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# What I learned from Elon

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Chatting with SpaceX's engineer friend, according to him, I learned some of Elon Musk's habits of thinking (fragmented, constantly added)

- **Automatic**. Elon is a software company that tends to optimize the rocket manufacturing process with Internet experience, and SpaceX must have no one in any place where there is no one, and all the work that can be automated must be done automatically.

- **Not afraid of failure**. Elon believes that failure is a normal indicator, only failure can show that we are out of the comfort zone, no failure means that we are not trying new paths, but also to see the final results

- **Push to extreme**. no matter some components or rocket, Elon will push it to the limit when he thinks about it. If the production of a certain component from the current 100 to millions after the cost will not be exponentially reduced, if not Elon think that this direction from the beginning is wrong, not worth to do

- **Data-Based Decisions**. spaceX internal engineer culture is relatively strong, Elon requires everything to be able to quantify, all decisions need to have perfect data support

- **Manage risk**. In the rocket industry, some seemingly small risks can lead to the failure of the whole launch mission, so Elon emphasizes risk management, specifying which risks can be borne and which risks cannot be borne, enlarging the former and reducing the latter.

- **Break through the traditional thinking framework**, Elon emphasizes not to look at how to solve a problem from his own field, the best way is to see how others in similar fields deal with similar problems, and get inspiration and ideas from other dimensions.