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Patrick McKenzie

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I work for the Internet, at @stripe, mostly on accelerating startups. Opinions here are my own.

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    Patrick McKenzie‏ @patio11 Jan 10
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    Patrick McKenzie Retweeted Paul Graham

    Many solved problems aren’t. The amount of exploitable inefficiency in the world is a) staggeringly large and b) likely increasing absolutely. It is surprisingly hard to get people to do things that are in their obvious best interest. Human network microstructure is underratedhttps://twitter.com/paulg/status/1215673204125073408 …

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    What has your work taught you that other people don't realize?
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      1. Patrick McKenzie‏ @patio11 Jan 10
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        And for these and other reasons: the Internet is probably the most important thing humanity every accomplished except things that were on the critical path to the Internet. It is underrated by everyone, almost certainly including me.

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      2. Patrick OShaughnessy‏Verified account @patrick_oshag Jan 10
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        Can you say more about the last one?

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      3. Patrick McKenzie‏ @patio11 Jan 10
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        Replying to @patrick_oshag

        Probably worth an essay, but examples are: A substantial portion of the way a company makes decisions is not their policies nor their formal structure for making decisions but it is the social microstructure of the company, which is often confused with but is not the org chart.

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      2. Petar Lalović‏ @PetarLalovic Jan 10
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        What are your top 5 exploitable inefficiencies?

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      3. Patrick McKenzie‏ @patio11 Jan 10
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        Replying to @PetarLalovic

        I’d have to really think to come up with an ordinal ranking, but in terms of repeated salience: Geeks underprice themselves. Cron jobs and SaaS apps are underdeployed. Automatic email is scandalously underdeployed. “School” is not near efficient frontier for learning. Coffee.

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      2. Sai Teja Pratap‏ @yesTeaPea Jan 10
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        > It is surprisingly hard to get people to do things that are in their obvious best interest. Can you give an example?

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      3. Patrick McKenzie‏ @patio11 Jan 10
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        Replying to @yesTeaPea

        “What portion of 83(b) elections available in the world are actually filed in a timely fashion?”

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      2. coolassdude69420‏ @coolassdude6941 Jan 11
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        > It is surprisingly hard to get people to do things that are in their obvious best interest. in their obvious best interest as a _group_ or individually?

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      3. Patrick McKenzie‏ @patio11 Jan 11
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        Yes.

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      2. Wilfred Hughes‏ @_wilfredh Jan 11
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        Could you clarify microstructure? How does that differ from conventional building relationships?

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      3. Patrick McKenzie‏ @patio11 Jan 11
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        It matters who is 1, 2, N degrees away on relationships; it matters how tightly the graph is interconnected versus peers; it matters *how* the communications happen (e.g. what medium); it matters what you would and would not expect from a relationship similar to one elsewhere.

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