Nathan Barry explains Elon Musk's core principle: engineers, designers, and manufacturers must work together on the factory floor, not in separate silos. Poor integration is like a Porsche engine in a Prius body. The same problem shows up in education design.
Elon Musk's biography, one of his core principles is that engineering, design, and manufacturing all have to be deeply connected to each other, right? Because what would happen is the designers and the engineers would either in a vacuum come up with these things that wouldn't work together, or they would work really closely together and be like, we have designed the perfect solution and all of that. Now you over there, the battery factory outside of Reno, you manufacture it. It wouldn't work in practice and like in reality. And there was no communication, none of that. And so Elon would always tell the, you know, the engineers and the designers, like, you must be on the factory floor.
That's so interesting. And, and I, I talk to people about that all the time. Like, you can have a great car, you know, let's say it's a Porsche. You can have a great EV, let's say it's a Prius. You can't put the Prius inside of the Porsche and expect the Porsche to perform really well. And, and that's kind of the ongoing issue in education, is we design components but we don't think about deep integration.
