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.
We are convinced, through the collective narrative leveraging our scientific understanding, that we think with our brains. While that is true, there is much...
Society wants to incentivise creativity and private enterprise. Copyrights patents and trademarks have emerged as a protection of what we today call intellectual property....
It has been decided only by a slim majority of the voters, but the fact that Brexit can happen peacefully, within the framework of...
