Bloomberg.com:
Tesla Inc. is close to an agreement to produce vehicles in China for the first time, giving the electric-car maker better access to the world’s largest auto market, according to people familiar with the matter.
The agreement with the city of Shanghai would allow Tesla to build facilities in its Lingang development zone and could come as soon as this week, said the people, who asked not to be identified because the negotiations are private.
Thanks to his news, the stock price of Tesla may fluctuate sharply.
Tesla’s founder and CEO is Elon Musk, who is called the Iron Man in silicon valley.
Yesterday, I learned the Commencement Speech in USC of Elon Musk, in the lesson of Using English Everyday. In the speech, he told the graduating students four terms about success in his mind, work hard, attack great people, focus on signal over noise, and think in first principle. I have the biggest interesting about the last one.
And then the final thing is, is to sort of, don’t just follow the trend. So, you may have heard me say that it’s good to thinking terms of the physics approach, the first principles.
First principle is not a new conception. In philosophy, first principles are taught by Aristotle, an ancient Greece philosopher. A first principle is a basic, foundational, self-evident proposition or assumption that cannot be deduced from any other proposition or assumption. In mathematics, first principles are referred to as axioms and postulates.
Elon described his ideas about startups using the first principle, researched the world through the Physical angle. He sticked off the circles of superficial phenomenons, reached to the essence of things. It is same as finding out the DNA, that we can carry out works surrounding it. Elon founded PayPal, SpaceX, Tesla，and SolarCity using the theory. We can also use it in our life.
You feel satisfied with a sunhat which has good effect of sun-shade. But the saleswoman’s service attitude is so bad. Buy it, or turn back? Buy it certainly, because the first principle is the gratified sunhat.
You have a delicious lunch in eatery, but it gives full measure. Leave it, or eat it? Leave it certainly, because the first principle is getting just enough food.
You drive a car, coming across red light in a intersection. There is no other vehicle, pedestrian, and camera. Stop, or go on. Stop certainly, because the first principle is arriving the destination safely.
Ask yourself frequently: what is more important, what is the most important. Upgrade your values, use the first principle freely when you face to the choice.
从埃隆·马斯克的演讲学到的
据彭博社报道，消息人士透露，特斯拉已与上海市有关方面就在上海设立汽车制造厂接近达成协议，将首次实现在中国生产汽车，以更好地进入中国这个全球最大的汽车市场。 消息人士称，该协议最早将在本周达成，将允许特斯拉在上海临港产业区设立工厂。
这一消息，必将引发特斯拉股价的大幅波动。
提起特斯拉，人们的第一反应就是它的创始人兼CEO人称“硅谷钢铁侠”的埃隆·马斯克。
昨天，在天天用英语课程里，学习了埃隆·马斯克2014年在南加州大学的毕业演讲。演讲中，他总结了在心目中获得成功的四个重要法则，2倍时间工作、与牛人接触、专注于提升产品或服务的质量，以及运用第一性原理思考。而我对其中的第一性原理兴趣最大。
最后一条就是，不要追着趋势走。因此，你可能听我说过：“用物理模型来思考是有益的，那就是第一性原理。”
第一性原理并不是一个新概念，最早由古希腊哲学家亚里士多德提出，指的是一个最基本的命题或假设，不能被省略或删除，也不能被违反。第一性原理相当于是在数学中的公理。
埃隆·马斯克借用第一性原理来表达自己的创业理念，通过物理学的角度来看待世界，一层层地剥开事物的表象，看到本质，相当于发现人体的DNA，并围绕这个DNA开展工作。埃隆把这个原理用在了创业上，创办了PayPal、SpaceX、Tesla，以及SolarCity。而我们同样可以把这个原理运用到工作生活当中。
1、看中了一款遮阳帽，遮阳效果好，时尚漂亮，你很喜欢，但售货员的服务态度很差。买，还是转身走人？当然是买下帽子，再走人，因为买到称心的帽子才是你的本次购物本质。
2、在饭店吃饭，饭菜很可口，但每一份的量都偏大，吃到最后还剩了不少。把饭菜剩下来，还是大家分一分把它吃完？当然是把饭菜剩下或打包，吃饱是吃饭的核心，而不是不浪费。
3、开车走到一个十字路口，遇到红灯。此时，既没有其他车辆和行人，又没有监控摄像头。停下来，还是继续前进？当然是停下来，按信号灯行车，开车的最根本目的，既不是为了速度，也不是为了激情，而是为了安全到达目的地。
经常问自己，什么更重要，什么最重要，不断升级自己的价值观，就能够在面对选择时熟练地运用第一性原理。