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Some persons are extraordinarily good at discovering big+solvable problems, and at continuously convincing other people that it’s worth burning themselves out in pursuit of it.

I think it’s worth pointing out that some projects are worth that level of devotion, and visibly so in real-time.

But we can’t make a project worth that level of enthusiasm and attention just by demanding people to act like it is (the siren song that leads to the earlier-discussed culture spirals). Often-well-meaning people will put the cart before the horse, but no amount of quacking will turn you into a duck, etc.

On balance, it’s healthy to be skeptical of people demanding devotion to some process or objective that’s not rooted in first principles you can agree with.

It wouldn’t surprise me too much if a meaningful proportion of the 3.6m applications per year are filed by people who find the first principles behind Tesla’s culture worthy of their devotion.

But yeah, the number of companies or projects that would benefit from that style of approach is quite small. 20% is the ceiling, 10% feels closer to the truth.