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A2A: No. Not by a long shot. - It’s not even a close contest or a fair one.Currently, Mr. Musk holds the following Official titles at those 2 companies.Tesla - CEOHere is the key excerpt from his official ‘Bio write-up’ from Tesla’s Corporate Governance doc’s about what his formal role at Tesla is…“Elon oversees the company's product strategy -- including the design, engineering and manufacturing of electric vehicles and battery products for consumers.”The key word here is “oversees”.Note: He used to also hold the role of “Chairman of the Board of Directors”, but due to legal punitive action taken by the SEC against him, he no longer holds that title. Although that title is not an engineering related role.SpaceX - CEO and CTOHere is the key excerpt from his official ‘Bio write-up’ from SpaceX.Elon Musk leads Space Exploration Technologies (SpaceX), where he oversees the development and manufacturing of advanced rockets and spacecraft for missions to and beyond Earth orbit.Again…the key word here is “oversees”.His roles are Executive CEO and CTO roles:Those executive C-Level roles are the top-most Senior Executive roles in the company. No other day-to-day operational role sits above or exceeds those roles in operational seniority, responsibility & accountability. They are also full-time permanent roles. So, you can bet he’s very busy, being explicitly ‘committed to and fully engaged in’ his Executive capacity of CEO and CTO; 1st-and-foremost. - That’s CEO x 2 and CTO x 1.If he wasn’t, the Board of Directors would be somewhat disappointed in him and look to appoint someone else to hold and execute those C-Level titles/roles.More importantly, those titles (CEO & CTO) are not fancy hollow honorary titles that are bestowed upon him for looks and good measure, where he doesn’t have to do any real Executive work. (What real work do CEO’s and CTO’s do anyway?). - Where he can wander off during the day and do other more important stuff, like…designing & engineering & building & testing cool technology inventions within his own 2 hands. - Like engineers do.Finally, his titles of CEO and CTO are not hands-on ‘Engineering explicit’ titles (although CTO can be in some companies, I don’t believe it is at SpaceX). So, it’s rather difficult to see how he’d be the “Best Engineer” at either of those 2 companies based on the primary roles that he has both a formal & fiduciary responsibility to. - FIRST ! and then being a part-time engineer in his “spare time”. - SECOND.On a side-note: the 100’s of Wikipedia editors who created, edited & nurture his official Wikipedia page (1000’s of times on his behalf) actually list his occupation as “Entrepreneur, engineer & philanthropist”. - My guess is that ‘engineer’ is more of an historical artifact on his Wikipedia page than an actual reflection of his current daily occupation.His Engineering work at Tesla and SpaceXTesla & SpaceX seems to be quite cagey (officially) about what Mr. Musk’s formal roles are on a day-to-day basis with respect to the functional engineering activities that he is physically & personally engaged in. Both companies seem to not want to reveal or disclose any deep intimate details about the tangible & material engineering related duties & tasks that he physically does, owns, runs, works on or manages on a daily basis. - yet both companies squeeze intergalactic levels of social media mileage out of the fanboy generated fantasy hype of the mysterious legend that Elon Musk is an actual engineer and not a prosaic CEO.That being said, the opposite it true on Twitter, Quora and in Thousand’s of unofficial SpaceX and Tesla websites. There, you’ll find a LOT of fluffy fabricated convoluted elaborate storytelling about the marvelous & astounding engineering feats of wonder that he personally does on a day-to-day basis that have propelled Tesla & SpaceX to glory, His engineering capabilities are truly mystical. - most of the fairy tales are untrue and infatuated fanboy whimsy.If they were true…and you were to compute the time, effort & energy (in man-hours per day) that it would take for him to be personally engaged in all those fictional engineering jobs/roles/tasks & fantastical engineering accomplishments…a normal person would be holding down 5 engineering jobs and be working 100 hours per 24 hour day window. Now add into that calculus his 2 x CEO roles and his 1 x CTO role and you’re clocking in at 8 jobs & 150+ hours of physical work in a single 24 hour day. - clearly not possible, (even for a super human Iron Man like him) to achieve that.You could also ask the question…“If he does do actual engineering work at Tesla and SpaceX?, then”…is he spending hours sketching up concepts and designs for new innovative features, components & parts for cars and rockets…and then spending more hours pounding his designs into 3D CAD Parametric Design modeling systems and running virtual tests and simulations on them to prove their viability and effectiveness. - and many more hours/days finely tweaking, tuning & optimizing the small nuances of his design. After that, is he spending more countless hours crafting and fine tuning 3D Printer machine models & data files & uploading them to 3D Metal Sinterning printers, producing his own physical parts/components and post-processing them with his own hands. Then taking his personal tools and fabricating & assembling all the parts into a final First Article unit. Then sitting down at a rocket engine (or an EV car) and attaching his prototype parts by his own hands into a complete sub-system. Or better yet, cranking up an MIG, TIG welder, Plasma-Arc or Tungsten-Arc welder and welding his own parts into life and into some other larger prototype system that he’s been personally building or some bigger engineering team has been building as a project. Or maybe prototyping/templating & hacking on code, compiling code, testing code, debugging code. Setting up, deploying and running A/B tests on new coded features (that he himself wrote) and tested with cohorts of users. Pulling and wrangling data from his test cohorts outputs. Writing & running data-science code, tweaking ML/AI algorithms and training models to crunch through data to do statistical analysis on the mountains of data & results to gain inference’s and insights on the experiment outputs of his prototypes so that he can start all over again by feeding all that data & results into a simulation to refine his code or his part prototype one more time.Oh you mean like this…NO. He doesn’t do that. - He’s not that kind of engineer.He’s actually somewhat of an honorary engineer and is given a very large ‘benefit of the doubt’ (by a lot of people) that he holds enough engineering acuity to stand shoulder-to-shoulder with real rocket science engineers & chemical & electrical engineers who do real hard-core engineering stuff. - who knows if he actually does have/hold enough real engineering qualifications & acumen?we do know that he’s read a lot of books on the subject. So he may be very good at ‘Engineering theory on paper’.we also know from many interviews that he’s publicly said: [quote: Before Tesla, I’d never made physical stuff.”] - So he’s inexperienced in the craft of hands-on engineering.Real engineers at those companies do real tangible material engineering work.He’s not spending his famous 15 minutes blocks of time (that his multiple admins schedule his executive C-Level day by)…doing those hard-core engineering things.He spends his time doing high-level CEO & CTO executive stuff.Guiding engineers to consider thinking about certain obscure problems that are pressing or as yet unseen & unobserved by the market or customers but are prescient observations that he’s correlated through deep matrixed barnstorming thought with other trusted engineers. Or he’s motivating leaders to investigate certain new technology concepts & paradigms that are trending in certain tangential or adjacent industries that nobody see’s as relative & correlated to his vision (yet) and pushing eager engineers to figure out if there is some innovative way for alternative technologies/approaches to be applied to the problem-space of rockets and EV cars, batteries, rocket engines, electric engines etc, etc. Pushing peers and direct reports to ‘fail faster’ by prototyping ideas in innovative low-cost ways that take less resources, less time and get to a ‘fast answer’ with a direction-ally accurate first-cut assessment (with supporting facts, proof & data) that he can leverage to make a quick informed go-no-go decision on that gives the company an large operational execution advantage over its competitors. - before his competitors even now they’ve moved in a different direction, again!These are the kind of ‘synthetic executive engineering tasks’ that he is intimately involved with on a day to day basis. - Engineering thought & execution leadership. - This is what’s meant by the fluffy words of… “Overseeing product strategy, development & manufacturing” - Not actual engineering hands-on hammering stuff.Not a CEO like this…and more a CEO like this…And that’s what you’d expect from a CEO & CTO of a company that makes Rockets and EV cars. - You don’t expect him to be welding stuff.and most of his fanatical fanboys know this. Yet, they don’t want to think about the cold boring truth of his executive roles or believe that he’s just a regular C-Level executive CEO & CTO first…(albeit a modern dynamic one), doing standard executive leadership stuff every day. - but he is. That’s just the facts of being CEO and CTO.The best engineer at SpaceX and Tesla are…the engineers that report directly to Mr. Musk daily. His Senior engineering leadership staffthe engineers that, if something needs to be done or a decision needs to be made and Mr. Musk isn’t around to make the decision or o.k. it…then everyone naturally goes to ‘Person X’ for the decision - (that guy).are the engineers that Mr. Musk himself spends the most amount of time hanging out with - (like Tom Mueller at SpaceX) : Tom Mueller - Wikipediaand are the engineers that Mr. Musk privately thinks of as his go-to-guys for when he really needs something to be done, now & be done right & be done with exacting technical engineering precision the 1st time. With credibility.are the engineers that Mr. Musk immediately goes to when he doesn’t know something, or he doesn’t how something works or he doesn’t know why something works the way it does. - (as strange as it may seem to some of his fanboys that…he doesn’t know everything).So, realistically no. Mr. Musk isn’t the best engineer at SpaceX or Tesla.

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I'm an entrepreneur in Indonesia. My normal weekday takes up the following template:06:30 - Wake up, breakfast6:40 - breakfast done, I review my calendar for any appointments. My secretary is my timekeeper, so I'm not always aware of what appointments I have that day. I review my "today to-do" list and pick the ones and allocate times to do it during the day. If I have more time left I'll get more to-do items.7:00 - I bathe. As I do, I let my mind roam free7:10 - I leave for the office, and having a driver means I don't need to drive, so I skim through ALL my email and RSS feeds. I immediately reply all high priority mail. I flag the ones I deem important and trash the rubbish. The rest are usually FYIs. When that's done, I sleep the rest of the journey to let my mind defrag the info.8:00 I'm at my desk, and I live by whatever my schedule tells me. I usually never set meetings before 9:30am, so my schedule usually starts with reading the flagged emails/RSS and actioning them.If not in a meeting, I take a 5 minute break every 55 minutes of work. Emails that are important immediately get actioned. I've had bad experiences where I email people who only check their email 1-2 times a day, and when I miss the window I have to wait 12-24 hours for them to read it - time which they could have used to action on the email. Any and all to-dos immediately get noted down in my to-do inbox. That's just a container until I really handle things at night.12:00 - lunch (if I don't have a lunch appointment) I always pack lunch, so I eat at my desk. Saves time that way.12:15 - done with lunch, I always brush my teeth.12:20 - go over my RSS, and read anything important12:50 - relaxation time for 10 minutes as I refresh my brain cells.13:00 back at the desk and back on my calendar until end of the working day.If I have a dinner meeting I stay in the office until such a time when I can go straight to dinner. I always sleep in the car. If no dinner meeting I'm usually home by 7:00pm7:00pm - dinner7:30pm - one hour of piano. That way I de-stress while my tummy digests.8:30pm I hit the home gym. An hour of cardio, followed by 1 (roughly) hour of weight training.22:30 - during 10 minutes of cool-down I review emails and rss again - flagging, not reading.22:40 - bathe22:50 - I review every new to-do in my inbox, and organise them in categories or projects. I make sure ALL to-do items start with a verb.23:10 - I finish whatever work is left, including remainder flagged emails and rss items. Then whenever I finish, I look at all my to-do items and decide the ones I have to do the following day, and put them all in my "today" list.Saturdays are "Strategy day" - where I set my strategic sights on what to accomplish in the next week. I swim every Saturday morning - fantastic relaxation and reflection time which helps me think, before going for some noon golf if I'm not in a meeting. 12:00 onwards I'm no longer working.Sunday is no-work day. I make a point of this. Sunday mornings I walk the dog, and I serve at church after that. I usually have lunch with family or friends, before a free schedule at night.Hope that helps?