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To: sandeep who wrote (20069)	8/24/2024 10:08:23 PM
From: Kirk ©	Read Replies (2) of 26642

You know when I was at HP back in the days it was pretty much the top place to work and we had extremely difficult standards to get R&D jobs... they allowed up to 20% of our "work time" to do special projects that had nothing to do with our jobs. A lot of times those projects became new products. When HP labs invented a color plotter that could also cut masks, one guy I worked with who was good at software in our lab wrote a program to test the ink that was like a video game. You would shoot a projectile at another ship around some planets drawn as circles by the plotter. I took the program and modified it to run, after correction some math errors, to run on graphic terminals and we called it "Space Wars" similar to "Space Invaders" that was not a graphical program yet... My boss's boss and many of us spent many lunch hours and mental breaks shooting the projectiles on the terminal with the goal to see how long they could keep circling the planets before they'd crash. It was amazing how you could fill up a screen with traces if you had enough significant figures in the launch speed and angle. Loads of other examples The point is creative minds need outlets. Stockholders COULD insist Musk spend a certain amount of time at each company, but I look at it more as they are paying him for his guidance and insight. If you work for him, he demands you work as hard and long as he does so not many stay around if he doesn't have others run the day-to-day. I have a buddy who ran a machine shop who got 3AM calls from Musk when they were getting production running at the Fremont, CA plant. My buddy eventually left the country to return to Europe.... maybe where they are not called at 3AM to work by the customer's CEO.

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