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Winston Weinberg

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
1528 total appearances

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The Knowledge Project
Winston Weinberg: Speed, Stress, and Better Decisions

And there's a couple of reasons for this.

The Knowledge Project
Winston Weinberg: Speed, Stress, and Better Decisions

One is the communication, like getting rid of communication gaps, because sometimes it was hard to tell if someone was good, because really what was happening is they had a lot of good ideas, but they couldn't communicate them, right?

The Knowledge Project
Winston Weinberg: Speed, Stress, and Better Decisions

I know so many people that are like geniuses, but they have such a hard time communicating to other people.

The Knowledge Project
Winston Weinberg: Speed, Stress, and Better Decisions

And the coding models are incredible at this.

The Knowledge Project
Winston Weinberg: Speed, Stress, and Better Decisions

I'll give you a really simple example.

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Winston Weinberg: Speed, Stress, and Better Decisions

Something I do a lot now is the models have gotten so good that I can use a really complex, like something that's really complex and legal, right?

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Winston Weinberg: Speed, Stress, and Better Decisions

Like multi-jurisdictional fund formation, and you have to do like the, how you do tax exemptions and all these things.

The Knowledge Project
Winston Weinberg: Speed, Stress, and Better Decisions

I can just say, can you give me an example in engineering that's similar to this?

The Knowledge Project
Winston Weinberg: Speed, Stress, and Better Decisions

And the models are so good that they'll come up with like a one pager that is like a perfect comparison.

The Knowledge Project
Winston Weinberg: Speed, Stress, and Better Decisions

That's, I know like kind of a silly example, but there's so many ways to do translation now.

The Knowledge Project
Winston Weinberg: Speed, Stress, and Better Decisions

And because there's so many ways to do translation, you can really see like who's coming up with good ideas.

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Winston Weinberg: Speed, Stress, and Better Decisions

And that's maybe one reason.

The Knowledge Project
Winston Weinberg: Speed, Stress, and Better Decisions

The second reason is you just don't need to communicate.

The Knowledge Project
Winston Weinberg: Speed, Stress, and Better Decisions

Like you can just go and on the weekend, on a Sunday, if you're a really good engineer, you can just go build something and then just shoot it off into the general slack and people can see what it is.

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Winston Weinberg: Speed, Stress, and Better Decisions

And so you don't even need those communication barriers, right?

The Knowledge Project
Winston Weinberg: Speed, Stress, and Better Decisions

Some of the best producing people on earth are terrible at communicating and terrible at working with others.

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Winston Weinberg: Speed, Stress, and Better Decisions

And a lot of what you sometimes have to do as a company is how do you create a situation for those folks to succeed?

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Winston Weinberg: Speed, Stress, and Better Decisions

because they can't manage up you know they don't look as prestigious they maybe not don't have like the resume that everyone likes um they aren't as good at communication they can be hard to work with but they're geniuses they're like incredible they're so good at what they do and how do you create an environment for that the coding models are going to make it so that those folks can do better like better than they've ever done before what do you think of the second and third order consequences of slight variations in skill being leverageable to a degree we've never seen before

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Winston Weinberg: Speed, Stress, and Better Decisions

I think it's the same thing that happens in sports, right?

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Winston Weinberg: Speed, Stress, and Better Decisions

So like, in sports, being a little bit faster compounds, right?