engineering

Good taste in engineering means seeing the simple elegant solution that others miss beneath complexity

Find passionate engineers

Ethical considerations for genetic engineering

Controlling devices with thoughts

Start from physics—can the fundamental sensor do the job alone? If yes, delete the crutches

Evaluate engineers by measurable output—lines of code committed—not by title or tenure

The engineers who design it must own its production—no handoffs allowed

Design a radical future version to break mental constraints, then fold the best ideas back into the current product

Build, test, blow up, learn, and repeat faster than competitors can hold meetings

Bypass management layers to find and promote exceptional individual contributors

Rethink the material before designing the form, and let physics drive the shape

The ratio of finished product cost to raw material cost reveals manufacturing stupidity

Musk's five-step production optimization mantra that he repeats at every meeting