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YouTube is increasingly product-driven.

Elon Musk favors biographies and historical study as a training ground for leadership and strategy, using lessons from other great leaders to inform his decisions and mental models.

Founders || #399 How Elon Works

What is the comparative value of digital art that doesn’t exist physically compared to something like a painting?

If we believe it to be of lesser value then will art itself lose value the more that creating is done digitally?

Elon Musk devoured whole libraries on subjects he wanted to master, reading every available book and technical manual until he understood the field from first principles.

Founders || #399 How Elon Works

Use projects to parse effort over time and allow things to easily be picked up and continued at any time

There’s a video of Donald Trump pointing out uneven pavers to the groundskeeper at Mar a Lago.

he says he does the same with at the White House

LLMs understand you when you use your own words and you don’t need special phrases or commands. (Programs required exactitude.)

You can ramble. You can correct yourself.

TV commercial breaks grew until ad time equaled content time.

When looking for details or fresh, unexpected ideas to add to a piece you are writing re-read notebooks.