Starbase Tour with Elon Musk [PART 1 // Summer 2021]

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Recommends InTheArena · 2021-08 · on “Netflix announces Space X documentary on civilian mission into orbit”

The recent interview of Elon by Tim Dodd is probably more informative and interesting this this could ever be. [this video]

Recommends senectus1 · 2021-08 · on “Tesla CEO berated employees, investors and tried to get rid of safety measures”

I can see this as being a real story. I just finished watching this really very interesting interview with Elon as he walks around the spacex stuff [this video] He got vocally and visibly annoyed with the beeping noises that the machines were making. It was a useless cacophony of beeps and you could just see in his head he was thinking "How the hell do I make this better and quieter"

Recommends _Microft · 2021-08 · on “Starbase Tour with Elon Musk (part 2) [video]”

This series is said to eventually have three parts. Part one [0] and two (this submission) were filmed at the production site "Starbase" (Boca Chica village, Texas). The third and last part is going to be at the launch site, a few kilometers/miles further to the east, right next to the beach. Part three has not been released yet. Tim Dodd usually makes a good interview partner for Elon Musk because he is more knowledgable about rockets than most reporters and can ask way more interesting questions than they could. If you haven't seen the first part yet, I would recommend to start with it [0] instead of jumping right into this one. [0] Part 1: [this video] (53 minutes long!)

Recommends jxramos · 2021-08 · on “You don’t need to work on hard problems (2020)”

Here's a great complimentary nugget of wisdom Elon Musk shared on the tour he gave of Starbase recently that intersects with a closely related concept. 17:29 Possibly the most common error of a smart engineer is to optimize the thing that should not exist. And say, well, why would you do that? Well, everyone has been trained in high school and college that you gotta answer the question, convergent logic. So you can't tell a professor, "your question is dumb", or you will get a bad grade. You have to answer the question. So everyone is basically, without knowing it, they got like mental straight jacket on that is they'll work on optimizing the thing that should simply not exist. [this video]

Recommends harshreality · 2021-09 · on “High Performance Organizations Reading List”

Everyday Astronaut's walk and talk with Elon Musk where he attempts to explain his management process, starts at 13:30 of part 1: [this video] Here's a rough summary: 1. Make requirements less dumb. 2. Delete part or process steps. If you're not occasionally adding things back (he says 10%) (ideally in improved versions), you're not removing things often enough. 3. Simplify, optimize, solve. Everyone's trained to jump to this because the educational process requires you to answer a question as posed, when often the question is dumb and shouldn't be dealt with as-stated. 4. Accelerate process 5. Automate Those tend to blur together at the edges. I'm sure if he formalized this and wrote it down for

Recommends simondotau · 2021-10 · on “Tesla is outrunning the supply chain crunch”

> This is objectively false. I commend the response by user panick21 and would add that you can watch Elon Musk demonstrate his acumen in this three part interview on Everyday Astronaut. You can't fake this kind of breadth and depth of knowledge. [this video]

Recommends martyvis · 2022-09 · on “Jack Dorsey texts Elon Musk, March 26, 2022”

Watch this walk around Starbase with Elon and Tim Dodd, and you'll get a pretty good sense that he has an engineering brain that really understands the complexities of design, build and execute more than anything. [this video]

Recommends modeless · 2022-10 · on “Brave browser to start blocking annoying cookie consent banners”

If I had to choose between network television and YouTube, I would choose YouTube every day of the week and twice on Sunday. I mean, I enjoy Seinfeld too, but on the whole YouTube is both more entertaining and vastly more useful and educational than network television. Not because the content has the highest production values, but because the content matches my interests and needs. That's the true power of targeted advertising. It allows creators to focus on niches that can't be served by content produced for a mass audience. Even large 'niches' get dumbed down to the lowest common denominator for network television. Case in point: Here's Jay Leno interviewing Elon Musk about SpaceX Starship