Matthew MacDougall

To make a good team at Neuralink, we've tried to find people that are not afraid to defend their ideas passionately and occasionally strongly disagree with people that they're working with and have the best idea come out on top. It's not an easy balance, again, to refer back to the primate brain. It's not something that is inherently built into the primate brain to say,

To make a good team at Neuralink, we've tried to find people that are not afraid to defend their ideas passionately and occasionally strongly disagree with people that they're working with and have the best idea come out on top. It's not an easy balance, again, to refer back to the primate brain. It's not something that is inherently built into the primate brain to say,

To make a good team at Neuralink, we've tried to find people that are not afraid to defend their ideas passionately and occasionally strongly disagree with people that they're working with and have the best idea come out on top. It's not an easy balance, again, to refer back to the primate brain. It's not something that is inherently built into the primate brain to say,

I passionately put all my chips on this position and now I'm just going to walk away from it and admit you were right. You know, part of our brains tell us that that is a power loss. That is a loss of face, a loss of standing in the community. And now you're a Zeta chump because your idea got trounced. Yeah.

I passionately put all my chips on this position and now I'm just going to walk away from it and admit you were right. You know, part of our brains tell us that that is a power loss. That is a loss of face, a loss of standing in the community. And now you're a Zeta chump because your idea got trounced. Yeah.

I passionately put all my chips on this position and now I'm just going to walk away from it and admit you were right. You know, part of our brains tell us that that is a power loss. That is a loss of face, a loss of standing in the community. And now you're a Zeta chump because your idea got trounced. Yeah.

And you just have to recognize that that little voice in the back of your head is maladaptive and it's not helping the team win.

And you just have to recognize that that little voice in the back of your head is maladaptive and it's not helping the team win.

And you just have to recognize that that little voice in the back of your head is maladaptive and it's not helping the team win.

Yeah, I think working your ass off, working hard while functioning as a member of a team, getting a job done, that is incredibly difficult. Working incredibly long hours, being up all night, taking care of someone that you think probably won't survive no matter what you do. working hard to make people that you passionately dislike look good the next morning.

Yeah, I think working your ass off, working hard while functioning as a member of a team, getting a job done, that is incredibly difficult. Working incredibly long hours, being up all night, taking care of someone that you think probably won't survive no matter what you do. working hard to make people that you passionately dislike look good the next morning.

Yeah, I think working your ass off, working hard while functioning as a member of a team, getting a job done, that is incredibly difficult. Working incredibly long hours, being up all night, taking care of someone that you think probably won't survive no matter what you do. working hard to make people that you passionately dislike look good the next morning.

These folks were relentless in their pursuit of excellent neurosurgical technique, decade over decade. And I think we're well-recognized for that excellence, especially Marty Weiss, Steve Gianotta, Micah Puzo, they made huge contributions, not only to surgical technique, but they built training programs that trained dozens or hundreds of amazing neurosurgeons.

These folks were relentless in their pursuit of excellent neurosurgical technique, decade over decade. And I think we're well-recognized for that excellence, especially Marty Weiss, Steve Gianotta, Micah Puzo, they made huge contributions, not only to surgical technique, but they built training programs that trained dozens or hundreds of amazing neurosurgeons.

These folks were relentless in their pursuit of excellent neurosurgical technique, decade over decade. And I think we're well-recognized for that excellence, especially Marty Weiss, Steve Gianotta, Micah Puzo, they made huge contributions, not only to surgical technique, but they built training programs that trained dozens or hundreds of amazing neurosurgeons.

I was just lucky to kind of be in their wake.

I was just lucky to kind of be in their wake.

I was just lucky to kind of be in their wake.

Yeah. It's especially challenging when you with all respect to our elders, it doesn't hit so much when you're taking care of an 80 year old and something was going to get them pretty soon anyway. And so you lose a patient like that. And it was part of the natural course of what is expected of them in the coming years, regardless. Taking care of

Yeah. It's especially challenging when you with all respect to our elders, it doesn't hit so much when you're taking care of an 80 year old and something was going to get them pretty soon anyway. And so you lose a patient like that. And it was part of the natural course of what is expected of them in the coming years, regardless. Taking care of