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This is such a silly, blow-hardy meme (like Marissa Meyer suggesting that you can get ahead by limiting how often you use the bathroom [0]).

It doesn't take a meaningful amount of time to submit a tweet or use the bathroom. (And, even if it did, human effort isn't fungible.)

[0] https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/on-leadership/wp/2016/09...

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If a tweet takes 30 seconds to conceive, type, and submit, Elon Musk has spent 45 hours of his life tweeting -- no way to estimate how much time spent reading, which is usually a higher proportion for non-egomaniacs. Judging by the way he talks, he could have used that time a little more productively by reading a couple books. Conveniently, also much harder to tank your stock price while doing.

Considering the influence of his Twitter account, Musk should be spending a lot longer than 30 seconds composing a tweet.

You'd think, right?

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