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    1. Patrick Collison‏Verified account @patrickc Aug 26

      What are the best examples of group (especially large group) projects conducted extraordinarily quickly? P-80 Shooting Star, Celera & HGP, initial development of radar, maybe "Please Please Me" and "Led Zeppelin" albums...pic.twitter.com/lUlvATp5zA

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      Patrick Collison‏Verified account @patrickc Aug 26

      The Golden Gate Bridge was built in 4.2 years. Starting in 2009, the replacement of 1.5 miles of road just south of it took 8 years.

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        2. Sebastian Bensusan‏ @sebasbensu Aug 26
          Replying to @patrickc

          The movie business reliably completes projects of $100M / 1000 people under a year. Underrated as an example for software project management.

          2 replies 2 retweets 38 likes
        3. Patrick Collison‏Verified account @patrickc Aug 26
          Replying to @sebasbensu

          Especially Steven Soderbergh...

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        2. Daniel Katzew‏ @DanielK235 Aug 26
          Replying to @patrickc

          Empire State Building was built in barely over a year

          4 replies 5 retweets 70 likes
        3. Star Simpson‏ @starsandrobots Aug 26
          Replying to @DanielK235 @patrickc

          Was designed in under 2 weeks and nothing like it had ever been built before!

          0 replies 0 retweets 17 likes
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        2. Gavin Skelly‏ @skellier1 Aug 26
          Replying to @patrickc

          The colosseum was built in 8 years imagine anything of that craftsmanship being built in such a time nowadays bureaucracy at its finest

          1 reply 0 retweets 8 likes
        3. Bhavin Tolia‏ @BhavinTolia Aug 26
          Replying to @skellier1 @patrickc

          Ajanta Ellora Caves & the Kailasha Temple in India. Far more intricate. Single block of granite - Carved out of a Mountain with literally astronomical precision.

          1 reply 0 retweets 9 likes
        4. Gavin Skelly‏ @skellier1 Aug 26
          Replying to @BhavinTolia @patrickc

          I just wiki'd what you said they look unbelievable there will never be anything built like them again !

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        2. Semil‏Verified account @semil Aug 26
          Replying to @patrickc

          the GGB story is one Thiel uses to demonstrate we may stagnate as a nation. hard to argue with.

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        3. Adam Michela‏ @soopa Aug 26
          Replying to @semil @patrickc

          Being fair, 09 construction was non-trivial and had post-recession financing issues. Original had similar problems spanning ~2 decades. Only happened when founder of BoA stepped in to finance “for the community”. Why much in SF bears the Giannini name. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amadeo_Giannini …

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        2. andrew‏Verified account @AndrewChamings Aug 26
          Replying to @patrickc @mattyglesias

          But people died building the Golden Gate Bridge

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        3. ꙨꙪꙬꙮꙬꙪꙨ‏ @grulgh Aug 26
          Replying to @AndrewChamings @patrickc @mattyglesias

          Almost all in a single accident, near completion, that the safety netting (an innovation for the time) could not fully prevent. A tragedy but it didn't happen because they were in a hurry.

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        2. Anna Gát‏ @TheAnnaGat Aug 26
          Replying to @patrickc

          Why?

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        3. Yet Another Ryan‏ @so_many_ryans Aug 26
          Replying to @TheAnnaGat @patrickc

          Regulatory barriers.

          2 replies 0 retweets 2 likes
        4. glengarry‏ @glengarry Aug 26
          Replying to @so_many_ryans @TheAnnaGat @patrickc

          has far more to do with the fact that people are driving on that road every day, whereas nobody drove on the bridge while it was being built

          3 replies 0 retweets 28 likes
        5. Yet Another Ryan‏ @so_many_ryans Aug 26
          Replying to @glengarry @TheAnnaGat @patrickc

          Roads and bridges in use around the world don't take 8 yrs to modify. Something different in California. Highways generally in the state take longer than rest of nation and cost more per mile than similar elsewhere. Hwy 85 was a shit show

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        2. Aristarchus of Samos‏ @Adonis6782 Aug 26
          Replying to @patrickc

          The Empire State Building. Less than 14 months. Just remarkable!! That was in 1930..

          2 replies 0 retweets 7 likes
        3. David Petersen‏ @typesfaster Aug 26
          Replying to @Adonis6782 @patrickc

          To be fair, buildings were a lot simpler in those days. Building the exoskeleton is still very fast.

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        2. Patrick McKenzie‏ @patio11 Aug 26
          Replying to @patrickc

          Repair efforts in the wake of the 2011 Tohoku earthquake mobilized several hundred thousand people and, while revitalization is a long-term project, some of them hit timelines that seem miraculous. A photo I'll never forget: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1369307/Japan-tsunami-earthquake-Road-repaired-SIX-days-destroyed.html … (Widely reported at time.)

          2 replies 1 retweet 19 likes
        3. Kevin Riggle‏ @kevinriggle Aug 26
          Replying to @patio11 @patrickc

          I was about to suggest that perhaps greenfield development is always easier and faster than sustaining development but... maybe not. Wow

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        4. Patrick McKenzie‏ @patio11 Aug 26
          Replying to @kevinriggle @patrickc

          You can imagine the conversations: “I can’t get concrete because the road behind me is out. We’re breaking half of our safety protocols. Two teams pulling three shifts on one off.” “Yeah but we need this road for relief supplies.” “I didn’t say I was slipping the schedule did I?”

          1 reply 0 retweets 4 likes
        5. Kevin Riggle‏ @kevinriggle Aug 26
          Replying to @patio11 @patrickc

          You'd know better than I, but I'd actually be a little surprised if they violated their safety protocols—from what I understand of Japanese engineering culture (eg. the Fukushima response) I hear a bone-deep understanding that that's a false economy

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        6. Patrick McKenzie‏ @patio11 Aug 26
          Replying to @kevinriggle @patrickc

          I think there were a lot of conversations that month of the general flavor : “Protocol requires that we have two people doing nothing but watching for oncoming traffic.” “Where are those two people and where is the oncoming traffic? Building #*{*#+ing roads and waiting for them”

          1 reply 0 retweets 4 likes
        7. Kevin Riggle‏ @kevinriggle Aug 26
          Replying to @patio11 @patrickc

          HAHA that's a fair point. Goes to the point the safety engineering folks make about humans being the adaptable part of any complex system—we know we can relax these constraints in an emergency because we have a really good mental model of the system

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        8. Kevin Riggle‏ @kevinriggle Aug 26
          Replying to @kevinriggle @patio11 @patrickc

          (IIRC Fukushima e.g. kept running shifts as normal even as things were breaking down, as was safety policy, in order to minimize any one person's radiation exposure)

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