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01 / evaluation
“You cannot throw, like, you know, a bunch of engineering manuals and cement into a gorge and expect to get a bridge because the books don't have knowledge, teams have knowledge, organizations have knowledge.”
02 / evaluation
“Now, I think we tend to think about it as non physical because it is a thing that is not a thing, which is the same as temperature.”
03 / evaluation
“And the idea of shipping the book directly to a consumer might look like a small incremental innovation. But in reality it was an architectural innovation, and when I do talks and I present this with slides, what I do is I show the picture of a Barnes and Noble, and then next to that I show a picture of an Amazon fulfillment center, which looks like kind of like this part of the airport that is you know sorting all of the different luggage, and that shows that no, that little idea of just shipping directly to consumer require a completely different organizational design, and the distance between the Barnes and Noble organization in this network that we were describing before in that model with the to the Amazon model was enormous in reality just because of that change.”
04 / belief
“Now, I think we tend to think about it as non physical because it is a thing that is not a thing, which is the same as temperature.”
05 / belief
“Like there there is this statistic I think in The United States, if you count Nobel Prize winners after the year 19 seventies, 70% of them, you know, were born outside of the country or or or they migrated at some point in their lives.”
06 / belief
“You know, so what I do in in that chapter is is built a little bit of a parallel because when it comes to economic development, I think the 2 dominant ideas are that it's about knowledge or it's about institutions.”
07 / observation
“You had to have someone that had that experiential knowledge, you know, that had worked with the best, with Arkwright and Stratt, to come all the way to The US in an act of treason because it was a punishable act of treason to bring that technology to America to eventually be able to build that capability.”
08 / prediction
“Instant photography was also laughed at at some point because it was worse, but then eventually that curve keeps on growing and it gets to like a plateau that goes even higher, and then a new technology comes along and moves into a plateau that is higher.”
09 / evaluation
“Now there is another distinction that is extremely important and that I used a story at the beginning of the book to illustrate, is that also especially among academics or people that are highly educated, we talk about knowledge as this sort of truths that have been validated by the scientific method and so forth.”
10 / observation
“He's very smart, he looks at the cost of the last aircraft produced in a batch because aircrafts are producing batches, and he finds also that the number of man hours as a function of the number of aircrafts in the batch decreases as a power law.”
11 / evaluation
“If I give you a hammer, I cannot use the hammer while you are using it because it's rival.”
12 / preference
“Well, I I explain my situation, I get those answers, and then I have an accountant and when I meet with my accountant to discuss that, I'm much better informed and I can make better questions. So I think I'm becoming smarter through those conversations because I'm learning faster thanks to those interactions.”
13 / preference
“No, I think experiential learning is important to transmit that tacit knowledge. And I think you have stories of people that have that intuition and that have been successful because they have developed careers following that intuition.”
14 / evaluation
“You cannot throw like you know a bunch of engineering manuals and cement into a gorge and expect to get a bridge because the books don't have knowledge, teams have knowledge, organizations have knowledge and all of that.”