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27/ Innovations appearing outside the organizations which find them useful is still a huge problem today. pic.twitter.com/QIDhROCAVt
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17/ Bush earns his reputation as the person who can go between Military/Government, Academia, and Industry.
He gets both how the structures of each of them make sense in their own context, but then clash when they interface. pic.twitter.com/LyrluRGsPy
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18/ SO FAST pic.twitter.com/Q3i8keE8Gw
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19/ Trust in lines of communication is underrated as a goal to strive for. pic.twitter.com/Pma21zfbpj
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20/ The consequences of these organizational structures today - NASA changes it's goals every 4 or 8 years ... pic.twitter.com/GzmqFiFisW
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21/ I'm still not sure if Bush or Jewett was right ...
Deserves more digging! pic.twitter.com/mFajpWsuHJ
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22/ Many of the stories emphasize @SafiBahcall's point in Loonshots about the need to manage the transfer of technology from the people who create it to the people who use it.
Also hi Millikan! I love how random science heroes just drop into the story. pic.twitter.com/3iyT2WPoT6
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23/ "I am a hog on the ice - see how I slide!" pic.twitter.com/761HyQHw9P
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24/ Committees can actually be good: when there are two groups who think very differently but have a common goal. pic.twitter.com/b0p15cyQTy
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25/ Made me think a lot about the value of coordinating efforts vs. letting a thousand flowers bloom.
Where I came down is that you should absolutely have parallel efforts but there is an optimum amount of coordination that isn't zero. Were that optimum lies an open question pic.twitter.com/n6RoKMsebI
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26/ War may be one of the few situations where *massive* numbers of people all have a real stake in the outcome. pic.twitter.com/iuOIJg3XWB
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28/ To be written of like this: LIFE GOALS pic.twitter.com/YvlgYAkDbc
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29/ There are so many things that fall into this category: the concept is straightforward so it's not 'novel' but it takes a ton of R&D and grinding to even get it to the point of a proof of concept. pic.twitter.com/LOaVmCF08K
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30/ I think Bush was a truly kind person. This is the story of what he did for civilians who kept sending him ideas for inventions they thought were desperately important to the war effort. pic.twitter.com/cnAOFPNhZE
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31/ The duality of command - sometimes commanders need to be obeyed no questions asked, and sometimes they need to be challenged. I love the idea of having a literal physical signal for it.
Apparently businesspeople used to use their ties for this too. We've lost these signals pic.twitter.com/TaosaS7Dat
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32/ I feel like we don't talk about inventing things anymore. We have entrepreneurs, hackers, researchers ... but nobody is an inventor. pic.twitter.com/EsLEKX9EFH
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33/ Some things never change ... pic.twitter.com/Ea0dAL4o99
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34/ A sobering analysis of why large companies with a single major product have no incentive to incorporate an improvement (even a large one) to a single part of that product. pic.twitter.com/ThQnWOGBsd
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35/ I feel like *accidental* blackouts don't happen anymore in developed countries. One of those subtle but big improvements. pic.twitter.com/ryZZe4XGzO
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36/ Nuance about commercialization. I feel like *commercialize all the things!* can be as dangerous as *commercialization taints your soul!* pic.twitter.com/feRITNFw49
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37/ Now this was a 🤯🤨🤔 moment - the assertion that patents aren't actually there to reward an inventor. Instead it's to give a venture captialist incentive to *fund* the inventor.
Still mentally masticating this one. pic.twitter.com/V3cPhQbIuz
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38/ I'm *very* hesitant to use the B word. But if there was actually a good way of encoding what was new about an invention - what constraints it relaxed and which constraint it had, might that be a place for (furtively looks back and forth and whispers) Blockchain? pic.twitter.com/IO7fTxNcOU
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39/ The level of meta self-awareness here is off the charts.
Also a lesson for a lot of people talking about AI today ... pic.twitter.com/uIbrIqKgfM
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40/ NBD pic.twitter.com/vdKezdTqIm
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41/ He's calling out that electric cars would be awesome ... in 1970. Problem was the batteries.
Imagine if we had a good way to encode which technologies would be amazing except for a precise constraint - how much awesome could we unlock? pic.twitter.com/jSoduVrMHH
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42/ Did you know that Stirling (of Stirling Engine fame) was a clergyman? So much early science (see: Mendel) was done by clergymen because monasteries were one of the few places where you had a bunch of educated people with time and relative safety on their hands ... pic.twitter.com/PapZyYVPYi
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43/ Advances in material science are the root cause for a mind-blowing number of technological advances. The field is still underappreciated. pic.twitter.com/ncqUfjE3QA
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44/ Air force needing oxygen for pilots -> research to make oxygen -> cheap oxygen -> cheaper steel making -> order of magnitude cheaper steel. 🤯 pic.twitter.com/KG497y2sSv
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45/ Oh those youngersters pic.twitter.com/hapJbdPHaa
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46/ Why don't we have great fleets of hydrofoils? pic.twitter.com/MlR4d4Ouks
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47/ Another sobering look at why single-product markets like cars and trains are hard to revolutionize. pic.twitter.com/7q1eOkyuvW
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48/ He also invented new art techniques? pic.twitter.com/CWgn5zvBzr
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49/ Nothing like a well designed and fabricated crankshaft pic.twitter.com/8D6ekA3uYi
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50/ More things that haven't changed since 1970 :-/ pic.twitter.com/FzgQkBQh4g
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51/ "These aren't the nineties you are looking for..." pic.twitter.com/eudp1gsdjO
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52/ Learning how math works by building a machine to do the math! pic.twitter.com/VznI5n7q3P
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53/ More nuance. Instead of the debate over whether education is just skill training or signaling, maybe it's complex and many things. pic.twitter.com/AABAcWAMBe
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54/ The soundtrack for this passage: youtube.com/watch?v=WySzEX… pic.twitter.com/YxJRujWgBi
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55/ The book has Biographical Notes on almost every person mentioned!! I've never seen this before and it is amazing. pic.twitter.com/2KsjoTzHMD
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end/
There are lots of great pieces I skipped so if this intrigued you - read it! It's (used) on AMZ or on openlibrary.org.
This is part of my ongoing research into people/orgs that enabled quantum tech leaps.
benjaminreinhardt.com or ideamachinespodcast.com
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