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."
蘋果公司聯合創始人史蒂夫·喬布斯一生中徹底改變了多個行業，但喬布斯和埃隆·馬斯克的傳記作者沃爾特·艾薩克森認爲，特斯拉公司首席執行官處於 “自己的聯盟”。
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.
發生了什麼：在與萊克斯·弗裏德曼的對話中，艾薩克森深入探討了馬斯克的思維過程，以及他如何管理個人生活和管理特斯拉、SpaceX和X（前身爲推特等）的職業生涯之間的時間。
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.
艾薩克森近距離觀察了兩家科技巨頭的生活，他認爲，就時間管理而言，“馬斯克的行事方式與他人不謀而合”。
"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·喬布斯不得不管理皮克斯和蘋果一段時間，但馬斯克每隔幾個小時就會改變思維方式，從如何植入Neuralink芯片、將其植入大腦的機器人會是什麼樣子，以及我們能讓它移動多快？”
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.
艾薩克森回憶起一起事件，當時馬斯克前往德克薩斯州博卡奇卡的SpaceX Starbase考慮如何修復猛禽發動機中存在甲烷泄漏問題的氣門。
"All the engineers in that room, I assume, or thinking about, 'This guy just bought Twitter, should we say something?'"
“我想那個房間裏的所有工程師，或者在想，'這傢伙剛買了Twitter，我們應該說點什麼嗎？'”
Isaacson says Musk then went to a roadside joint in Brownsville with his brother Kimbal Musk to do nothing but listen to the music.
艾薩克森說，馬斯克隨後和他的兄弟金巴爾·馬斯克一起去了布朗斯維爾的一個路邊小鎮，除了聽音樂之外什麼也沒做。
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Musk's Strength, As Well As Weakness, Is This
這是 Musk 的優勢和弱點
Isaacson marveled at Musk's ability to multitask, saying this is one of his strengths as well as weaknesses.
艾薩克森驚歎於馬斯克的多任務處理能力，他說這是他的長處和短處之一。
"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."
“從某種意義上說，他的長處和弱點之一是在某一天，他將連續地、按順序地專注於許多不同的事情。”
"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.
艾薩克森補充說：“他是一名連續任務執行者，這意味着在一個小時內全神貫注於一項任務，” 而馬斯克現在又捲土重來了——他說，他現在每五分鐘切換一次上下文，有時只需要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.
實際上，我平均每5分鐘切換一次上下文，如果瀏覽短信/電子郵件，有時每30秒切換一次。
— 埃隆·馬斯克 (@elonmusk) 2024 年 5 月 13 日
在單個主題上花整整一個小時會很長時間。
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