Luca's Twitter Threads

2024 – Q2

  • Reversing the arrow of time
  • On ingroup vs outgroup
  • The contribution ladder exercise
  • Beyond the checklist
  • Educated societies
  • An interesting quiz
  • Why playing the lottery would be a bad idea even if it had a positive expected value
  • On optimizing time horizons
  • 5 thoughts on management

    • 2024 – Q1

  • What's too little and what's too much
  • Feedback must be actionable

    • 2023 – October

  • The ethics of management consulting
  • 5 steps to teach prioritization
  • 5 tips to improve how you give feedback
  • 5 steps to bring clarity within your team

    • 2023 – September

  • The battle of Karánsebes, 1788
  • Highlights from the first chapter of "Best Practices for Operational Excellence"

    • 2023 – August

  • Races to the bottom

    • 2023 – July

  • On Cringe HR activities

    • 2023 – May

  • Five advices for graduates looking for a good job
  • Random distributions (when R doesn't mean correlation)
  • On wealth taxes

    • 2023 – April

  • Autistic perception visualized
  • Four tips to improve your slides
  • Two reasons people don't listen to your feedback

    • 2023 – March

  • Higher education in 2023

    • 2023 – February

  • Prompt engineering... for managers
  • 15 management quotes
  • Quantitative vs qualitative decision-making

    • 2023 – January

  • On mosquito eradication and its risks
  • Audits should be to catch the good, not just the bad
  • Common prioritization mistakes
  • Why do incentives only work on some people?

    • 2022 – December

  • Building trust as a manager
  • Twitter moderation: how it should be done
  • Avoid shortcuts for engagement

    • 2022 – November

  • My notes from Taleb's lecture in Torino
  • Ten tips to become a better presenter
  • On free speech
  • How to make team meetings more engaging and effective
  • How to communicate more concretely
  • Quiz: coaching your subordinates on providing better ideas

    • 2022 – August

  • Building personal judgement in your employees
  • Training people on doing things right, not just the right things
  • Six opinions on managing remote teams
  • Common mistakes in managing remote teams

    • 2022 – July

  • Zero COVID
  • Optimizing your life
  • How to ask for ideas & suggestions
  • Increasing hospitals' efficiency
  • Mediocre vs great managers
  • Improving the quality of your meetings
  • A corporate event that actually increases teamwork
  • 10 actions you can take today to be a better manager for your employees
  • The role of a manager from the employees' point of view
  • Clinging to the past

    • 2022 – June

  • The very important never feels urgent
  • The implicit rules of the game
  • AI, the killer writer
  • Core Values and costs
  • Mosquitoes are preventable
  • Highlights and comments on Zack Kanter's annual letter
  • 5 false beliefs in people management
  • 12 tips to become a better manager overnight
  • 12 common operational problems
  • Management by fairness
  • Making employees more effective
  • 5 Tips to manage remote employees
  • How does AGI work in the human brain

    • 2022 – May

  • Asking questions
  • Ergodicity, cooperation, and evolution
  • 13 red flags a scientist might be a charlatan
  • 10 ways to kill creativity as a manager
  • 13 ways to increase student debt
  • 7 signs a management consultant is a charlatan
  • Management consulting and behavioral observation
  • 10 signs an epidemiologist is a charlatan
  • 10 ways to kill motivation as a manager
  • Counterfactuals

    • 2022 – April

  • People management quiz
  • Why do masks seem not to work
  • The Planner and the Gatekeeper
  • Autistic perception

    • 2022 – February

  • The Italian 110% scheme
  • On face masks

    • 2022 – January

  • The Herd Immunity mirage
  • Endemic diseases
  • Excess Mortality in Italy (part 1)
  • Excess Mortality in Italy (part 2)
  • The Expected Value of breaking the law
  • A thread on herd immunity
  • The first chapter of the second edition of my book "Ergodicity"

    • 2021 – December

  • My books of 2021
  • My videos of 2021
  • COVID herd immunity progress in Italy
  • Omicron expected deaths

    • 2021 – November

  • 8 red flags that you're dealing with a bad boss
  • PRE-mortems
  • Too much micromanagement, too little management

    • 2021 – October

  • One year of Roam Books
  • Education and system design
  • On points of view and polarization

    • 2021 – September

  • Why it's wrong to make analogies with antibiotic resistance re: COVID, and why vaccines do not create variants

    • 2021 – August

  • Giving better feedback
  • Common fallacies re: COVID breakthrough cases

    • 2021 – July

  • Do vaccines increase the risk of variants?
  • Pain is not a signal of damage but of vulnerability
  • Tips to avoid credit card fraud
  • A visual framework for antifragility
  • On narrative fallacies and soccer penalties

    • 2021 – June

  • A thread of threads on ergodicity
  • Writing Roam Books (rBooks)
  • Group incentives

    • 2021 – May

  • Writing & publishing Roam Books, the easy way
  • Be clear about what makes you angry
  • What fines can teach about management
  • The 3 rules of effective incentives
  • Getting core values adopted

    • 2021 – April

  • Why managers micromanage
  • Behavioral confabulations
  • Five reasons organizations fail to get core values adopted
  • The pyramid of risk
  • Capillarity
  • The distributed brain

    • 2021 – March

  • Eagles dying and complex systems
  • Two questions regarding the pandemic
  • Theoretical vs practical skin in the game
  • On irrational behavior (excerpts from The Control Heuristic)
  • Reopening with CO2 detectors
  • On management (excerpts from Best Practices for Operational Excellence)
  • Fatigue and antifragility
  • Ergodicity and the tragedy of the commons
  • The reasons for irrational behavior
  • Problems with consulting
  • Curation 2.0

    • 2021 – February

  • Is Autism a two-tailed spectrum?
  • Trolley problems
  • Thoughts on herd immunity
  • Coin-flip bets and why people (correctly) refuse them
  • The hidden side of non-ergodicity

    • 2021 – January

  • How to deliver memorable presentations
  • The importance of high-res maps to understand the pandemic
  • An experiment in empathy
  • On principles
  • Thoughts on censorship
  • Problems with readiness reports
  • Semantic wars
  • Fractal deployment
  • My top 10 threads of 2020
  • On the importance of defaults on education
  • On the opportunity costs of teaching Latin

    • 2019 – Q4

  • Ergodicity and antifragility
  • On working long hours
  • Exposure dynamics
  • 17 things you should know before your first day at the office
  • Adaptation dynamics
  • Adaptation mechanics: how things adapt
  • Damage mechanics: how things break
  • The rationale of risk-taking
  • How good policies and technologies get adopted
  • Trust-as-a-service
  • Getting Core Values adopted
  • Applications of the Fence Paradox to real-world policies
  • Morality and ergodicity
  • The false efficiency of centralization
  • Redundancy: good or bad?
  • The bottom-up manifesto
  • Getting AI/ML to understand context
  • Thoughts on ergodicity
  • The dynamics of the antifragile

    • 2019 – Q3

  • Anger and identity
  • Visualizing autistic perception
  • Contextualization in the human brain
  • Ergodicity
  • The path to irrelevance
  • The main obstacle to our future self
  • Ego and future self
  • The iteration criteria for predictions

    • 2019 – H1

  • The purpose of emotions
  • How matrixes are useful in the real world and what they represent
  • The evolution of educations costs
  • Intuitive processes in the brain
  • The scope and limitations of political and economic ideas
  • A list of common confabulations
  • Urban planning and localism
  • Why AI has learning disabilities
  • Fractals & prosperity
  • The need for borders
  • How our brain doesn't work as we think
  • The Toyota Production System (TPS)
  • 10 Theses on Education
  • Capitalism and Socialism aren't what people think they are
  • The need for independence
  • Rules to Understand the World
  • The Fence Paradox
  • Internal Karma
  • Why efficiency only makes sense in a few restricted fields
  • The Fundamental Principle of Human Behavior
  • Why often people care more about plausibility than truth
  • Why evil necessitates admissibility

    • 2018 and earlier

  • Principles to understand our mind
  • You can work to solve your problems, and see them coming back tomorrow, or you can work to resolve the sources of your problems, and never see them again
  • Debt and optionality in life
  • Marginal value
  • All bad decisions in life arise from having optimized for the wrong metric
  • What got you here won't get you there