The most impactful article I've read in the past year - The Cook and the Chef: Musk’s Secret Sauce
https://waitbutwhy.com/2015/11/the-cook-and-the-chef-musks-secret-sauce.html
A blogger spent several months talking to Elon Musk and researching his companies, trying to figure out how he thinks and what makes him able to do what he does.
The answer - thinking from first principles. This article describes it in detail.