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[Jaynit @jaynitx]

Marc Andreessen went on Chris Williamson's podcast and broke down exactly how Elon Musk runs multiple companies at once

No other CEO on Earth does this:

1. Every week, Musk shows up at each of his companies, identifies the single biggest problem that company is having that week, and fixes it. Then he does that for 52 weeks in a row. At the end of the year, each company has solved its 52 biggest problems. Meanwhile, most large companies are still having the planning meeting for the pre-planning meeting for the board presentation with the compliance review and the legal review attached.

2. This is not a new operating method. It is actually how the great industrialists of the late 1800s and early 1900s ran their companies. Henry Ford, Andrew Carnegie, Thomas Watson, who built IBM. Total devotion from the leader to fully and deeply understand what the company does, be in the trenches, talk directly to the people doing the work, and be the lead problem solver in the organization. Andreessen says he is not aware of another current CEO who operates this way.

3. The framework Musk uses is the bottleneck. In any manufacturing chain, there is always one thing holding everything up. Sometimes it is raw materials at the start. Sometimes it is warehousing at the end. Sometimes it is in the middle. The job is to find it and remove it. Musk has universalized this concept across every company he runs. In any given week, there is one main bottleneck. He micromanages the solution to that one thing and delegates almost everything else.

4. Musk delegates almost everything. Andreessen is clear about this. He is not involved in most of what his companies are doing. He is involved in the one thing that is the biggest problem right now. Once that is fixed, he moves to the next biggest problem. Everything else by definition, is running better than the bottleneck, so it does not need him.

5. When Musk identifies the bottleneck, he goes directly to the engineer who actually understands it. not the VP of engineering, not the director, not the manager. The individual contributor who has the actual technical knowledge. He sits in the room with that person and fixes the problem alongside them. He does not ask for a report to be reviewed in three weeks. he shows up at the keyboard or on the manufacturing line and works through it overnight if necessary.

6. This is why technical people who work for Musk say it was the best experience of their lives. Andreessen's framing: if you are stuck on a problem you cannot solve, Elon Musk is going to show up in his Gulfstream, sit with you in front of the keyboard, and help you figure it out. For an engineer who genuinely cares about the work, that is an almost incomprehensible level of support from the CEO of the company.

7. Business school teaches the opposite of this: management as a generic skill applicable to any industry. Soup company or a rocket company, the management principles are the same. process, balance sheet, meeting schedules, compliance, executive motivation, interpersonal conflict resolution. Andreessen says those skills are useful in many contexts. They just give you nothing; you need to do what Musk does. And Musk pushes as far as he can away from all of that so he can spend all of his time doing the things only he can do.

[JT @ZwindoShop]

@thought_bug_ 5+ years of videos. Drives me nuts.

[JT @ZwindoShop]

@DavidSvendsen @sweatystartup Nick owns storage units. 😂
But yes, you're right. Super wasteful.

[Louis Gleeson @aigleeson]

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Now I work just 60 minutes a day.

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Great reply from a 30-year expert:

[JT @ZwindoShop]

@clownworld Skater's dream

[JT @ZwindoShop]

@libsoftiktok Who is in charge of lighting @ NPR? 😂

[JT @ZwindoShop]

@Jongmailcom5 Is your account still active?

[JT @ZwindoShop]

@elonmusk Who's kids are talking in the background? 😂

[JT @ZwindoShop]

@elonmusk show some love to this lil entrepreneur.

[JT @ZwindoShop]

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[hoe_math = PsychoMath @ItIsHoeMath]

How to identify adult children:

They believe that "levels of morality" are "levels of niceness."

What are levels of morality?

I talk a lot about the AQAL (Ken Wilber) map of consciousness, which divides human development into stages.

In my recent video, "CRISIS," I explain that too many Western men are still stuck at the "good boy" level of Kohlberg's morality hierarchy (insufficient for an adult man) because they are trying to imitate women, who are out of control with entitlement.

(Women, on average, develop to Kohlberg's stage 3 by adulthood, men to stage 4. The reasons for this are complex, but likely mostly due to life experience.)

What is the "good boy" level?

I often speak harshly about bad things happening in our world. I use insulting words and I talk down to people. I'm exhausted with and disgusted by our degenerate, childish culture.

Because of this, I am often accused of "not understanding my own level system" (it's not mine, It's Wilber's, I just made it easier to read).

People will sometimes actually tell me: "you do not understand one of the main things that you teach people as well as I do because you are not nice, and if you were truly thinking at a high level, you'd be nicer."

(I've studied the system for 15 years and these people heard about it yesterday - through me!)

Do you hear the message they're sending? "Levels of morality are levels of niceness. Higher development means more nicer until you are the most nicest, which is the highest, like Jesus, who said "give people from strange lands more welfare forever, especially if they kill you."

That's what the "good boy" level sounds like, because it has not grown up enough to contend with a world where being nice doesn't work. This is why I think women do not grow to stage 4 on average - most of them can be "nice" forever and it works for them.

And so far, being "nice" has worked for Western men of the last few generations, or at least they think it has.

When people face actual problems (rather than emotional arguments between people who live in the same safe, rich culture), they begin to understand that playing nice and being fair is a really bad strategy to use on people who don't want to be nice back, which is increasingly a higher proportion of the people you'll meet.

Whenever you hear language like this (just be nice or you're bad), especially coming from a man, you are dealing with a tall child.

This is someone who does not understand how life works outside of a kindergarten-like context, where the greatest moral question is how to share snacks and blocks. These are people who have never had to imagine where the snacks come from, or care about how they got here.

I don't know what to do with these people. I know what would make them grow up (living in a situation where the only choices are to defend your boundaries or lose big), but I don't know how to make them do that.

Why aren't higher levels nicer?

Well, they can be. And they can be less nice. Or completely detached.

Development doesn't work like that. It's not just getting MORE of a quality. Some people seem to think it's like a video game stat, where level 4 morals are medium niceness and level 5 are medium-high niceness. In reality, level 4 morality is fixed and tradition-based, level 5 is flexible and context-based, and level 6 is individual and experience-based.

Development is a total transformation in the way that you understand the world. At level 4, "The Bible says it, that settles it." At level 6, "I need to find my own path." Development is complexity, and more complexity doesn't deliver linear results. In fact, it often causes enormous problems, as I often point out. If "The Bible says it," and it works, that's good. If "I need to find my own path" and you end up on heroin in a dumpster, then maybe what you need is The Bible.

At the "self-interest" level (Kohlberg 2), morality is "whatever gets me what I want." There's no recognition of the needs of others, and it gets ugly. Most adults live at this level at all times, sadly enough. This can be seen in cultures that don't wait in lines, which often causes culture shock in those that do. Waiting in line is a level 4 moral development. "I could push past others, but if we all did that, life would be hell." But from the self-interest perspective, "if I don't cut in line, everyone will cut in front of me first."

After that, the "good boy" level (Kohlberg 3) is "whatever makes people like me so that we all get along and I fit in and get approval." (You can see how the average adult woman would stop at this level, and why.)

And that is "more nice" than the previous level. So anyone who stops there, when they hear about "higher levels," will think of each level as another step higher in niceness, since "that's the last step I took, so why wouldn't it be the next one, too?

But then comes "law and order" morals (Kohlberg 4), which is "you gotta do what you gotta do, and you have to follow the rules, or else."

See how that's less nice? Because it's mean to people who aren't following the rules, which is also mean? But it also results in a much better world? Because it involves being not nice to people who are harmful, instead of giving them more welfare and statues?

"Good boy" (Kohlberg 3) morals sees people cutting in line (Kohlberg 2) and says "we need to be nice to this person who obviously has greater need! Look at me, everyone! I'm so gracious! Value me!"

"Law and order" (Kohlberg 4) morals says "back of the line or else," and if there's a fight, then that's "what you gotta do."

When you get all the way to the top, the 'principles' level, you often get beliefs that sound not very nice at all, like bringing back the death penalty for serious criminals.

"Getting rid of the worst 1% of a society's men every few years improves that society dramatically without losing anything of value." That's a principled moral that is super duper not nice at all to unfixable criminals, but fits within the moral structure of a principled thinker.

"Good boys" (and girls) who are stuck on a childish or teenage level of morality believe that we can fix the world by being nice. This is a belief system that is designed to make them sound nice so that they'll be accepted, but it's not functional in the real world. "Let everyone cut in line as long as I am seen as being nice for letting it happen."

Law and order morals have a similar problem. Once you get to that level, you start thinking "more moral means more law and order," and that comes with its own set of problems. But we don't need to worry about that one quite yet!

Don't let the "good" boys and girls in your life get away with acting holier-than-thou for enabling evil by being nice to it. Make them grow up. How? I don't know. Maybe bus the evil to their neighborhoods.

[Leonarda Jonie @Leonardaisfunny]

White guys imitating Indians making street food.
This is the funniest shit I’ve seen all year.
Ty to whoever made this.

[Coinbase 🛡️ @coinbase]

$100K.
11 years later.
@IsaacMiller

[JT @ZwindoShop]

@ModernVirility Check your post for a typo on the push phase.

[ManOfSteel⚔️💯 @ManOfStxxx]

THE 25 RULES FOR HEALTHY RELATIONSHIPS:

1. Your girlfriend isn’t your friend (only a few will understand this).

2. Choose the woman who loves you over the one you love.

3. Keep improving yourself.

[JT @ZwindoShop]

@GuyDealership @X WTB - Ford F150 - Iconic Silver, 4WD, 502a, under 36k miles.

[Alex Becker 🍊🏆🥇 @ZssBecker]

Ive gone from six figures to 7 to 8 to 9. My 2 cents.

After you have a nice place, bills paid and a few million...

Theres nothing you can do to actually improve things by much margin.

3 Examples :
A) Say I have a nice house, make more and then buy a bigger house...What does this actually do for me? Is living in a much larger/expensive space going to really make you that much happier..

No. Its just a larger box. Your quality of life is still pretty much the same.

B) Say I am flying private. I can go from the smaller plane to the BIGGER plane.

Is this going to make me that much happier? No.

Even if I go from first class to private, the 1 hour or so saved at the airport isn't going to skyrocket my life quality.

C) Cars, food, etc

Say I have a nice BMW and get a lambo. Again...Its cool for 1-2 weeks. Then its just a car that looks cooler n goes faster.

Your not getting any difference in life.

The simple truth is after you have adqueate space to live in and freedom of time/choice and lack of financial stress theres nothing you can BUY thats going to sky rocket your life quality.

You can only hit a certain level of happy

Jeff Bezos on his 500 mil yacht may or may not be having just a good a time as some college frat guy at a party or someone on a smaller boat.

Its all just perspective at that point.

Your real happiness will come from doing what you love every day and being healthy which can be obtained pretty early in wealth.

Dont get me wrong. I like nice shit. Ive bought very nice shit, done multi hundred K vacations etc.

They are fun. That said I never got a level of happiness I havnt achieved elsewhere in life.

Ive gotten more joy from doing Jiu Jitsu or getting drunk with my dad on the beach and many relatively easy things to obtain.

In short. Your happiness will mostly always be the same no matter how rich you get. You cant get past 100% happy. Jeff Bezo and you have the same cap.

You can however buy your way out of stress, lack of choices, etc. This doesnt take much wealth.

[JT @ZwindoShop]

@Nomandate4ever @GuyDealership This! 😂

[JT @ZwindoShop]

@WisdomTreeGrows @GuyDealership Yeah, I'm calling BS on the original post. Tarde in KBB prices have dropped hard.