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I used to watch a show called Connections. Things can exist in other fields that cross over and make other fields absolutely ignite with interesting possibilit
by sumtechguy 2y ago
I used to watch a show called Connections. Things can exist in other fields that cross over and make other fields absolutely ignite with interesting possibilities.
SpaceX is taking existing tech and rebuilding it up from ground up principles. It is the method they are applying to all of his businesses. Get something working. Then go back and throw everything out until it stops working. Then put that thing back. Then throw out more. The idea is if you still work perfectly fine without something you did not need it. Following the optimization method of 'the most optimal thing is the thing that is not there.' It is what took Tesla from a bespoke 1-5 cars per year company to the capability to build thousands per week. It is a brutal painful process that works.
- TheOtherHobbes 2y agoIt's increasingly debatable that the process actually does work.
- immibis 2y agoThe idea you are specifying is called Muntzing: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muntzing https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muntzing - named after a CEO who supposedly made the poorest TVs on the market, but also the cheapest. Which left him with lots of money to spend on marketing those poor-quality TVs to people who they would not work for, who had to pay for their own return shipping.
- coliveira 2y agoThe capability of building thousands of cars per week is quite old. You may be referring to EVs, but even in that category we have BYD that is knocking competitors out the park.