Elon Musk is acting more like a desperate man than a visionary

Business Insider ^ | 05/05/2018 | Matthew DeBord

[Cronos]

Musk's strategy over the years has been to set impossible targets and then win a (comparatively) minor victory. Reach for the stars and you manage to reach the top of the tree

I admire Musk as an engineer, a dreamer who manages to achieve many seemingly impossible targets and an inspiration for many on how to dream big technology ideas

What he is not good at is business schmoozing, accountancy and boring project management. As a project manager (in a previous life) I'd say his timelines and cost estimations are completely out of wack

But in this particular case I believe he will pull through. The battery making business is going well and there are strong indications that other manufacturers will adopt his batteries. SpaceX is great. The Boring company has potential.

Tesla has changed the way we think about cars and that is a good thing.

[Cronos]

The USPS is in doldrums because it is a strange public-private company. They can't shrink, they can't change prices without acts of Congress (which never happen) and they have a mandate to deliver at lowest cost

at the same time their business model is destroyed.

The secret to getting out is to follow what Deutsche Post did -- it merged into DHL (which was a subsidiary) and sold off Postebank to DeutscheBank