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​​🚀Does Elon Musk need an intervention, or just a break? As you may have seen, yesterday Elon Musk made a baseless allegation against a member of the team of divers that saved those Thai boys and their football coach. The storm of criticism that followed (eventually) led to Musk deleting his tweets. It has gone beyond saying Musk is reckless and unprofessional; now it’s like the man needs an intervention to stop him tweeting. His fans will say I’m being unkind, that he just cares so much about changing the world that he’ll destroy anyone who gets in his way. His fans will ask why that is a bad thing. After all, the rest of us aren’t changing the world like Musk is, right? But being a genius doesn’t give you a pass when you act like an idiot. By recklessly throwing baseless accusations around, Musk establishing a pattern of outbursts that may worry investors in Tesla and SpaceX about his judgment. Given these regrettable Twitter outbursts and other episodes are a relatively new phenomenon, maybe they’re a sign that the stress of simultaneously running a bunch of big-vision, high-stakes companies, with lots of expectations to live up to, is getting to Musk. Maybe he needs to get some support from the people close to him. Maybe he needs to bring in a communications chief who he’ll listen to before making public statements. Maybe we can help by not paying so much attention to him. One thing’s for sure; he should take a break from Twitter. Read more in today's Big Revolution: prs.pctvix.co/2NionGp Martin Bryant, 🚀@PerspectiveIX