- Relentlessly focused on weekly progress
- The Elon method boiled all the way down is "what have you gotten done this week?"
- Rejects traditional corporate timelines and long-term planning over months and years
- Works predominantly with engineers
- Personally understands all technical systems
- Avoids non-engineering meetings/conversations when possible, joins all the core engineering focused meetings
- Skips management layers completely
- Talks directly to person in charge of specific project
- He's in there with 24-year-old engineers and they'll just walk through fire for him
- Engineers deeply respect his technical knowledge