I kinda get that vibe too. But without knowing more about him, I imagine what I perceive might also just be someone who’s very confident in themselves who doesn’t necessarily care very much what others think about him. Which, Linus has built his own company from the ground up, and it has made him very wealthy, so, he has some legitimate reason for that confidence, in his competence and his f you money. I suppose that might also co-occur with easily overlooking other people’s problems, or being narcissistic though. Which is bad for a boss (e.g. Elon). Still, hard to just summarily judge without more information

Well, I’m glad it wasn’t the main bridge for Galveston island, that would’ve been all kinds of bad

Have you ever actually been outside the US?

I wonder if it isn’t a symptom of things going from high competition environment between new internet services and older stuff like cable to more established systems of revenue which don’t have as much incentive to compete for workers or market share. So maybe that’s the end result of approaching monopoly.

I went to Colorado Springs a little while ago and had to do a double take when I saw that a gas station was advertising that as its name. Absolutely blew my mind when I realized it is a huge chain there.