This isn’t a bad algorithm but it is vulnerable to being turned into religious dogma, and works at the expense of sustainable developments of humans in the long term. You’ll pay for the 5y gains over 10 and 15.

This isn’t a bad algorithm but it is vulnerable to being turned into religious dogma, and works at the expense of sustainable developments of humans in the long term. You’ll pay for the 5y gains over 10 and 15. https://x.com/dhh/status/1705737715827064949?s=61&t=Z7ogL5oXQlE-zjAQ_mFVBw

Delver at contraptions.venkateshrao.com, running summerofprotocols.com, host of /gloom ☀️

Musk’s big blindspot is that humans have first principles too, that need to be discovered and worked with. Humans are the most complex part of any organization and treating them as the long-term enemy of a glorious state of human-free automation is an expensive strategy.

The deleting part is good, though possible to overdo as at twitter. Like Taleb’s via negativa principle. But questioning everyone, being suspicious of camaraderie, and mechanisms like skip-level meetings all undermine longer term capability development. You’ll burn out and hemorrhage talent.

I'd be more than surprised if Musk does Skip-level meetings regularly and actually adheres to "never ask your troops to do something you're not willing to do". These are consistent with his self-image but probably untrue in the practical sense.