1/ Did you know that Vannevar Bush (you know, the guy who helped enable everything from radar to the manhattan project, the NSF to memexes) wrote an autobiography? Turns out that yes he did, it's been out of print since the 70's, and it's *excellent* BOOK REPORT THREAD
-
-
10/ Tons of detail about how they structured organizations like the NRDC and *why* Feels like he's basically giving blueprints for people who want to follow that are easy to understand and hard to execute.pic.twitter.com/lnvAth0kTY
Prikaži ovu nit -
11/ He describes the *massive* shift in how science and research was done in the US during WWII. This is where our modern system was born - both the good parts and bad.pic.twitter.com/gvkr8gM1BT
Prikaži ovu nit -
12/ Today, university administration is basically bloatware. But it actually started as a valuable labor aggregator so researchers could focus on research.pic.twitter.com/LreSR9HTUQ
Prikaži ovu nit -
13/ This is the moment that Universities began to depend on federal research dollars. I think this started as a good thing, but the relationship has metastasized.pic.twitter.com/OpJuhFsnCr
Prikaži ovu nit -
-
-
16/ They could review a project in a week and get work started on it *the next day.* More fodder for
@patrickc 's https://patrickcollison.com/fast pic.twitter.com/NUcojhHsrF
Prikaži ovu nit -
17/ Bush earns his reputation as the person who can go between Military/Government, Academia, and Industry. He gets both how the structures of each of them make sense in their own context, but then clash when they interface.pic.twitter.com/LyrluRGsPy
Prikaži ovu nit -
-
19/ Trust in lines of communication is underrated as a goal to strive for.pic.twitter.com/Pma21zfbpj
Prikaži ovu nit -
20/ The consequences of these organizational structures today - NASA changes it's goals every 4 or 8 years ...pic.twitter.com/GzmqFiFisW
Prikaži ovu nit -
21/ I'm still not sure if Bush or Jewett was right ... Deserves more digging!pic.twitter.com/mFajpWsuHJ
Prikaži ovu nit -
22/ Many of the stories emphasize
@SafiBahcall's point in Loonshots about the need to manage the transfer of technology from the people who create it to the people who use it. Also hi Millikan! I love how random science heroes just drop into the story.pic.twitter.com/3iyT2WPoT6
Prikaži ovu nit -
-
24/ Committees can actually be good: when there are two groups who think very differently but have a common goal.pic.twitter.com/b0p15cyQTy
Prikaži ovu nit -
25/ Made me think a lot about the value of coordinating efforts vs. letting a thousand flowers bloom. Where I came down is that you should absolutely have parallel efforts but there is an optimum amount of coordination that isn't zero. Were that optimum lies an open questionpic.twitter.com/n6RoKMsebI
Prikaži ovu nit -
26/ War may be one of the few situations where *massive* numbers of people all have a real stake in the outcome.pic.twitter.com/iuOIJg3XWB
Prikaži ovu nit -
27/ Innovations appearing outside the organizations which find them useful is still a huge problem today.pic.twitter.com/QIDhROCAVt
Prikaži ovu nit -
-
29/ There are so many things that fall into this category: the concept is straightforward so it's not 'novel' but it takes a ton of R&D and grinding to even get it to the point of a proof of concept.pic.twitter.com/LOaVmCF08K
Prikaži ovu nit -
30/ I think Bush was a truly kind person. This is the story of what he did for civilians who kept sending him ideas for inventions they thought were desperately important to the war effort.pic.twitter.com/cnAOFPNhZE
Prikaži ovu nit -
31/ The duality of command - sometimes commanders need to be obeyed no questions asked, and sometimes they need to be challenged. I love the idea of having a literal physical signal for it. Apparently businesspeople used to use their ties for this too. We've lost these signalspic.twitter.com/TaosaS7Dat
Prikaži ovu nit -
32/ I feel like we don't talk about inventing things anymore. We have entrepreneurs, hackers, researchers ... but nobody is an inventor.pic.twitter.com/EsLEKX9EFH
Prikaži ovu nit -
-
34/ A sobering analysis of why large companies with a single major product have no incentive to incorporate an improvement (even a large one) to a single part of that product.pic.twitter.com/ThQnWOGBsd
Prikaži ovu nit -
35/ I feel like *accidental* blackouts don't happen anymore in developed countries. One of those subtle but big improvements.pic.twitter.com/ryZZe4XGzO
Prikaži ovu nit -
36/ Nuance about commercialization. I feel like *commercialize all the things!* can be as dangerous as *commercialization taints your soul!*pic.twitter.com/feRITNFw49
Prikaži ovu nit -
37/ Now this was a


moment - the assertion that patents aren't actually there to reward an inventor. Instead it's to give a venture captialist incentive to *fund* the inventor.
Still mentally masticating this one.pic.twitter.com/V3cPhQbIuz
Prikaži ovu nit -
38/ I'm *very* hesitant to use the B word. But if there was actually a good way of encoding what was new about an invention - what constraints it relaxed and which constraint it had, might that be a place for (furtively looks back and forth and whispers) Blockchain?pic.twitter.com/IO7fTxNcOU
Prikaži ovu nit -
39/ The level of meta self-awareness here is off the charts. Also a lesson for a lot of people talking about AI today ...pic.twitter.com/uIbrIqKgfM
Prikaži ovu nit - Još 17 drugih odgovora
Novi razgovor -
Čini se da učitavanje traje već neko vrijeme.
Twitter je možda preopterećen ili ima kratkotrajnih poteškoća u radu. Pokušajte ponovno ili potražite dodatne informacije u odjeljku Status Twittera.
