I still have to complete the article and do a few edits so......
[ Warning : This article has an engineering Overtone ]
Part I : Those wretched MBA
At first to be completely honest a) it is more of the Soviet way than the Russian Way b) this article might get a bit meta and c) this article was in my head for a while but I couldn’t understand it until Elon Musk said MBAs are polluting the industry and then it clicked that they had nearly destroyed the innovation part of engineering , ruining field from Ballistics to Combat aviation , Micro-Circuitry to Aerospace , everything was becoming boring due to their standardization and multi role optimization ( fancy words for cost saving measures ) , and by no means do I mean to say that we need to put money blindly in these fields , I just know the use of plain statistics is more harmful , and doing more potential loss if there isn’t any intuition involved .
If you think I am wrong , I’ll give you the biggest example I can think exist , the existence of the F35 jet ; it is a 1 trillion dollar economy of its own I kid you not , it was given as a joint project to the Airforce , Navy and Marines (as a cost saving measure! ) , And due to inefficiency in the legal system and politics it got stuck in a loop of delays , irregularities and it’s price inflated . It was supposed to replace the f-18 (which is a beast in its own sense ) but it couldn’t replace it cause at the end it was not much more of an optimised version of it with a new accessories upgrade
And now a new jet is being developed to serve its replacement. This was clearly a mistake , a hefty one at that but it should be a wake up call to view other things instead of optimisations. One needs to strike the right balance of “user” needs, engineering, and cost/standardization , it is one of the essential creeds of the MBA ... And Most MBA schools seems to have forgotten that...
Part II : The Soviet ways and Musk
What is the opposite of the Current Optimize everything way the current MBAs use ; THE SOVIET WAY , before I get into I’d like to mention as much as engineering and stem fields are hard there is always a passion , intuition and love involved in them , it sound cheesy but it’s true and they are the biggest reason why the people attached to them want to break barriers , set record and change the way we see stuff , not for fame but for the lovepart . The love can be for the field , their philosophy , or just their existence . That’s what the Soviets Scientists did or I atleast I think they did . They didn’t have a lot of resources , insight , or even basic comfort , All they had was an end goal , a mission statement like ; Be the first to reach space , launch the first Satellite , solve an aerospace problem so difficult NASA with all its resources couldn’t do it for the next 25 years , creation of such spy ware that would do the impossible . They always started from the ground up . the most amazing and benifical quality they had was they knew that if this design was wrong and no number of optimisations would help it , they’d start again.That statement , just a simple admission of the fact we need to redo the design is the key to Designing Success , I haven’t seen many use this key since the last century , apart from one , Elon Musk . When he said that “we are to send people to Mars“ , I thought this is nothing but plain marketing and at best inspirational and awareness creating B.S. , but after seeing the starship in action not one but 3 prototype launches in 4 months and more than 15 prototypes done and over a 100 to be created , I am not only going to agree with Musk on the we will reach Mars but it might also happen in less than 30 years . The Starship Program is very similar to the Soviets days , cause till now it has had 3 major/full design changes and many more coming , in a span of just 10 prototype , which is a huge deal , over 3 explosions , and 1 successful landing ... So far , it might not seem like a big deal but it is , the innovation phase is many times fast than the one of the Aerospace Giant NASA .
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