Elon Musk: recommendation

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…Are you still able to get into details as much as you want? Would your companies be more successful if they were smaller? How do you think about that? Because I have a fixed amount of time in the day, my time is necessarily diluted as things grow and as the span of activity increases. It’s impossible for me to actually be a micromanager because that would imply I have some thousands of hours per day. It is a logical impossibility for me to micromanage things. Now, there are times when I will drill down into a specific issue because that specific issue is the limiting factor on the progress of the company. The reason for drilling into some very detailed item is because it is the limiting factor. It’s not arbitrarily drilling into tiny things. From a time standpoint, it is physically impossible for me to arbitrarily go into tiny things that don’t matter. That would result in failure. But sometimes the tiny things are decisive in victory. Famously, you switched the Starship design from composites to steel.…

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