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13 Jul, 17 tweets, 6 min read
This is a 🧵organizing my 🧵s on org structure for companies, how balena works, and #gameb in startup form. These go together for semi-obvious reasons, but let's start with our dedication to Short Term Pain for Long Term Game or as we say in balena #stpltg
First, let's establish some known problems, starting from all the known and persistent problems that appear in hierarchical organizations.
A fantastic articulation of the same problem:
Then, a trio of threads on the cancer that is specialization:

1/
I really don't like specialization

2/
No really. I have serious issues with it.

3/
An attempt to illustrate the problem I have with modern-day organizational paradigms. Yes, specialization has something to do with it:
In case you weren't depressed yet, let's talk about the unsolvable problem of estimating how long building something novel will take:
An exploration of what we know about collective intelligence.
#gameB encapsulates a lot about what I consider to be a frame within a solution may be found.
The pattern of anti-inductiveness has interesting hints:
Getting a bit more prescriptive, the answer, to the best of my knowledge, must look less like a tree and more like a loop:
And remember, you'll have to make a lot of your own tools from scratch if you want to do something truly new. (this thread isn't really about Tesla but about Balena, read on:)
Another post on the need for #gameB in startups and companies in general -
Last thread I have for now, a few tips on how to be a remote company:
And some from not-me:
Metrics are not your friend:

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14 Jul
Sensemaking Robert Malone & mRNA vaccines, part II

In part I, I asked for help in finding pointers to understanding, and Twitter delivered. The arrows point all over the place.

In part II, I will try to build up a factual basis, without yet drawing grand conclusions.
First and foremost, many grant Malone credit for writing this paper, but claim that he was but one of three authors. pnas.org/content/86/16/… Indeed, if we look at the authors and their affiliations, it looks like a "normal" paper, coming out of Salk Institute. Image
If we read the original document though, something fascinating shows up: This paper is not "normal" at all. The affiliation of the 1st author (Malone) is in 3 institutions, while author #2 and author #3 are in one institution each, shared only with Malone. pnas.org/content/pnas/8… Image
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13 Jul
Indicators like "# of publications", "h-index", "degrees", "affiliation" &c, are all extremely imperfect. Their imperfections lead to abuse and capture. I actually wrote a paper about this back in 2009, which affected my decision to leave academia. researchgate.net/publication/24… Image
I then posted the same idea to LessWrong, and the commenters there (not the peer reviewers in for the publication above) showed me that the same ideas had been discussed in economics in the 70's. Mainly Goodhart's Law. lesswrong.com/posts/fTu69HzL…
Goodhart's law, (and the Lucas critique, and Campbell's law) all point in the same direction: metrics are useful indications, but when used for decisionmaking against intelligent agents, they lose all potency: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goodhart%… Image
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13 Jul
It all comes to this: It's time for a 🧵of🧵of🧵s!

I write a lot of threads, and this is the "table of contents".

First in line, one where I develop, loosely, my vision for the far future.
Can we make a self-replicator? Yes! One day...
How can people work together in a way that maximizes the potential of every person and the group as well? Definitely not how we're doing it now, I'll tell you that much -
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12 Jul
A 🧵organizing my 🧵s for various non-3d printing projects. Hopefully more to come here in the future.

For now we have - Rolamite:
Tensegrity Cube:
Linear rail with extrusions and magnets -
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12 Jul
A 🧵organizing my 3d printing🧵s:

Starting with when I bought a printer. This is a monster thread containing:

- 3D printer and first prints:


- Designing hexagonal legos for my son:


- Copperplating fun:
This thread is about first principles approach to 3d printing -- exploring what's really possible:
Monorail printer and other crazy ideas -
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11 Jul
Some people have noted I'm focusing too much on Yuri's tone/flaws and too little on actual errors. Here is yet one more time I tried to engage on the facts, in what I believe is good faith, only to get more noise. If I'm missing something, I'd appreciate being told what it is.
My response to his request in 3 tweets here:
He then tells me that "If I'd listened to the podcasts I'd know", which I've said several times is insufficient citation, because what I need to confirm his quote is *his* citation, not mine.
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