"It just means that their measuring tape is wrong"
I love this quote from a recent Elon Musk email to his employees. In referring to how precise the design tolerances of the Model 3 should be, Elon says that it...
I love this quote from a recent Elon Musk email to his employees. In referring to how precise the design tolerances of the Model 3 should be, Elon says that it should be **“designed and built with such accuracy and precision that, if an owner measures dimensions, panel gaps and flushness, and their measurements don’t match the Model 3 specs, it just means that their measuring tape is wrong.” **
This attention to detail is something that I try and strive for with what I build and this quote is inspiring because it is about setting a standard that is so above and beyond what others are doing that the only reason is due to a love and passion for what is being created.
In your own products and creations I hope you can work on that level of detail as an aspiration. I would not say to start out trying to beat a measuring tape, but under the Japanese concept of “kaizen,” which means “constant improvement,” you are incrementally working each day to try and improve upon what you are creating.
I hope you can take this to heart and work towards your goal, inch by inch, millimeter by millimeter until you are the standard by which others are measured.
