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.
Even if you are not a science fiction author, you are now living in a science fictional world, where your daily life is unthinkable....
The lack of adequate response by so many governments to the pandemic, even when plenty of positive and negative examples were already available from...
Recently I was able to observe a team member exerting real violence on software tools that he was using for completely unintended purposes. Why?...
