对埃隆·马斯克而言，混乱或许不仅仅是一种管理风格——他的前妻表示，那正是他感到自在的环境。
For Elon Musk, chaos may be more than a management style: His ex-wife says it’s where he feels comfortable.
周二，贾斯汀·马斯克为卡拉·斯威舍对她们以及电影制作人亚历克斯·吉布尼的访谈做了预告，同时也为吉布尼即将上映的纪录片《马斯克》做宣传。
Justine Musk described the billionaire’s appetite for intensity in a teaser posted Tuesday for Kara Swisher’s interview with her and filmmaker Alex Gibney ahead of the release of Gibney’s documentary “MUSK.”
她在访谈中这样描述这位亿万富翁对高强度环境的偏好：“我曾形容他就像那种能从悬崖边跳下去，还能在下落过程中发明出降落伞的人。我觉得他就是在混乱中如鱼得水。”
“I once described him as somebody who can, like, jump off the edge of a cliff and, you know, invent a parachute on the way down,” Justine Musk told Swisher about her ex-husband, “Like, I think he thrives on chaos.”
作为作家兼维维安·詹娜·威尔逊的母亲，贾斯汀指出这位特斯拉首席执行官常常把各种挑战描述为关乎生死的紧急事件，且带有表演性质。
Justine Musk, an author and the mother of Vivian Jenna Wilson, said the Tesla CEO's language often casts challenges as existential emergencies, with an element of performance.
她说：“在他眼里一切都是生死攸关的大事，而他也确实以这种高强度的方式生活着。”这种特质也体现在马斯克旗下的企业中。
“Everything is life and death,” she said. “And I think he really lives like that. He really lives with that pitch of intensity.”That description echoes inside Elon Musk's companies.
据《商业内幕》报道，xAI的现任及前任员工表示，随着马斯克介入程度加深，公司优先级频繁突变，还设立了多个高强度运作的“作战室”，甚至有一个由300多名工程师组成的群聊。研究人员时常被迫中断手头工作去处理马斯克提出的各种问题。
At xAI, current and former employees told Business Insider that Musk’s growing involvement led to abrupt shifts in priorities, intensive “war rooms,” and a group chat of more than 300 engineers. Researchers would interrupt ongoing work to address concerns he flagged.
“由于公司规模较小，任何事都成了紧急任务，”一位前员工曾这样告诉《商业内幕》。
“Because the company is so small, everything is a fire drill,” one former worker previously told Business Insider.
事实上，这种频繁做出重大调整又迅速推翻的做法在马斯克创办AI初创公司之前就已存在。
Musk’s willingness to make sweeping changes and quickly reverse some of them predates his AI startup.
2022年收购推特后，他曾大幅裁员，但后来又承认部分裁员措施过于极端。
After slashing Twitter’s workforce following his 2022 takeover, he said that some cuts had gone too far.
贾斯汀还提到，前夫的这种高强度特质往往能在他人察觉之前就吸引他们加入其中。“他会把这种氛围带到周围，还能把别人也卷进来。
起初这看起来就像一种令人兴奋的体验，”她说，“我一直觉得他的行为背后总有某种逻辑，只不过有时候需要一些巧妙的手段才能看出来。”
Justine Musk said her former husband's intensity can draw others in before they recognize what’s happening. "He brings it with him, and he has a way of sucking you into it, and at first it can look a lot like excitement," Justine Musk said. “I always assume that there’s a method to his madness, you know, a lot of sleight of hand sometimes."