Elon Musk is the ultimate idiot savant.

Elon Musk is the ultimate idiot savant.

He’s built some of the most ambitious companies in the world.

But let’s be real—his leadership style? A mess.

His people skills? Nonexistent.

His ability to run a company efficiently? Questionable at best.

I say this as someone who was a longtime Elon fan. I even have his Boring Company flamethrower hanging on my wall.

But last week, in the middle of the Trump-Musk media circus, he pulled another stunt:

He told federal employees to bullet-point five things they did every week—or resign.

This is classic Musk. Loud, reckless, and completely missing the point.

He claims to hate bureaucracy. Yet here he is, adding more of it.

I love checklists—when they serve a purpose.

Preflight checklists save lives.

The Checklist Manifesto proved their power in hospitals.

The best businesses thrive on structured processes.

But Musk isn’t asking for checklists to improve execution. He’s demanding them to prove existence.

That’s not efficiency. That’s busywork.

Imagine if Bezos told AWS engineers to submit weekly “proof-of-work” reports.

Or if Tim Cook made Apple designers justify their output in bullet points.

They’d laugh him out of the room—just like millions are laughing at Musk and Trump as they act outrageous for attention.

I still drive a Tesla…for now.

But even that’s up in the air at this point.