Elon Musk on how to choose what to work on
A brief spoken segment (YouTube) where the speaker—presented as Elon Musk—argues that choosing work should prioritize usefulness: optimize for making people's lives better. He emphasizes that even small improvements spread across many people (the "area under the curve") can be highly valuable, and that not every project must "change the world" to be worthwhile.
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