chica, Texas, to think about how to fix a valve in the Raptor engine with a methane leak issue.
艾萨克森回忆起一起事件，当时马斯克前往德克萨斯州博卡奇卡的SpaceX Starbase考虑如何修复猛禽发动机中存在甲烷泄漏问题的气门。
"All the engineers in that room, I assume, or thinking about, 'This guy just bought Twitter, should we say something?'"
“我想那个房间里的所有工程师，或者在想，'这家伙刚买了Twitter，我们应该说点什么吗？'”
Isaacson says Musk then went to a roadside joint in Brownsville with his brother Kimbal Musk to do nothing but listen to the music.
艾萨克森说，马斯克随后和他的兄弟金巴尔·马斯克一起去了布朗斯维尔的一个路边小镇，除了听音乐之外什么也没做。
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Musk's Strength, As Well As Weakness, Is This
这是 Musk 的优势和弱点
Isaacson marveled at Musk's ability to multitask, saying this is one of his strengths as well as weaknesses.
艾萨克森惊叹于马斯克的多任务处理能力，他说这是他的长处和短处之一。
"One of his strengths and sort of weaknesses in a way is in a given day, he'll focus serially, sequentially, on many different things."
“从某种意义上说，他的长处和弱点之一是在某一天，他将连续地、按顺序地专注于许多不同的事情。”
"He's a serial tasker, which means focuses intensely on a task for an hour," Isaacson added, and Musk now has a comeback – he says he switches context every five minutes now, and sometimes in just 30 seconds.
艾萨克森补充说：“他是一名连续任务执行者，这意味着在一个小时内全神贯注于一项任务，” 而马斯克现在又卷土重来了——他说，他现在每五分钟切换一次上下文，有时只需要30秒。
Actually, I'm switching context roughly every 5 mins on average and sometimes every 30 secs if going through texts/email.
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) May 13, 2024
A full hour on a single subject would be a long time.
实际上，我平均每5分钟切换一次上下文，如果浏览短信/电子邮件，有时每30秒切换一次。
— 埃隆·马斯克 (@elonmusk) 2024 年 5 月 13 日
在单个主题上花整整一个小时会很长时间。
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