Elonogy (@ElonogyX) “Katherine Boyle on Elon Musk: “I think that Elon’s most important contribution t” — TopicDigg

Katherine Boyle on Elon Musk: “I think that Elon’s most important contribution to this country is training two generations of engineers over twenty years on how to work with their hands again. We had lost that capability in the US. The pendulum had moved so far to software that we didn’t have someone thinking from first principles of how to build as quickly as possible and build in new ways and capabilities that didn’t exist before. You don’t learn it at university, and you don’t learn it at existing primes, where they’re given a list of requirements and told, ‘Build it exactly as we say.’ Elon’s way of thinking is how do you engineer something for production and build for manufacturing. You don’t separate those capabilities. You want to make it as simply and cheaply and as quickly as possible so that you can mass-produce something. We’ve watched the diaspora out of SpaceX, with SpaceX talent taking that knowledge and building new capabilities. They’re taking everything they’ve learned from that methodical approach and bringing it to new capabilities that SpaceX isn’t working on. That is what you’re seeing with the diasporas out of companies like SpaceX and Anduril, they all know something they’ve learned from the previous generation of companies.”