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28 Mar, 5 tweets, 2 min read
Today begins Autism Awareness Week, so I'll share the most important screenshots from my book on autism (available for free at gum.co/twtamg or as a paperback on Amazon amzn.to/3cqZLug)

1/ First, an example to visualize autistic perception (continues below)
2/ The second of three pages describing the example
3/ The third page
4/ And here is the effect on daily life.
5/ To continue this thread for #autismawareness week, peripheral functionality blindness: why people on the autistic spectrum are less proficient at activities whose real purpose is different from the stated one.

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29 Mar
MEGA-THREAD OF ALL THE TIMES VIRUS LABS "LOST" DANGEROUS PATHOGENS

1/ SARS is documented to have escaped virus labs multiple times; twice from the same one

2/ The Institut Pasteur lost 2349 vials of SARS and once transported vials on a regular plane breaking protocols

(thread)
(I will post all sources at the end of the thread)
3/ More than 100 US labs with bioterror pathogens had faced federal sanctions for safety violations…

…and regulators allowed them to keep conducting experiments while failing inspections, sometimes for years. Image
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28 Mar
SARS escaped a lab multiple times. Twice from the same one.

Regardless of the origins of COVID, the narratives that one is a bad person for suggesting that viruses can escape from labs is dangerous.

If labs are a risk, pretending they’re safe for ideological reasons is insane.
On the same topic, the tweet below and this article (a list of known lab incidents; who knows how many are unknown) (ht @trishankkarthik for the link):
eu.usatoday.com/in-depth/opini…
This paragraph in particular is shocking and everyone should be aware of it.
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27 Mar
Hypothesis: "Resistance to change" is BS.

It's not that we resist change. It's that we don't fancy doing things we didn't experience being good for us.

It has nothing to do with new or old – as a proof, we are quick to try something new when we experienced it being good.

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2/ The thing is, we might know that trying the new thing makes sense, but unless we emotionally experienced it being good, we won't try it.

But it hasn't anything to do with it being new. Even if it were old, we'd only do it if we emotionally thought it'd be good for us.
3/ Hence, my hypothesis that resistance to change is BS.

It's a confabulation for why we are likely not to do something new. But it hasn't to do with it being new.

It's just selection bias: what is new is more likely to lack some factor which is required for its adoption.
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27 Mar
💯 Changing cultures requires at least some "touch" – something that can only be delivered close by

Change initiatives that fail to consider this and only focus on what can be delivered "from the distance", such as a Mission & Values statement, fail

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2/ Employees receive formal communication from top management (eg company-wide presentations) BUT the day-to-day words and actions from their colleagues and direct manager are more frequent and delivered from closer and thus have a much larger influence on behavior.
3/ Just like our circulatory system is fractal (arteries → blood vessels → capillaries) because oxygen can only be exchanged with cells nearby,

A change initiative must answer the question: how will it deliver and reinforce the change FROM CLOSE-BY?
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24 Mar
ADAPTIVE SYSTEMS AND ANTIFRAGILE ORGANIZATIONS

It's extremely important to think of populations and organizations as adaptive systems.

When you make a new policy, what matters is not what the policy intends to achieve, but how the population adapts to it.

(thread, 1/N)
2/ In management, it's critical to understand that your team is an adaptive system: they adapt to their workplace and to your actions.

Skills & motivations are largely an adaptation to the work environments in which they work (or worked).
3/ This is why, for example, as a manager you want to take decisions not just for their immediate effect but for the behaviors that they make more likely in the future.

(example in the next tweet)
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24 Mar
Two under-discussed questions re: COVID

1/ First question: how much of the COVID epidemic in a country depends on its policies and the behavior of its citizens, and how much depends just on how concentrated was the virus in the country?
2/ For example, take two identical countries: same population, same climate, same culture, same policies. At the beginning of the pandemic, 100 COVID patients are parachuted in country A and 100k in country B. Clearly, country B will have many more cases.
3/ How much virus is in a country is a clear factor influencing the course of the pandemic inside it.

And yet, policies and outcomes are compared as if it didn't matter (example: Sweden got it easy, so Lombardy didn't have to go full lockdown – that's a fallacious argument)
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