Elon Musk on how to choose what to work on
Short excerpt from a YouTube video (speaker: Elon Musk) about choosing what to work on. Musk frames decision-making as a "usefulness optimization": judge projects by how useful they are (including small improvements distributed across many people), and consider the "area under the curve"—small benefits to many can be highly valuable.
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