Tesla Gigafactory: machine building machines, on first principles

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"CEO Elon Musk remarked that he and his team are working on ways to improve the efficiency of its current and any future factories by a factor of 10 to 100 times. By focusing on “physics-first principles,” Musk said, he is convinced the production capacity can be increased exponentially if they focus on “building the machines that build the machine”.

First Principles: Elon Musk on Thinking for Yourself

"In a fantastic interview with Kevin Rose, Musk explains one of the core philosophies that has guided him during his bold entrepreneurial ventures:

“I think it is important to reason from first principles rather than by analogy. The normal way we conduct our lives is we reason by analogy. [When reasoning by analogy] we are doing this because it’s like something else that was done or it is like what other people are doing — slight iterations on a theme.

First principles is kind of a physics way of looking at the world. You boil things down to the most fundamental truths and say, “What are we sure is true?”… and then reason up from there."