Chris Williamson

I'm giving you a deadline.

I don't care that it's arbitrary.

I want you to feel the kind of urgency that I feel.

For sure.

There are some people who are very long tenured, but it also, I mean, I think that's part of the strategy, like churning through relatively young, brilliant engineers, no work-life balance.

This is your time in the wild of like, you are going to be here all the time, here at the drop of a hat.

But he's been doing this forever.

He did this, PayPal, he decided would, when it was before they merged, but he was going to launch x.com on Thanksgiving weekend.

And people were like, that doesn't make any sense.

Nobody's going to be paying attention.

Everybody's with their families.

Don't care.

We're launching on Sunday, on Thanksgiving.

I want everybody in here all the time.

People are like, can I go see my family?

Nope.

You're not dedicated if you're not in here working 20 hours a day trying to make this deadline.

It is urgency for urgency's sake all the time on everything.

And the people, this goes back to purpose, is like you only get that out of people if you have this incredible-

mission that people feel like they're on that they're like yes i want to show up i want you to put the pedal down i want to be used for all i'm worth i want to see what i'm capable of i want to work as hard as i can with other brilliant people on this incredibly powerful mission and i can't do it for 40 years but i can do it for two or four ten does elon do any kind of self-care morning routine meditation therapy not that there's much evidence of which i think is interesting like the most productive man on earth