Elon Musk sent every Tesla employee a memo that took authority away from their managers and handed it to them.
He never asks for more hours. Every rule moves a decision closer to the person doing the work.
Musk: “Excessive meetings are the blight of big companies and almost always get worse over time.”
Companies have a role for everyone who creates process and no role for anyone who removes it. Meetings and approval chains survive because removing them was never anyone’s job.
Musk: “Walk out of a meeting or drop off a call as soon as it is obvious you aren’t adding value.”
Attendance has always been treated as proof of commitment. He made it worthless, and contribution became the only thing that counts in the room.
Musk: “It is not rude to leave, it is rude to make someone stay and waste their time.”
Ordinary manners protect whoever called the meeting. He moved that protection to everyone else sitting quietly with real work waiting on them.
Musk: “Don’t use acronyms or nonsense words for objects, software, or processes at Tesla. Anything that requires an explanation inhibits communication.”
Internal vocabulary converts knowledge into status and charges every newcomer a fee to participate.
A company that speaks plainly can absorb talent at full speed.
Musk: “Communication should travel via the shortest path necessary to get the job done, not through the chain of command.”
Most good ideas die in transit, three levels below anyone with the power to act on them.
Musk: “Any manager who attempts to enforce chain of command communication will soon find themselves working elsewhere.”
The only threat in the entire memo. A manager who insists on being routed through is buying his own relevance with everyone else’s time. Musk put a price on it.
Musk: “Always pick common sense as your guide. If following a company rule is obviously ridiculous in a particular situation, the rule should change.”
Following a bad rule normally shields you. Exercising judgment exposes you.
He flipped which one carries the risk, and every rule now has to earn its place against the person applying it.
Every institution drifts toward protecting its own comfort. The ones that keep building are held together by people who rewrite the rules back down to something a single person can act on.
Nothing on that list requires a budget, a headcount, or a title.
You can run the entire memo from wherever you are sitting right now. Most people never test it and never learn it was permitted the whole time.
Elon Musk sent every Tesla employee a memo that took authority away from their managers and handed it to them.
He never asks for more hours. Every rule moves a decision closer to the person doing the work.
Musk: “Excessive meetings are the blight of big companies and almost always get worse over time.”
Companies have a role for everyone who creates process and no role for anyone who removes it. Meetings and approval chains survive because removing them was never anyone’s job.
Musk: “Walk out of a meeting or drop off a call as soon as it is obvious you aren’t adding value.”
Attendance has always been treated as proof of commitment. He made it worthless, and contribution became the only thing that counts in the room.
Musk: “It is not rude to leave, it is rude to make someone stay and waste their time.”
Ordinary manners protect whoever called the meeting. He moved that protection to everyone else sitting quietly with real work waiting on them.
Musk: “Don’t use acronyms or nonsense words for objects, software, or processes at Tesla. Anything that requires an explanation inhibits communication.”
Internal vocabulary converts knowledge into status and charges every newcomer a fee to participate.
A company that speaks plainly can absorb talent at full speed.
Musk: “Communication should travel via the shortest path necessary to get the job done, not through the chain of command.”
Most good ideas die in transit, three levels below anyone with the power to act on them.
Musk: “Any manager who attempts to enforce chain of command communication will soon find themselves working elsewhere.”
The only threat in the entire memo. A manager who insists on being routed through is buying his own relevance with everyone else’s time. Musk put a price on it.
Musk: “Always pick common sense as your guide. If following a company rule is obviously ridiculous in a particular situation, the rule should change.”
Following a bad rule normally shields you. Exercising judgment exposes you.
He flipped which one carries the risk, and every rule now has to earn its place against the person applying it.
Every institution drifts toward protecting its own comfort. The ones that keep building are held together by people who rewrite the rules back down to something a single person can act on.
Nothing on that list requires a budget, a headcount, or a title.
You can run the entire memo from wherever you are sitting right now. Most people never test it and never learn it was permitted the whole time.
Six days on the Tour du Mont Blanc — about 170 km and 10,000 m of climbing.
My watch had decided I was in poor shape by day 5. It was right that something had changed, and had no idea what.
I'm still recalibrating 🫠
#TMB
In these cosmic captures, the Lion Nebula is the mane attraction 🦁
A dying star casts off its outer layers to create this intricate structure of gas and dust. Scientists think that it will disperse in about 10,000 years... which is very short, in astronomical terms. ⬇️
To think that we aren't just going "to the Moon," but rather traveling to meet it at an exact point in space... changes everything.
It all comes down to orbital mechanics: arriving at the precise location, at the precise moment.
One tiny error... and it simply doesn't happen
Canada is a nation of explorers, builders, and innovators. Today Colonel Jeremy Hansen carries that legacy forward as he becomes first Canadian to venture to the Moon.
در اولین روز پس از مرگِ خفتبارِ آدمکشِ بزرگ در نیمهماراتنی در غرب تورنتو شرکت کردم.
به یاد همسر عزیزم پریسا که به دست سپاه پاسداران و علی خامنهای کشته شد، به یاد دوستِ دادخواهم محسن که رفت و مرگِ خامنهای را ندید، به یاد پرواز پیاس۷۵۲، به یاد جوانانِ شجاعِ دیماه و همهی کسانی که به دست تروریستهای سپاه پاسداران کشته شدند.
#دادخواهی
Internet is the only way to save lives and spread news and safety in Iran. The nazi regime in Iran is using the same digital black out technique to spread fear between innocent people of Iran! #IranBlackout#IranWar
حکومتی که وسط جنگ، وقتی همه نگران هماند و تنها راه اطلاع از اخطارهای تخلیه اینترنت است، راههای ارتباطی را قطع میکند و شهروندهای وحشتزده را در تاریکی مطلق نگه میدارد، دشمن اصلی ملتاش است.
اگر خارج از ایران هستید، به جای ما به این خاموشی اعتراض کنید. داریم خفه میشویم.
@JZarif False. You and the likes of you in a Nazi regime caused this war for Iranian people. Surrender and stop with the lies and let Iranian people take their destiny to a ballot box. They want o live free #IranRevolution2026
@badralbusaidi Shame on you for smirking at human rights questions and turning a blind eye on 32,000 innocent lives lost! If you are not speaking up and remaining silent, you are an accomplice to this nazi regime and the terrorist IRGC! #IranMassacre
@FaceTheNation Shame on the Omani Foriegn Minister for smirking at human rights! Bottom line: "I don't care about 32,000 innocent people being murdered by a nazi regime in my region!" This sets a bad precedent 😞 #IranMassacre
@SecRubio Thanks Secretary Rubio for shedding light on this cruel and antiquated practice done by a nazi regime! We should free Iran and end the massacre #IranRevoIution2026#IranMassacre