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The Bitter Lesson versus The Garbage Can
Does process matter? We are about to find out.
Ethan Mollick
Jul 28
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One of my favorite academic papers about organizations is by Ruthanne Huising, and it tells the story of teams that were assigned to create process maps of their company, tracing what the... See more
The Bitter Lesson versus The Garbage Can
Does process matter? We are about to find out.
Ethan Mollick
Jul 28
READ IN APP
One of my favorite academic papers about organizations is by Ruthanne Huising, and it tells the story of teams that were assigned to create process maps of their company, tracing what the... See more
The Bitter Lesson versus The Garbage Can
Vivek Ramaswamy's thought experiment for reducing the size of government on @lexfridman:
"Day 1, anybody in the federal bureaucracy who's not elected, whose Social Security number ends in an odd number, you're out. [Day 2], of those who remain, if your Social Security starts in an even number, you're in, and if it... See more
Pirate Wiresx.comWhen I left Meta, I told Mark that using AI, the Infra org could easily be reduced to 1/10 of their current size while doing a better job (*).
Large companies are like fast-food joints. You need lots of processes to create a bland product with consistent quality with average employees (you cannot have 70K employees... See more
Erik Meijerx.com
I see almost 0 explorations on one of the AI use cases I'm most excited about: using AI to help humans coordinate.
The coordination costs of human groups notoriously scales quadratically: the number of potential pair-wise interactions is roughly the square of number of people in a group.... See more