Tactic 01
Elon Musk, All-In
Solve The Hardest Core Component First
The play
Identify and solve the hardest core component before building the rest.
Elon Musk says
The hands, including the forearm, are the majority of the engineering difficulty of the entire robot. The human hand has something like 27 or 28 degrees of freedom. To create a generalized humanoid robot, you must solve the hand problem.
Try this
Identify the single hardest core component in your current project and prioritize solving it before anything else.