Elon Musk is beyond obsessed with reaching Mars. I feel bad for his employees
I'm happy Musk _is_ obsessed. The world would be a worse off place without SpaceX and Tesla, who both are what they are to a large extent because of him.
Elon Musk’s plan to build one Starship a week and settle Mars
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#22Earlier quoted context omitted.
They can always leave. I'd presume that many of them are on-board in the first place because they're engaged by the idea.
I suspect we have a few groups. Those who drank the kool-aid and liked it. Those who used to believe in it but after abuse are now stuck in an endless cycle where they have no time for job searches. And those that never drank the kool-aid and will leave after getting time on their resume. It takes a great mix of super smarts and super stupid to work there.
basically everyone who works on "space" projects drank a fucking gallon of post-apollo space koolaid.
all of the aerospace companies take wild advantage of it.
at least musk is actually doing something interesting with their obsession, and not just building bigger bombs.
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#23It's quite inspiring to see a real goal and drive towards it.
Purpose is so hard to come by now because we all don't know what we want. When we do know, we're constantly unsure about it.
Such a clear goal makes it easy to have greater purpose that you don't second guess.
This isn't a scheme to get rich, a zero sum political movement, or a narcissistic artistic endeavor. It's pretty unique there.
There's that whole danger of a cult of personality but the project is bearing fruit.
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#24This Musk quote from the article resonated with me: > There’s plenty of forgiveness if you pass me the buck. There is no forgiveness if you don’t.
Next week, Musks inbox is flooded with "Weld 28467 is looking slightly bubbly. It'll probably be okay, but wanted to pass the buck to you".
As with actually using an "open-door policy", that's probably a good way to wind up fired.
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#25Settle on Mars
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#26Humans are not biologically adapted to surviving on Mars, and for that reason, any settlement to Mars is bound to fail in the long term.
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#27I wonder how they handle differences in plans/knowledge/outlook between the 4 shifts. I can totally see the AM team working towards different quality standards or designs than the Evening team because they never talk to one another.
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#28Excerpt: "Just iterate, baby" "I’ve spoken with plenty of the earliest engineers who worked at SpaceX, and almost all of them have noted that Musk tackles the hardest engineering problems first. For Mars, there will be so many logistical things to make it all work, from power on the surface to scratching out a living to adapting to its extreme climate. But Musk believes that the initial, hardest step is building a re…
> for the extremely hard problem of getting a super-large vehicle out of Earth’s gravity well into orbit
Why does it need to be super-large? To simulate gravity?
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#29I don't know about the Starship a week but he definitely fulfils his hyperbolic bullshit per day quota. And it's mostly "our" fault, "we" let him getaway with so much shit ( from market manipulation to criminal workplace offences ) because he entertains our egos with the promise of getting all our problems solved ( which is ridiculous at so many levels ). OK let's pretend Elon builds one Starship a week, at which cos…
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#30I wonder how they handle differences in plans/knowledge/outlook between the 4 shifts. I can totally see the AM team working towards different quality standards or designs than the Evening team because they never talk to one another.
usually people change across shifts over time, you don't always work with the same people every time, so there would be a continuous sync up.