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.
What do you do when you have to speak at two conferences in distant cities at the same time? If you are me, you...
My friend Scott Mize died last week from the consequences of a stroke that he received while walking around San Francisco a few days...
We have many skills, many senses, many ways of coping with the world, absorbing the information, changing it, structuring it, and then acting on...
