What does it mean for Elon Musk to start from first principles? When does he address a given technological challenge? Can we take inspiration from the approach and apply it to other problem sets in front of us?
Too rarely if ever people running established processes ask themselves: “If I went back to the drawing board, could I achieve some kind of radical improvement that would vastly out compete the previous approach?” There are many reasons for not doing that. One one hand, it requires real creativity and effort, ingenuity, and invention on top of innovation. On the other hand, it also requires a lot of risk taking and dedicating resources in finding the new solution, resources that are taken away from the incremental improvements that could be applied to the existing solution.
As we look out on the world, trying to understand it, we structure our knowledge of the information collected, across several dimensions. Spatial, temporal,...
Is it worth dreaming impossible dreams? Think about it. What is the alternative? Should you not dream at all, or only dream, reasonable dreams?...
Just like organisms preserve their identity and attack the other, organizations have an immune system as well. Especially successful ones, which can devote even...
