Jawwwn(@jawwwn_):.@elonmusk on why thinking from first principles is the best way to invent new things: “You boil things down to the most fundamental truths” and reason up from there. “You can’t say nobody wants a car because horses are great, we’re used to them, they can eat grass, and there’s lots of grass. And there’s no gasoline that people can buy

2026.05.26 17:31

.@elonmusk on why thinking from first principles is the best way to invent new things: “You boil things down to the most fundamental truths” and reason up from there. “You can’t say nobody wants a car because horses are great, we’re used to them, they can eat grass, and there’s lots of grass. And there’s no gasoline that people can buy—so people are never going to get cars.”

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2026.05.26 17:22

General Matter CEO @ScottNolan's biggest lessons from working as an early employee at SpaceX: "Pick the right thing to work on. Pick the problem no one else is working on, that really needs to be solved." "Lesson two is—clean slate. Start from scratch. Question everything."