Status
Decision Making
Alternative Phrasing
Source
Elon Musk
What is the most efficient way to solve a problem if you started from scratch? If you look past humanity’s attempts to solve it, what is the best approach if you reasoned from its fundamental principles?
What system underlies this project? Is it a relationship, a business, a product, or something else with multiple components relying on each other? Is this system already efficient? If not, what are the ironclad principles underlying it? Can I start over from those principles to identify a remarkably better way to design this system?