5 Step Process for Creating New Things: Elon Musk
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Elon Musk outlines his five-step process for making things better, including making requirements less dumb, deleting unnecessary parts or processes, optimizing and simplifying, accelerating cycle time, and automating.
Highlights
- Musk emphasizes the importance of questioning requirements, regardless of who gave them, to avoid blindly accepting them as gospel.
- Deleting unnecessary parts or processes is crucial and involves occasionally adding things back in to ensure efficiency.
- Optimizing and simplifying should be done after eliminating unnecessary components, as it is a common mistake to optimize something that shouldn’t exist.
- Increasing the speed of development should only be done after addressing the previous steps.
- Automation is the final step, but Musk admits to making the mistake of going backwards on all five steps in the past.
