Lunatic Fringe

[Dustin @r0ck3t23]

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.

[Charles Murray @charlesmurray]

I've watched the whole thing now, and I'm ready to say this is the favorite of any interview I've ever done in 40+ years of doing interviews, edging out my second-favorite, which was the interview I did with Peter Robinson about Coming Apart. He has an incredible gift for enabling people to say what they mean more clearly than they thought they could do on camera.
https://t.co/E51W9LSb5f

[Hoover Institution @HooverInst]

For most of his life, @CharlesMurray was a casual agnostic who assumed smart people had left religion behind. Now he's not so sure. Murray joins @P_M_Robinson on Uncommon Knowledge to discuss the evidence that forced him to reconsider God, the soul, and Christianity—from near-death experiences and the mysterious Shroud of Turin to the historical reliability of the Gospels and the Resurrection.

It's the story of an empirically minded skeptic following the evidence wherever it leads—and discovering that faith may be far more reasonable than he once believed. Watch more of @UncKnowledge on Hoover+: https://t.co/uLv7k4p0Yn

[the lich @thelichhh]

A Nobel Prize-winning economist was seated in front of a television set from 1977 and was asked to argue for the idea that anyone should be allowed to own anything. Almost no one watches it.

Friedrich Hayek is appearing on Firing Line three years after winning the Nobel Prize to defend the idea of private property against a live panel.

There's no editing and no commercial break just four men in suits, one camera, and one hour of argument recorded on tape.

Look at the stage at which he goes from property to knowledge. The argument is not that owners are entitled to it, but that no one can have sufficient information without it.

People debate property online, and he did so on live television.

[Lunatic Fringe @mitjw3]

@Guersmith I’ll take end of season votes over preseason.

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@NOLAnews Mules != Horses

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@charlesmurray I’m sure you’ll get many suggestions, but in the DC area, I’d go to any of Peter Chang’s places.

[Lunatic Fringe @mitjw3]

Thank you Governor. @LAGovJeffLandry

[Rod Walker @RodWalkerNola]

Per statistics guru Jeff Asher….

There have been 50 murders in New Orleans through July 2026, the fewest through July since 1969. New Orleans is on pace for fewer than 100 murders for the first time since 1971 (99).

[Lunatic Fringe @mitjw3]

@charlesmurray How do you decide if HI is the most East or West? I guess it depends on your starting point/point of reference…

[Lunatic Fringe @mitjw3]

@charlesmurray What could possibly go wrong…?

[Lunatic Fringe @mitjw3]

@greenwavecolin So a 0.05% chance of going undefeated?

[Lunatic Fringe @mitjw3]

@RonDeSantis I haven’t gotten a single piece of unwanted email since the CAN-SPAM Act!

[Crémieux @cremieuxrecueil]

Reminder that the Founding Fathers also drank excessively.

Today you can do that too.

[Charles Murray @charlesmurray]

This American mind is having a hard time believing it hasn’t had a few of the notes corrected post-production. But I love it anyway.

[Lunatic Fringe @mitjw3]

@Kpedeaux I picked up a U-Haul and I’m helping my son move there this weekend.

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@nic_carter @amyklobuchar Both?

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@SenWarren He’s far from “typical.”

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@EchoesofWarYT @tedcruz

[Lunatic Fringe @mitjw3]

@charlesmurray Thank you for the UChicago respect.

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@BobbyBorkIII Yes, you can’t beat having an accountability partner.