Jorgenson: Benchmarking against industry best practice yields only incremental gains
Eric Jorgenson · How Elon Musk Solves Problems | Eric Jorgenson · Jun 17, 2026 · at 40:01
Author Eric Jorgenson explains Elon Musk's first-principles engineering framework during a discussion with host Codie Sanchez.
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“When I hear, well, best practice is X, I'm like, oh, we're already lost. Like we're starting from a bad place because only incremental improvements are going to come from like, well, how do we do it today? Where he starts with is like, what is the theoretically maximum, most efficient, most effective, like perfect thing now? Show me your excuses for not getting closer to that.”
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