What an awesome concept and implementation! Cheers to both of you! Solving DOD problems with tech. Boom!

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Cool conversation. Appreciate the insightful questions.

Great interview!!

Matt it was a pleasure working with you over the years and tds was a perfect storm of talent.

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He's talking about the principle of subsidiary. Anything that can be handled at the smallest level, typically should be.

Notes with brief comments: No asymmetric advantage based on access to information inside an organization -- cool. risk is someone could take info and do something that very much doesn't fit-- high trust culture required, but really, do humans want to work any other way than in a high trust culture? Empowering without resources and authority is a common pattern -- a great thing for a senior manager to notice and, frankly, an easy way to have a positive impact. Sorry, ever increasing tech surveillance is not the solution to public safety, surveillance destroys cultural trust. At the meta level, enacted algorithms and crime analysis always produce some injustice to people, and that cannot be explained away by arguments that justify such thinking by citing a higher degree of efficacy in whatever metrics are deemed the right ones, because injustice is, for lack of a better word, asymmetric. Get a handle on guns, always nurture economic on ramps, or dignity on ramps and eventually that's what will make the culture safer in a sustainable way that doesn't create more problems through the suffering created by too much cognitively inspired "overwriting" that will eventually prove inflexible and not a functional fit. (Most every idea or policy intervention "jumps the shark", none of us know how to have ideas or processes die at the right time after having served a positive purpose, conflict is the only way we know, and dialectical conflict is now 100% gamable through misinformation and amplification of that misinformation to produce a zero sum advantage for one side over another, regardless if the idea, or process, or show is useful to the whole culture) I'm old enough to have witnessed the entire tech revolution, from trs 80s and the original apples while I was in middle school until today. If there's one basic idea I'd like to communicate to people who work and thrive in this space is that tech's primary mission is to reify. Reifying is certainly creative, and it can have amazing positive outcomes for all of us, but it shouldn't be a primary source of emergent cultural solutions to help us all live well together. Tech cannot heal cultural entropy or cultural bad habits by creating surveillance "handicap ramps" to address mass cultural dysfunction such as too many guns. The first metaphor, I'm sure there are better ones, that pops into my head would be an individual who hasn't figured out some basic things about music being given amazing information and tools to make songs. Managing risk in uncertain times is the skill of sense making, and that is the emergent cultural skill that all humans have no choice but to get better at, because the existential threats are coming, boy are they, and decentralized collectively aligned action is the only way to address them. thanks!

let's imagine I was president, and I wanted to play with low cost creative ideas to figure out how to help Ukraine win. In other words, use things I can already requisition, because there's authorization for it. I would simply get some talented people who know how to work the acquistions speed game, and if we need to build pop up production facilities, so be it. Then as a directive with a once in a while live check in, I would just have people empowered to improve processes, because I'm giving them system and functional fit information that needs to be accounted for. That could happen pretty quickly, no?

zero zero trust hurts your own work flow and work force too much. Speaking as a person who needs to work at speed for my best ideas to get realized, there's nothing I hate more than idiot password or other security measures yucking my creative yum.

who has the authority to update work flows, one decision at a time? Bezos is great about how almost any decision can be reversed, so how can processes be improved one decision at a time? If it doesn't work, no big deal, back it out.

I can think of NO TIME in history that ANYONE thought international trade and commerce or even internal economies were divorced from geopolitics. Whereas all politics are local, one can say all economies are international.

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👍 enjoyed the honesty on different environments and characteristics of those successful or must have.

It's the same for every business. New managers implement drastic procedure changes without learning why things are done the wat they are. Time is money. First employees waste time making the changes, cleaning up the mess said changes create, and then undoing them. Instead of hiring a new manager, ask employees what changes thet would considr helpful to themselves. Making work easier makes workers more efficient sometimes its a simple thing like adding one piece of info for another dept, or changing the order so it's in sync with data entry.

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Downvoted. Stop talking about statist ideas within our fields of interest.

Bonnie E the G.O.A.T!

Great interview!