From the outside, it looks like Tesla and SpaceX are doing an unusually good (though likely not perfect) job of resisting mazedom and staying in touch with physical reality. Things like having a rule where any employee can talk to Musk directly, and blocking that is a fireable offence, promoting self-management rather than layers of middle management, over-the-top work ethic as a norm to keep out people who don’t actually want to build things, and checking for people who have solved hard technical problems in the hiring process.
I’d be interested to hear from any employees of those organizations how it is on the ground.
From the outside, it looks like Tesla and SpaceX are doing an unusually good (though likely not perfect) job of resisting mazedom and staying in touch with physical reality. Things like having a rule where any employee can talk to Musk directly, and blocking that is a fireable offence, promoting self-management rather than layers of middle management, over-the-top work ethic as a norm to keep out people who don’t actually want to build things, and checking for people who have solved hard technical problems in the hiring process.
I’d be interested to hear from any employees of those organizations how it is on the ground.