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Feb 8, 2022 6 tweets 1 min read Read on X
My grandma’s apartment is valued at 95k€ ($108k)

The Italian government is paying for a 81k€ ($92k) intervention to improve its energetic efficiency. That’s 85% of the house value. Our cost: 650€ ($740).

And it’s a nation-wide program.

Good luck repaying this national debt.
My problem is not just with the absolute costs but also with the government removing most incentives for landlords to be cost effective.
My Occam's razor for why these incentives:

If you’re a landlord, your buildings just got a free bump in value (after you do the works which are free).

If most parliament members are landlords…
The easiest test to spot the bullshit:

after the energy-saving intervention, will my grandma’s apartment appreciate 85%?
Someone asked for a break-even analysis.

Yearly heating costs are 148k€ for 2020.
That's 1/122 of the intervention cost.

If energy costs double, that's a 61 years B/E.
On a 45-yo building.

(deleted the previous B/E analysis because I looked at the wrong heating costs)
The Italian government is also covering up 110% of costs up to 96k€ *per apartment* to reduce seismic risk. E

Even in cities that three years ago were in the lowest seismic risk areas and got recently moved to the second-lowest of four risk categories (such as Turin area).

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Jun 2
I recently got a small grant (courtesy of Kanro, Vitalik Buterin's foundation) to produce some educational materials regarding the pandemic response.

These 10 one-pagers are the first batch of educational materials.

Any feedback?

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Some more background about the one-pagers. They are meant for people who are already onboard with the need to properly react to an eventual future pandemic but don't have the vocabulary or examples to explain to others what they can do and why.

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A simple model to understand indoor infection risk

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Apr 20
What do I think an educated society means?

Nothing about graduation rates (literacy rates, yes).

Instead:
– Knowing what matters for society to work well
– Being able to find a value-adding role in society
– Having learned that personal improvement is achievable

Not banal

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1) Knowing what matters for society to work well

Things such as:
– What brings prosperity?
– What did countries that were wealthy and democratic do (or didn't do) that caused them to become poor or totalitarian

Seems banal, but…

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…we only discuss how good it's to be prosperous or democratic without discussing how to get there or how not to fall back to the default state (poverty / absence of rights)

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Apr 8
BEYOND THE CHECKLIST

A problem of many organizations is that they are aware of the needs of employees (impact, recognition, growth, fair salary, etc) but fulfill them as they would with a checklist: let's do this superficially, checked, done.

Some examples (& solutions) ↓

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Example #1: recognition.

Many companies and managers know that employees want recognition.

But they fulfill this need in a very superficial way. With a small internal award, a certificate, etc. Top red flag: it's HR-driven and/or feels cringe.

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The alternative:
– make it personal: it should come from the boss or the boss' boss.
– make it congruent: a moment of recognition followed by a year of no recognition feels (and likely is) fake.

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Whenever we desire an outcome but not the actions that would make us achieve it, we end up with inaction, busywork, shortcuts, excuses, and, ultimately, frustration.

(a thread of highlights from the first chapter of my book "The Control Heuristic")

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You probably do not have a decision-making problem, but an action-taking one

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Decision-making is not the same as action-taking.
The cortex is mostly responsible for taking decisions, and the ~basal ganglia determines whether we act on our decisions.

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Jun 9, 2023
TIPS FOR EFFECTIVE DELEGATION

1) Minimize the chance of misunderstandings:

Explain:
– what's too little
– what's too much
– common mistakes
2) Explain why you need it done.

Not who asked for it. What it is for. What happens if it's not done. (And what happens if it's not done well enough.)

Tasks whose rationale isn't explained relevantly are done badly and/or at higher emotional cost
3) Pre-empt inaction and failure.

Ask them and yourself:
– Why might they not take action?
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Footnotes are my favorite feature of my book Ergodicity (from which the screenshot below is taken).

In fact, there’s plenty of bolded text in the footnotes.

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