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I've heard him say this in multiple interviews, so here it is for posterity. He shares these principles: 1. Seek out negative feedback. Ask your friends NOT
by undershirt 13y ago
I've heard him say this in multiple interviews, so here it is for posterity. He shares these principles:
1. Seek out negative feedback. Ask your friends NOT to tell you what they like about your product, but rather what they don't like. Underweight positive feedback, and overweight the negative.
2. Reason from first principles rather than by analogy. It's easier to compare a situation or a problem to something similar to it and be satisfied by the analogy. It's much harder to actually think and reason about it logically as you would a physics problem.
- mailshanx 13y agoHave an upvote for sharing this!:). I've watched several of Musk's interviews, and he does share these principles. It has also struck a chord with me.
- davej 13y agoThe second principle is something that Larry Page said at the Google IO keynote earlier in the week too. He was making reference to the fact that from a purely physical perspective, the raw material cost of a smartphone is about $0.50 - $1.
- wavesounds 13y agoI saw this and I think he got it from Elon actually (just replace smartphone with rocket), I've heard Elon mentions these things a lot in interviews.
- jonahx 13y agoPoint 1. is easy enough to act on, but point 2 is less clear. I'd love it if you could summarize a couple examples of it in practice.
- presty 13y agohttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_principle http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_principle