I think I’ve found a narrative that satisfies my own curiosity a bit and a bleak outlook for the poor millionaire. For what its worth.
Elons approach to risk correlates to the Asperger diagnosis. Go in, find the person with the best idea to upset an industry, assess what it would take, is the odds 50/50 or there abouts? Go all in. He has rolled black on the roulette a few times and doubled up each time(relatively) . But its only cause he doesnt see money like everyone else. Its just paper. It explains why he is willing to so carelessly throw 40+ billion at Twitter, but this time his motivation is not that of entrepreneurship, its one of vanity, and its why he will grind himself to death at twitter. Elon has made friends, perhaps for the first time in his life, he’s felt like a real boy, other rich guys padding him on the back, inviting him to parties, yachts, made him feel special, part of a club. Elon will do everything he can to not lose that membership. Everything. He is deeply emotional involved with twitter at a level he probably dont understand himself.