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Chris Williamson

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Modern Wisdom
#1082 - Eric Jorgenson - The Wild Psychology of Elon Musk

This version is like you want the designers and the engineers and the manufacturers, they all work in the plant so they can see the downstream effects of the decisions that they make in the design process.

Modern Wisdom
#1082 - Eric Jorgenson - The Wild Psychology of Elon Musk

Um, it's very, it's very easy to try to break your feedback loop and not sense when you're doing something harmful or even not missing an opportunity to do something great that could benefit you.

Modern Wisdom
#1082 - Eric Jorgenson - The Wild Psychology of Elon Musk

Yeah.

Modern Wisdom
#1082 - Eric Jorgenson - The Wild Psychology of Elon Musk

And on the production line, it's like walk to the red.

Modern Wisdom
#1082 - Eric Jorgenson - The Wild Psychology of Elon Musk

There's green or red everywhere on the production line.

Modern Wisdom
#1082 - Eric Jorgenson - The Wild Psychology of Elon Musk

And it's like, if something is red, there's a problem, go there immediately.

Modern Wisdom
#1082 - Eric Jorgenson - The Wild Psychology of Elon Musk

There's a couple of versions of it.

Modern Wisdom
#1082 - Eric Jorgenson - The Wild Psychology of Elon Musk

Physically move yourself immediately where the product, you should see his like, if you track his private jet, it's like,

Modern Wisdom
#1082 - Eric Jorgenson - The Wild Psychology of Elon Musk

all over the world, constantly on the move.

Modern Wisdom
#1082 - Eric Jorgenson - The Wild Psychology of Elon Musk

And so it's not just like locally move yourself to wherever the problem is immediately.

Modern Wisdom
#1082 - Eric Jorgenson - The Wild Psychology of Elon Musk

Call the people, get them in the room, go there.

Modern Wisdom
#1082 - Eric Jorgenson - The Wild Psychology of Elon Musk

Like it's an underrated thing to be physically where the problem is.

Modern Wisdom
#1082 - Eric Jorgenson - The Wild Psychology of Elon Musk

And whatever the most important, this goes back to the kind of like the original multiplying things of like, whatever the most important thing to do is, whatever the limiting factor is, attack it immediately.

Modern Wisdom
#1082 - Eric Jorgenson - The Wild Psychology of Elon Musk

in the most effective way possible, which is usually going physically to where the problem is and seeing it for yourself directly or pulling in all the people that have a hand in it.

Modern Wisdom
#1082 - Eric Jorgenson - The Wild Psychology of Elon Musk

Do things in parallel.

Modern Wisdom
#1082 - Eric Jorgenson - The Wild Psychology of Elon Musk

Yeah, George and I were talking about this this morning because I think there's like conventionally good wisdom that is focus.

Modern Wisdom
#1082 - Eric Jorgenson - The Wild Psychology of Elon Musk

And this was one of the things I was surprised by.

Modern Wisdom
#1082 - Eric Jorgenson - The Wild Psychology of Elon Musk

Warren Buffett's the perfect quote to like explain this concept at a high level, which is like, you can't get a baby in one month by getting nine women pregnant.

Modern Wisdom
#1082 - Eric Jorgenson - The Wild Psychology of Elon Musk

Elon's tried.

Modern Wisdom
#1082 - Eric Jorgenson - The Wild Psychology of Elon Musk

So there are some things that there's an incompressible amount of time.