Michael Göthe

INSIGHT: What working for Elon is actually like.

@paramendra @EricJorgenson @elonmusk Another book! Thanks for the suggestion. I will check it out.

@teamcoach @EricJorgenson @elonmusk Musk’s Management a.co/d/g6J1xiu My book has an audio version also. And came last year.

🚨📕 THE BOOK OF ELON IS NOW LIVE!!! 🎉🚀 This is the book we WISHED @elonmusk would write… “All of Elon's most useful ideas, in his own words.” Learn directly from the world’s greatest entrepreneur, like you’re sitting across from him at dinner. It took FIVE YEARS to make this for you. Because it's built from hundreds and hundreds of Elon's public appearances. I went through 3,000,000+ words to collect the most useful and timeless ideas. The final book is ~50,000 words. Every word is USEFUL. (This is what I do. My first book, The Almanack of Naval Ravikant, is one of the top 100 most highlighted books of all time on Kindle.) Then, I spent $50,000+ on editing and design so it looks and feels beautiful. Then… > Foreword by @naval. > Visuals by @jackbutcher. > Blurb from @mrbeast. > Published by @scribemediaco. > And yes, approval on this idea from Elon himself, thanks to @samteller. I went Maximum Effort to make this an all-timer. We got 10/10 on reviews from early readers, then worked on it for ANOTHER YEAR. Why so much effort? My mission is to create One Million Musks. For a generation to lift our gaze and build, so our grandchildren live in a world beyond our wildest dreams. I’m an independent author. I don’t get an advance. I risk my own time and money to make these books. Then we give away millions of them. Digital versions are free. I believe this book can benefit every human, and if you can’t pay five bucks for it, I want to personally gift it to you. Because I know it is useful. Useful how? You may be seeking purpose, a mission worthy of your life’s effort. You may have a clear purpose and seek the tools for success. You will find both in this book. Get the benefits of Elon’s entire life of hard-won lessons in a five-hour, easy read. (I checked, it’s a 5th-grade reading level.) You’ll feel personally mentored by the greatest entrepreneur in history. Click below to buy it now on Amazon, Audible, or directly from me. Amazon: amzn.to/47avSuh Audible: lnkd.in/gi_7HrFP Me: lnkd.in/gS2xWUWH If you’re not sure it’s worth $4.99 yet, just start reading the free version. PLEASE take 6 seconds to Like, Bookmark, and Repost. Even better: send this to your friends, team, or Group Chats! I guarantee this book will improve their lives. Spread the word! Every little thing helps. Your support spreads good ideas around the world, helping people and making the future better for everyone. Thank you! Forward. Together.

@davidsenra @EricJorgenson @elonmusk Thanks. Looking forward to the book and the interview. I can also really recommend The Musk Way by @alsahuquillo

My conversation with @EricJorgenson, author of The Book of Elon (@elonmusk). 0:00 Book Reveal 0:39 Build Useful Things 2:19 Engineering Talent Edge 4:26 Wired for War 6:47 Tip of the Spear 8:47 Burn the Boats 13:13 Facing Fear 15:16 Origin Story Myths 18:19 Know Business A to Z 22:17 Simplify and Fail Fast 25:35 Reality and Physics 28:18 The Algorithm Begins 30:34 Delete and Simplify 34:25 Starlink War Room 36:52 Repetition as OS 38:18 Step Three Simplify Optimize 38:43 Question Every Requirement 39:13 Tesla Battery Pack Delete 40:43 Repetition Installs Ideas 42:02 Step Four Accelerate 43:26 Design Org for Speed 46:06 Step Five Automate 46:29 Control and Clean Sheet 48:54 Vertical Integration and Costs 50:47 SpaceX Incentives and Mars 57:11 Frontier Unlocks Starlink 1:00:26 Time as True Currency 1:03:58 Speed Triage and Bottlenecks 1:10:11 Internalized Responsibility 1:12:56 Avoid Serialized Dependencies 1:14:31 Aligning the Team 1:15:07 Time Is the Constraint 1:16:00 One Metric Focus 1:18:03 Directional Predictions 1:19:06 We Must Make Stuff 1:25:39 Manufacturing as Moat 1:26:23 Speed and Direct to Customer 1:28:41 SpaceX Feasibility Study 1:33:07 Edge of Sanity Leadership 1:37:10 Bottlenecks and Integration 1:40:01 Design and Simplify 1:45:15 Catch the Rocket 1:48:14 Capitalism and Closing Includes paid partnerships.

@r0ck3t23 Nice summary of how Elon operates

Jensen Huang just reverse-engineered why Elon Musk operates at a speed no one on the planet can match. Three traits. The first is deletion. Huang: “He has the ability to question everything to the point where everything’s down to its minimal amount.” Most engineers solve problems by adding. Musk solves them by subtracting. Every part. Every process. Every assumption that survived because no one had the nerve to kill it. He picks it up. Asks if it’s load-bearing. If the answer is anything less than absolutely, it is gone. Not simplified. Not optimized. Removed. What survives is the skeleton. The bare physics of the problem. Nothing between intent and execution. Huang said it plainly. As minimalist as you could possibly imagine. And he does it at system scale. Not at a product level. Not at a department level. Across entire companies. Entire industries. Entire supply chains. He strips a rocket the same way he strips a meeting. Down to the load-bearing walls and nothing else. The second is presence. Huang: “He is present at the point of action. If there’s a problem, he’ll just go there and show me the problem.” Not a Slack message. Not a report filtered through four layers of people who weren’t there when it broke. He walks to the failure. Stands over it. Puts his hands on it. Most executives have never seen the actual problem their company is trying to solve. They have seen slides about it. Read summaries of it. Formed opinions about it in rooms that are nowhere near it. Musk stands over the broken hardware and does not leave until it works. That collapses the distance that buries most organizations. The gap between something breaking and the person with authority to fix it actually understanding what broke. In most companies, that gap is weeks. For Musk, it is hours. The third is the one that bends everyone around him. Huang: “When you act personally with so much urgency, it causes everybody else to act with urgency.” Every supplier has a hundred customers. Every vendor has a dozen priorities. Every manufacturer has a backlog stretching months into the future. Musk makes himself the top of every single one of those lists. Not by demanding it. By demonstrating it. When the CEO shows up at your facility at midnight. When he is moving faster than your own internal team. When his timeline makes yours look like a suggestion. You do not put him in the queue. You rearrange the queue around him. Huang watched this up close. Huang: “He does that by demonstrating.” Not by asking. Not by negotiating. Not by leveraging a contract clause. By moving so fast that everyone else’s normal pace feels like standing still. Three traits. Strip everything down. Show up at the failure. Move so fast the world rearranges around you. That is not a management philosophy. That is why one man runs six companies while entire boards cannot keep one moving.

@Tesla Hope I am not too far off... Super pumped for this. x.com/rant_zine/stat…

Wow. Most ambitious and inspirational goal from any CEO ever. Elon thinking bigger than ever.

@BuschEbba Bra jobbat 👍

Svensk framgång i Bryssel! Regeringen vinner gehör från Europeiska rådet som stödjer Sveriges linje om flaskhalsintäkter. Sent igår kväll blev det klart att slutsatserna från Europeiska rådet stödjer vår linje att: 1. svenska pengar stannar i Sverige, och 2. en större flexibilitet i hur flaskhalsintäkterna kan användas. Det är ett styrkebesked för Sveriges goda samarbete, samt viktig signal att andra länder står med oss. Vi har ställt upp med tjänstemän, ambassadör, statssekreterare, jag själv som energiminister och till slut även med statsminister. På ren svenska: Viktig, tung delseger men inte klart. sverigesradio.se/play/artikel/9…

Read the full book review here teamcoach.se/what-tesla-and…

I wrote a blog post about the excellent book on @elonmusk "The Musk Way" by @alsahuquillo. What Tesla and SpaceX Can Teach Us About How We Build Highly recommended reading. Link in comments.

Hey @BuschEbba, why do you as the Swedish Vice Minister and Energy Minister, allow the Social Democrats to block 18 new Tesla Supercharger locations to be connected to the grid? Tesla has been one of the most important players to electrifying the vehicle fleet in Sweden 🇸🇪 Why should we vote for you in this year's election if you and your colleague @andreas_carlson can't stop this madness?

@MarkDenneyPhoto @NikonUSA Love it. The light in winter is magical in Lofoten.

I’ve photographed this location in Norway many times, but I’ve never seen it come together quite like this!

Yes.

@jordymaui Thanks. Great advice. I was just wondering why my Claude dashboard showed almost not cost and still I had to buy more tokens 😅

Exciting and worrying times. Most people have no clue of the accelerating change happening now. Matt compares it to when the pandemic hit in early 2020. It’s not just AI but the impact on our society. Read the article.

@DanLucSE @beckmansasikter @EllevioAB Konstig generalisering om elbilar. Körde till Karlstad i minus 4 grader med Tesla MY. Drog 180Wh/km. Laddkostnad 4,7kr/kWh på hemvägen.

Körde precis Stockholm-Göteborg T/R. 4st laddningar a 6,40/kW med en snittförbrukning på 3kW/milen blev det ca 300kW * 6,40... Typ 2000:- Nästan dubbelt upp mot att köra med en SUV på diesel eller bensin, dessutom tog varje sträcka ca 6 tim mot annars 4,5. Elbil fungerar om man kör korta sträckor och kan ladda hemma, annars är det en förlustaffär redan vid köp och sedan för varje laddtillfälle.

Att ladda min elbil i stugan i Hälsingland hos ⁦@EllevioAB⁩ är också mycket dyrt så jag tar numera vår hybridbil dit numera. Systemet fungerar inte helt enkelt! Straffavgiften för att ladda elbilen i fjällstugan: 2 200 kronor dn.se/ekonomi/straff…

@AlexTran677026 Best sketch ever 😂

Still BRILLIANT even after 50 years!!!👏 Monty Python’s Life of Brian is honestly decades ahead of its time.

@BLKMDL3 Really impressive. Thanks for sharing. Makes me want to try track mode.

Impressive the amount of improvements SpaceX can get into each iteration of Starship.

I cannot believe how far this organization is willing to go. There’s only one word for this: pure bullying of a company that is wanting the best for the planet, and therefore also for the people living in Sweden. When will this come to an end, when can the Swedes finally start enjoying all good @Tesla has to offer…. Thanks again to all employees working with Tesla in this country for staying strong and not letting these things take you off guard. @Tesla_Calle @NicklasNilsso14 @teslaeurope teslarati.com/swedish-unions…