The length is 38:50. It’s for a somewhat more general audience; the Summit channel says “Summit is an ecosystem that exists to connect and nourish global makers. We are committed to fostering experiences that bring people together to explore, play, gather and grow … together.” and similar BOMFOG.

I think there’s nothing new for long-time SpaceX fans. He gave the “throw away the airplane on every flight” analogy. But I don’t feel that I wasted 40 minutes. There were several nice short SpaceX videos on various topics. He also went over Musk’s “algorithm”, which Musk had done with Tim Dodd The Everyday Astronaut.

First principles approach to technology (“the algorithm”)

  1. Make the requirements less dumb
  1. Delete the part or process step

Run steps 1 and 2 as many times as possible before going on to

  1. Optimize
  1. Accelerate. (You can always go faster than you thought.)
  1. Automate

Musk, in his interview with EA, had a better example with the battery cover on Tesla. Kiko had an anecdote about fairing recovery.

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    11 year ago

    I’m curious about the downvoting.