> The point is that when you show Musk as an inspiration for entrepreneurship, you should look at his whole life- because being a serial entrepreneur absolutely has an effect on your personal life.
Think about what you're saying. I hope by now you are aware that women rightly object to this kind of mixing of the personal and professional, and that to refer to a woman's personal and relationship choices in connection with her professional standing is an obvious and much-lamented kind of sexism.
> Just because it doesn't define him doesn't mean it isn't relevant.
Do avoid saying this about a woman, about, say, Marissa Mayer, present CEO at Yahoo. Her personal and professional lives are rightly evaluated separately.
When you listen to Musk's interviews, what strikes you is the degree to which his accomplishments and his value system are strongly connected -- that what he accomplishes has everything to do with his approach to problem solving, and nothing to do with his relationships.
Do avoid saying this about a woman, about, say, Marissa Mayer, present CEO at Yahoo. Her personal and professional lives are rightly evaluated separately.
They aren't, though. When she announced the "no remote working rule" she was criticised for having babycare facilities next to her office, allowing her to care for her child at work. And it was a valid criticism- she was subjecting her employees to conditions that she insulated herself from.
If you are evaluating a person as a whole (which the article is), you can't ignore their personal life without also losing a lot of important context.
Think about what you're saying. I hope by now you are aware that women rightly object to this kind of mixing of the personal and professional
I think they object to being unfairly singled out on that basis, not that people shouldn't ever take someone's personal life into account in general.
Think about what you're saying. I hope by now you are aware that women rightly object to this kind of mixing of the personal and professional, and that to refer to a woman's personal and relationship choices in connection with her professional standing is an obvious and much-lamented kind of sexism.
> Just because it doesn't define him doesn't mean it isn't relevant.
Do avoid saying this about a woman, about, say, Marissa Mayer, present CEO at Yahoo. Her personal and professional lives are rightly evaluated separately.
When you listen to Musk's interviews, what strikes you is the degree to which his accomplishments and his value system are strongly connected -- that what he accomplishes has everything to do with his approach to problem solving, and nothing to do with his relationships.