John Collison
speaker
6,048 appearances
22 recordings
1 series
first heard Jun 2025
last heard 5 Feb
John Collison’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Go work somewhere that's very demanding.
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As Casey is describing, and as we've heard a lot about on Cheeky Pint, prototyping is easy, but production is hard.
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A surprisingly large slice of human progress comes down to reducing the time and cost of industrial production processes.
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In Stripe Press's newest book, The Origins of Efficiency, author Brian Potter breaks down precisely how that progress happens.
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He draws on a hundred years worth of research to explain the fundamental steps of a production process and how each can be made faster, cheaper, and more reliable.
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He includes detailed examples from steel and semiconductors to wind turbines and container shipping to Tesla and the Model T, and he discusses how the principles of production efficiency can be applied to domains like construction, medicine, and education, where much work remains to be done.
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And Brian should know.
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He's the author of the popular construction physics newsletter and worked for 15 years in the construction industry.
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The Origins of Efficiency just came out.
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You can buy it on press.stripe.com where we offer all Stripe Press books.
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Mm-hmm.
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How are you planning to
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But presumably that's not the the limit of your pants.
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Well in particular, the uh you know Bloom two sigma effect is one of the biggest effects in yeah education.
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Uh the idea that uh you get a way better
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You get way better outcomes with one on one tutoring focused on mastery learning, where you only progress through topics once the student has mastered the prior topic and you kinda move your way sequentially through things.
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And schools almost definitionally can't do that.
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They can't do that,
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Do you buy the um explanation on the uh falling fertility rates that we've just made it too expensive to have had kids?
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