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Kimbal Musk: observation

10 Mar 2024 Lex Fridman Podcast #417 – Kimbal Musk: The Art of Cooking, Tesla, SpaceX, Zip2, and Family

“If you look up for a second, you’re going to miss the perfect moment where you have to stop and get those eggs out of the pan because the eggs will keep cooking.”

— Kimbal Musk

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Speaker
Kimbal Musk
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observation
Recorded
10 Mar 2024
Publisher
Lex Fridman Podcast

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…Okay. So I will wake up and be held accountable by my kids to make scrambled eggs. So this happens every morning and I know all the steps, muscle memory level kind of steps, how well I know it, and then I’ll cook it. And it’s very meditative for me because you have to focus. So most scrambled eggs, soft scrambled egg recipes are 10, 15 minutes to get them to that perfect softness. And the recipe that I got from Chef Alain was something that you do in 90 seconds, but it requires total focus. If you look up for a second, you’re going to miss the perfect moment where you have to stop and get those eggs out of the pan because the eggs will keep cooking. And so it’s this meditation. And sometimes you hit it perfectly, but most times could have been a little softer, could have been a little firmer, could have been a little bit more salt, could have been a little bit of pepper. And so what’s really fun about the morning is my kids are kind of into it so we critique the eggs every morning. Do they have a rating system? We’re back to the spreadsheet.…

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