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Musk flipped from being an apostle of automation to a new mission he pursued with similar zeal: find any part of the line where there was a holdup and see if de-automation would make it go faster.
Walter Isaacson • Elon Musk
The Twitter managers again tried to explain the constraints. Musk interrupted. “Can you have someone go to our server centers and send me videos of the insides?” he asked. It was three days before Christmas, and the manager promised the video in a week. “No, tomorrow,” Musk ordered. “I’ve built server centers myself, and I can tell if you could put
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From Errol, Isaacson intimates, Musk inherited his explosive temper and fondness for dismissing anything that displeases him as stupid. He also learned to crave crisis, to the point that decades later, as CEO of six companies, he would develop a practice of arbitrarily picking one of those companies to send into panic mode. A rule he makes his exec... See more
Constance Grady • The big Elon Musk biography asks all the wrong questions
The Idiot Index: a critical tool in Musk’s cost-cutting arsenal. It compares the cost of rocket components to the expenses incurred in sourcing their raw materials. For Musk, efficiency is paramount, and any significant disparity in cost signals inefficiency. As he bluntly told Walter Isaacson, “If the ratio is high, you’re an idiot.”
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