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#415 How Elon Thinks

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#415 How Elon Thinks

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My friend Eric Jorgenson spent years—and thousands of hours—studying Elon Musk. Eric read everything Elon has written, read everything written about Elon, and watched every interview Elon's given. He distilled all of Elon's insights into his new book. This...

Highlights

David Senra and Eric Jorgenson explore Elon Musk’s ideas on usefulness, first-principles thinking, engineering, company building, leadership, speed, and persistence.
01:20
Be useful
04:12
Excellence requires pain
07:44
Physics is the ultimate judge
12:39
Work backwards from the ideal product
15:48
Engineering creates value
19:33
Starting a company is like eating glass
25:05
Communication should take the shortest path
32:55
Speeding up something that shouldn't exist is absurd.
37:17
Attack the constraint.
40:04
Celebrate production, not prototypes
44:08
Vertical integration creates speed
47:40
Never give up

Chapters

Usefulness, ambition, and the willingness to endure
00:00
Truth, physics, and first-principles reasoning
06:33
Designing, learning, and leading through difficulty
12:30
Truthful organizations and disciplined execution
24:02
Manufacturing, pressure, and survival
37:21
Vertical integration, iteration, and meaningful missions
43:35

Transcript

David Senra: My friend Eric Jorgenson has spent a few years and thousands and thousands of hours reading everything that Elon has written, reading everything that he has written about Elon, watching every single interview that Elon has ever given, and then...