Why the best grid connection is no grid connection
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I went to this program that I'd be surprised if anybody in here has heard of called Make School. And they're a college alternative. They're like a glorified boot camp basically. And I was introduced to them via hackathons. They started marketing through hackathons. And while I was there, met them, was interested, I got into Make School and UC Irvine at the same time. thought, everyone tells me when I go to real college, my life will be totally different, life will be great. And so I go to UC Irvine, don't like it, decide to go to make school instead via make school, get into Tesla. Here we are. So if not for hackathons wouldn't be here. Yeah, they are now defunct.
First time I heard about it. Where you got this. Aha. This is where you learn all those product development, like a little bit of systematic and fast kind of like way of evaluating options.

Tesla is
Oh yeah. Yeah. But it just does a kickstart of the real proper. Could we say that? Yeah, okay.

I who's to say that I'm real proper at anything? I think my, I know.
It counts, as an example, on the 7th and 9th. In my book it counts.

Yeah, I'm good at first principles engineering. Tesla's modus operandi is being scrappy, knowing when to question what it is you're doing and completely rethink a paradigm. If there is a problem that you're facing, question how you got there because it could be that you're focused on fixing this problem. Whereas the system that put you in front of the problem itself might need reworking such that you might not need to solve that problem to begin with. And that's what led to now Voxel. If the grid interconnection is the problem, then the best grid connection is no grid connection. And so that's the foundational principles and basically everything I do at this point.
Love you guys. Yeah, but also like it is, you still do something. Some of the folks out there are like looking like this, like, huh, is it a long-term solution? Is it a real solution? Is it something like he tries to take the opportunity in a way the window is open and then let's just leverage as much as we can. Perhaps, can you just give us a high level Moxil energy, like just to remind or. listeners, what are you guys trying to do? What are you trying to achieve? And then we break it down to the components and try to understand how you do it.


