Derek Thompson

You don't know whether the job to be done is to take away employees or to add them. I think if instead what Doge had done is come in and say, you know what, Elon Musk and a bunch of other people from Silicon Valley, one thing we take very seriously is the importance of scientific and technological progress.

You don't know whether the job to be done is to take away employees or to add them. I think if instead what Doge had done is come in and say, you know what, Elon Musk and a bunch of other people from Silicon Valley, one thing we take very seriously is the importance of scientific and technological progress.

Because if you look back over decades and centuries, what distinguishes our generation from every other generation in terms of its health and its power is science and technology. And we want to infuse government with a sense of science and technological progress.

Because if you look back over decades and centuries, what distinguishes our generation from every other generation in terms of its health and its power is science and technology. And we want to infuse government with a sense of science and technological progress.

Because if you look back over decades and centuries, what distinguishes our generation from every other generation in terms of its health and its power is science and technology. And we want to infuse government with a sense of science and technological progress.

And to that end, one thing we want to do is to have a smarter and more efficient FDA so that people can experience life-saving medicines.

And to that end, one thing we want to do is to have a smarter and more efficient FDA so that people can experience life-saving medicines.

And to that end, one thing we want to do is to have a smarter and more efficient FDA so that people can experience life-saving medicines.

I think what you would do is research the bottlenecks that exist to American science and pharmaceutical policy and say, we should hire more people at the FDA to accelerate drug approval, decide which drugs are to be rejected and which drugs are to get the FDA label. That is the opposite of the Doge approach. And this really, I think, puts a fine point to the problem of a Doge without goals.

I think what you would do is research the bottlenecks that exist to American science and pharmaceutical policy and say, we should hire more people at the FDA to accelerate drug approval, decide which drugs are to be rejected and which drugs are to get the FDA label. That is the opposite of the Doge approach. And this really, I think, puts a fine point to the problem of a Doge without goals.

I think what you would do is research the bottlenecks that exist to American science and pharmaceutical policy and say, we should hire more people at the FDA to accelerate drug approval, decide which drugs are to be rejected and which drugs are to get the FDA label. That is the opposite of the Doge approach. And this really, I think, puts a fine point to the problem of a Doge without goals.

When Elon takes over Tesla, when Elon is... at SpaceX, when Elon's at X, I would imagine, and you know this better than me because you know him, and maybe most importantly, for the purposes of this part of the conversation, you know the people who work for him. I'll bet if you ask the people who work under Elon at X, Tesla, SpaceX, they say, I know exactly what Elon wants.

When Elon takes over Tesla, when Elon is... at SpaceX, when Elon's at X, I would imagine, and you know this better than me because you know him, and maybe most importantly, for the purposes of this part of the conversation, you know the people who work for him. I'll bet if you ask the people who work under Elon at X, Tesla, SpaceX, they say, I know exactly what Elon wants.

When Elon takes over Tesla, when Elon is... at SpaceX, when Elon's at X, I would imagine, and you know this better than me because you know him, and maybe most importantly, for the purposes of this part of the conversation, you know the people who work for him. I'll bet if you ask the people who work under Elon at X, Tesla, SpaceX, they say, I know exactly what Elon wants.

This is his goal for the super heavy rocket. This is his goal in terms of humanoid robots. This is his goal in terms of profitability of Twitter. and the growth of our subscription business, and how we're going to integrate new features, there's probably a really clear mind meld. Right now, I have no sense that there's a mind meld.

This is his goal for the super heavy rocket. This is his goal in terms of humanoid robots. This is his goal in terms of profitability of Twitter. and the growth of our subscription business, and how we're going to integrate new features, there's probably a really clear mind meld. Right now, I have no sense that there's a mind meld.

This is his goal for the super heavy rocket. This is his goal in terms of humanoid robots. This is his goal in terms of profitability of Twitter. and the growth of our subscription business, and how we're going to integrate new features, there's probably a really clear mind meld. Right now, I have no sense that there's a mind meld.

And in fact, I have the exact opposite sense, that rather than an example of creative destruction, which would be a mitzvah of entrepreneurship, we have an act of destruction destruction. We have destruction for the sake of destruction. It's much cleaner to me from an interpretive standpoint to describe Doge as an ideological purge of progressivism

And in fact, I have the exact opposite sense, that rather than an example of creative destruction, which would be a mitzvah of entrepreneurship, we have an act of destruction destruction. We have destruction for the sake of destruction. It's much cleaner to me from an interpretive standpoint to describe Doge as an ideological purge of progressivism

And in fact, I have the exact opposite sense, that rather than an example of creative destruction, which would be a mitzvah of entrepreneurship, we have an act of destruction destruction. We have destruction for the sake of destruction. It's much cleaner to me from an interpretive standpoint to describe Doge as an ideological purge of progressivism