Multitasking Hurts — Elon Musk Is Living Proof

What can we learn from Elon Musk’s Twitter experiment

Ilam Padmanabhan
5 min readNov 23, 2022
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We’ve all been there. You’re trying to finish a report for work while also monitoring your inbox and keeping one eye on the news. Or maybe you’re trying to have a conversation with a friend while also texting other friends and updating your Facebook status.

We live in a world where it seems like we are always doing two or more things at once. Does it acutally help?

Elon Musk added Twitter to his profile recently, but he already does a lot!

Practical examples of Elon Musk multitasking

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1. He is the founder, CEO and CTO of SpaceX

2. He is the co-founder of Tesla Motors and its current CEO

3. He is the co-founder and chairman of OpenAI, an organization dedicated to promoting artificial intelligence research

4. He is the chairman of SolarCity, a solar energy company

5. He is the founder of The Boring Company, a tunnel construction company

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Ilam Padmanabhan

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