Simple & Deep

✓

认领

Liftoff Book 1. Treat Failure as Data, Not Defeat * Every rocket explosion or malfunction was dissected in painstaking detail. Musk demanded root-cause analyses and wouldn’t allow “unknowns” to remain unexplained. * Engineers were pushed to find first-principles solutions — stripping problems dow...

Liftoff Book Have a Mission Bigger Than Profit Elon Musk’s obsession with making humanity multi-planetary gave SpaceX a higher purpose. Everything — from cost decisions to personnel management — was guided by one fundamental question: "Will this get us to Mars sooner?" That singular focus served ...

I give an expression of care every day to each child to help him realize that he is unique. I end the program by saying, you've made this day a special day by just your being you. There's no person in the world like you, and I like you just the way you are. And I feel that if we in public televis...

Five to 10 hours a week people spend doing essentially unpaid, unskilled labor in their own home. Yet we all take that for granted, and do it every day. I think it's been the holy grail of robotics. I think it will be strange to move into a home or apartment in five years that doesn't have a hom...

At any given production meeting, whether at Tesla or SpaceX, there is a non-trivial chance that Musk will intone like a mantra what he calls the algorithm. It was shaped by the lessons he learned during the production hell surges at the Nevada and Fremont factories. I became a broken record on th...

Origins and Evolution: Trader Joe's started as Pronto Markets, a convenience store chain, and transitioned into Trader Joe's in 1967. ​ The first store opened in Pasadena, California. Focus on Product Knowledge: Trader Joe's emphasized product knowledge, especially in wine and food. ​ This approa...

Moving Assembly Line: Ford implemented the moving assembly line in 1913, which significantly reduced the time required to assemble a car. For example, the time to assemble a chassis dropped from 12 hours and 28 minutes to just 1 hour and 33 minutes. Standardization of Parts: Ford standardized par...

The most important business decision I ever made was to pay people well (asked why) Time and again, I am asked why no one has successfully replicated Trader Joe's. The answer is that no one has been willing to pay the wages and benefits and thereby attract and keep the quality of people who work ...

(upon starting his first company zip 2) at the time we couldn't even afford a place to stay, the office was 500 bucks a month, so we just slept in the office and then showered at the YMCA [3:50] I had like two choices like do a do a PhD and watch people build the internet or help build the intern...