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here's elon musk on the matter: http://www.simplethingcalledlife.com/2015/elon-musk-usc-success-speech/ http://www.simplethingcalledlife.com/2015/elon-musk-usc
by kashkhan 11y ago
here's elon musk on the matter:
http://www.simplethingcalledlife.com/2015/elon-musk-usc-success-speech/ http://www.simplethingcalledlife.com/2015/elon-musk-usc-succ...
> And if you do the simple math, say that someone else is working 50 hours and you’re working 100, you’ll get twice as much done in the course of a year as the other company.” – Elon Musk
Elon is a typical SV guy right?
- wwweston 11y agoElon is probably quite wrong if he actually expects a consistent linear relationship between hours in and output. It does seem as if he's very smart and able to lead significant enterprises to success, however. There might be two takeaways here: 1) Even smart/successful people may believe things that are wrong. 2) The point of Musk's statement may be something other than to communicate an accurate model of output vs labor.
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- tomjen3 11y agoHe also expects employees not to be there for the birth of their children (http://www.autoblog.com/2015/05/11/elon-musk-scolded-employee-for-missing-work-to-see-birth-of-chil/ http://www.autoblog.com/2015/05/11/elon-musk-scolded-employe...) with the money quote being "you need to find out where your priorities lie.
- rwallace 11y agoAh, good find. Bookmarking this for next time I need an example of a smart person believing something incredibly stupid.