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Making Things Happen

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So I want to pass along this skill that I think I have. Elon has been described as having the eye of sauron on a particular project, where the bottlenecks just disappear away when he pays attention to them. I've felt a similar thing -- and I think that a bottleneck on this happening is just executive time, and by chance / luck, I've got a lot of the executive time at CAIS. It's pretty easy actually. You ask, how long is this going to take. Why. What are the key bottlenecks. Why can't they be solved with this 80-20. Ignore all the rules that say it must go slower. Figure whether you can throw money / time at the problem, and then make it go faster. Be very suspicious of things that look like planning meetings or "all we need is to hire someone to do that" or any other things that does not solve the exact thing. Rinse and repeat for all of the teams. On a meta-level, zoom out and ask, what is on the critical path, the set of things that need to get correct for the final goal to be achiev

Making Things Happen So I want to pass along this skill that I think I have. Elon has been described as having the eye of sauron on a particular project, where the bottlenecks just disappear away when he pays attention to them. I've felt a similar thing -- and I think that a bottleneck on this happening is just executive time, and by chance / luck, I've got a lot of the executive time at CAIS. It's pretty easy actually. You ask, how long is this going to take. Why. What are the key bottlenecks. Why can't they be solved with this 80-20. Ignore all the rules that say it must go slower. Figure wh

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