Elon Musk Five Step Improvement Process

everyone's wrong no matter who you are everyone's wrong some of the time the most common error of a smart engineer is to optimize a thing that should not exist why would people do that well everyone's been trained in high school and college that you've got to answer the questions convergent logic so you can tell the Professor your question is done that you'll get a bad grade you have to answer the question so everyone's basically without knowing it they got like mental straight jacket on they'll work on optimizing the thing that should simply not exist just make your requirements less dumb your requirements are definitely dumb it does not matter who gave them to you it's particularly dangerous if a smart person gave you the requirements because you might not question them enough no matter who you are everyone's wrong some of the time then uh try very hard to delete the part or process this is actually very important if you're not occasionally adding things back in you are not as leading enough the bias tends to be very strongly towards let's add this part of Priceless step in case we need it but you can basically make in case Arguments for so many things only the third step is simplify or optimize the third step got the first step finally you get to step four which is accelerate cycle time if you're moving too slowly go faster but don't go faster until you have worked on the other three things first and then the final step is automate personally made the mistake of going backwards on all five steps multiple times I automated accelerated simplify it and then deleted

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Published: Sat Dec 03 2022