I have a special place in my heart for transportation. I became fascinated by its ability to make lives so much better or so much worse in a class I took at USC. Needless to say, I was pretty stoked on the Hyperloop. Imagine getting from SF to LA in 30 minutes. IMAGINE. I may also be biased because I’ve seen far too much of the 5 in my short 23 years of life.
Anyways, there has been some negativity and hesitations about the Hyperloop and rightly so. It’s really difficult to build a brand new transportation system with a technology that has never been used before. But I think shooting this idea down as unfeasible makes you a sucky person. Elon Musk is one of my favorite entrepreneurs because he’s totally DGAF (google it mom and dad). He literally finds the biggest problems to tackle then just gets after it. If he wants the Hyperloop to be built, then built it will be! We need more people like that in this world.
Being in India, which houses a third of the world’s poor, it is easy to be overwhelmed by the gigantic issues facing society. The complications and intricacies of social problems can make you want to throw your hands in the air, go back to your nice apartment by the beach and get a corporate job. BUT it is times like those I think about Elon Musk and his DGAF-ness. We need that kind of hubris is in this world. Next time there’s a super big problem, I think it’s best not to write it off as impossible but to think, what crazy idea might just solve it. Then make it happen.