# Luca Dellanna's top Twitter threads Note: I stopped curating this page halfway through 2024, as I started taking my most popular threads to the [blog](https://luca-dellanna.com/blog). I am still very active on [Twitter](https://x.com/DellAnnaLuca), though. ## 2024 – Q2 - [Reversing the arrow of time](https://x.com/DellAnnaLuca/status/1794179086065217743) - [On ingroup vs outgroup](https://x.com/DellAnnaLuca/status/1806036301009011054) - [The contribution ladder exercise](https://x.com/DellAnnaLuca/status/1777705506519302588) - [Beyond the checklist](https://x.com/DellAnnaLuca/status/1777397247183048727) - [Educated societies](https://x.com/DellAnnaLuca/status/1781725768093184201) - [An interesting quiz](https://x.com/DellAnnaLuca/status/1784964235912462512) - [Why playing the lottery would be a bad idea even if it had a positive expected value](https://x.com/DellAnnaLuca/status/1791472499622125975) - [On optimizing time horizons](https://x.com/DellAnnaLuca/status/1807037392307552546) - [5 thoughts on management](https://x.com/DellAnnaLuca/status/1801619360513200546) ## 2024 – Q1 - [What's too little and what's too much](https://x.com/DellAnnaLuca/status/1756682198391115834) - [Feedback must be actionable](https://twitter.com/DellAnnaLuca/status/1757098494270353483) ## 2023 – October - [The ethics of management consulting](https://twitter.com/DellAnnaLuca/status/1718655181355933832) - [5 steps to teach prioritization](https://twitter.com/DellAnnaLuca/status/1717220791866347820) - [5 tips to improve how you give feedback](https://twitter.com/DellAnnaLuca/status/1716858378629329007) - [5 steps to bring clarity within your team](https://twitter.com/DellAnnaLuca/status/1716496002272870671) ## 2023 – September - [The battle of Karánsebes, 1788](https://twitter.com/DellAnnaLuca/status/1704880924759036052) - [Highlights from the first chapter of "Best Practices for Operational Excellence"](https://twitter.com/DellAnnaLuca/status/1706349127028887596) ## 2023 – August - [Races to the bottom](https://twitter.com/DellAnnaLuca/status/1691091053569527808?s=20) ## 2023 – July - [On Cringe HR activities](https://twitter.com/DellAnnaLuca/status/1683695436656259072) ## 2023 – May - [Five advices for graduates looking for a good job](https://twitter.com/DellAnnaLuca/status/1655939429180280835) - [Random distributions (when R doesn't mean correlation)](https://twitter.com/DellAnnaLuca/status/1659953727657193472) - [On wealth taxes](https://twitter.com/DellAnnaLuca/status/1662111839977893888) ## 2023 – April - [Autistic perception visualized](https://twitter.com/DellAnnaLuca/status/1642500886231683072) - [Four tips to improve your slides](https://twitter.com/DellAnnaLuca/status/1646154966824787969) - [Two reasons people don't listen to your feedback](https://twitter.com/DellAnnaLuca/status/1648703217344339969) ## 2023 – March - [Higher education in 2023](https://twitter.com/DellAnnaLuca/status/1636400682906566657) ## 2023 – February - [Prompt engineering... for managers](https://twitter.com/DellAnnaLuca/status/1626585867010838530) - [15 management quotes](https://twitter.com/DellAnnaLuca/status/1625189314064969729) - [Quantitative vs qualitative decision-making](https://twitter.com/DellAnnaLuca/status/1625151564129386501) ## 2023 – January - [On mosquito eradication and its risks](https://twitter.com/DellAnnaLuca/status/1610654904334553094) - [Audits should be to catch the good, not just the bad](https://twitter.com/DellAnnaLuca/status/1615827633367035910) - [Common prioritization mistakes](https://twitter.com/DellAnnaLuca/status/1618365603831746560) - [Why do incentives only work on some people?](https://twitter.com/DellAnnaLuca/status/1618983421468102658) ## 2022 – December - [Building trust as a manager](https://twitter.com/DellAnnaLuca/status/1608564782554288128) - [Twitter moderation: how it should be done](https://twitter.com/DellAnnaLuca/status/1603757890203811844?s=20&t=9yDfeiCO5XQTICxqNupzLw) - [Avoid shortcuts for engagement](https://twitter.com/DellAnnaLuca/status/1600146802279260160?s=20&t=92P35VsQoiWIJoRwJGQ5FQ) ## 2022 – November - [My notes from Taleb's lecture in Torino](https://twitter.com/DellAnnaLuca/status/1590790469339865088) - [Ten tips to become a better presenter](https://twitter.com/DellAnnaLuca/status/1597285447125716992) - [On free speech](https://twitter.com/DellAnnaLuca/status/1594396520379748352?s=20&t=f2XbLFsvj4gCqUOTUFVs2Q) - [How to make team meetings more engaging and effective](https://twitter.com/DellAnnaLuca/status/1598334862548574209) - [How to communicate more concretely](https://twitter.com/DellAnnaLuca/status/1599822163250249728) - [Quiz: coaching your subordinates on providing better ideas](https://twitter.com/DellAnnaLuca/status/1598735006158888960) ## 2022 – August - [Building personal judgement in your employees](https://twitter.com/DellAnnaLuca/status/1562065881961619456) - [Training people on doing things right, not just the right things](https://twitter.com/DellAnnaLuca/status/1562466015740452864) - [Six opinions on managing remote teams](https://twitter.com/DellAnnaLuca/status/1563510898206969856) - [Common mistakes in managing remote teams](https://twitter.com/DellAnnaLuca/status/1564217051245187072) ## 2022 – July - [Zero COVID](https://twitter.com/DellAnnaLuca/status/1553046898272980992) - [Optimizing your life](https://twitter.com/DellAnnaLuca/status/1552279439148326913) - [How to ask for ideas & suggestions](https://twitter.com/DellAnnaLuca/status/1551233092244738050) - [Increasing hospitals' efficiency](https://twitter.com/DellAnnaLuca/status/1550477018348679168) - [Mediocre vs great managers](https://twitter.com/DellAnnaLuca/status/1550341122035052546) - [Improving the quality of your meetings](https://twitter.com/DellAnnaLuca/status/1550205227025936384) - [A corporate event that actually increases teamwork](https://twitter.com/DellAnnaLuca/status/1550122181425696771) - [10 actions you can take today to be a better manager for your employees](https://twitter.com/DellAnnaLuca/status/1549397405782736900) - [The role of a manager from the employees' point of view](https://twitter.com/DellAnnaLuca/status/1547925203077853186) - [Clinging to the past](https://twitter.com/DellAnnaLuca/status/1542874425145511940) ## 2022 – June - [The very important never feels urgent](https://twitter.com/DellAnnaLuca/status/1542512035367309313) - [The implicit rules of the game](https://twitter.com/DellAnnaLuca/status/1542187400356515840) - [AI, the killer writer](https://twitter.com/DellAnnaLuca/status/1541424872873553921) - [Core Values and costs](https://twitter.com/DellAnnaLuca/status/1541047593777541120) - [Mosquitoes are preventable](https://twitter.com/DellAnnaLuca/status/1538850407174180866) - [Highlights and comments on Zack Kanter's annual letter](https://twitter.com/DellAnnaLuca/status/1535989434780241920) - [5 false beliefs in people management](https://twitter.com/DellAnnaLuca/status/1535120830862008321) - [12 tips to become a better manager overnight](https://twitter.com/DellAnnaLuca/status/1534866663128338433) - [12 common operational problems](https://twitter.com/DellAnnaLuca/status/1534178507248455681) - [Management by fairness](https://twitter.com/DellAnnaLuca/status/1533852475144318977) - [Making employees more effective](https://twitter.com/DellAnnaLuca/status/1532727569849516032) - [5 Tips to manage remote employees](https://twitter.com/DellAnnaLuca/status/1532365174446755841) - [How does AGI work in the human brain](https://twitter.com/DellAnnaLuca/status/1531989476435582976) ## 2022 – May - [Asking questions](https://twitter.com/DellAnnaLuca/status/1530047401033015296) - [Ergodicity, cooperation, and evolution](https://twitter.com/DellAnnaLuca/status/1529793224939737088) - [13 red flags a scientist might be a charlatan](https://twitter.com/DellAnnaLuca/status/1526604723754700800) - [10 ways to kill creativity as a manager](https://twitter.com/DellAnnaLuca/status/1526204585928339461) - [13 ways to increase student debt](https://twitter.com/DellAnnaLuca/status/1525130560363896833) - [7 signs a management consultant is a charlatan](https://twitter.com/DellAnnaLuca/status/1524792779334819856) - [Management consulting and behavioral observation](https://twitter.com/DellAnnaLuca/status/1526242331665395712) - [10 signs an epidemiologist is a charlatan](https://twitter.com/DellAnnaLuca/status/1524375844193333248) - [10 ways to kill motivation as a manager](https://twitter.com/DellAnnaLuca/status/1524031600761077761) - [Counterfactuals](https://twitter.com/DellAnnaLuca/status/1522609621042536449) ## 2022 – April - [People management quiz](https://twitter.com/DellAnnaLuca/status/1519681606625087488) - [Why do masks seem not to work](https://twitter.com/DellAnnaLuca/status/1517094585658273792) - [The Planner and the Gatekeeper](https://twitter.com/DellAnnaLuca/status/1512433849258577927) - [Autistic perception](https://twitter.com/DellAnnaLuca/status/1510974488279601155) ## 2022 – February - [The Italian 110% scheme](https://twitter.com/DellAnnaLuca/status/1496517071823278080) - [On face masks](https://twitter.com/DellAnnaLuca/status/1491470302290714627) ## 2022 – January - [The Herd Immunity mirage](https://twitter.com/DellAnnaLuca/status/1478049340526673920) - [Endemic diseases](https://twitter.com/DellAnnaLuca/status/1480234170940985345) - [Excess Mortality in Italy (part 1)](https://twitter.com/DellAnnaLuca/status/1479899745569017857) - [Excess Mortality in Italy (part 2)](https://twitter.com/DellAnnaLuca/status/1480183838097567746) - [The Expected Value of breaking the law](https://twitter.com/DellAnnaLuca/status/1485909669306671108) - [A thread on herd immunity](https://twitter.com/DellAnnaLuca/status/1486421502216085511) - [The first chapter of the second edition of my book "Ergodicity"](https://twitter.com/DellAnnaLuca/status/1480548329956200456) ## 2021 – December - [My books of 2021](https://twitter.com/DellAnnaLuca/status/1475930813082468360) - [My videos of 2021](https://twitter.com/DellAnnaLuca/status/1475872928646320128) - [COVID herd immunity progress in Italy](https://twitter.com/DellAnnaLuca/status/1475885520093777921) - [Omicron expected deaths](https://twitter.com/DellAnnaLuca/status/1470374964146569217) ## 2021 – November - [8 red flags that you're dealing with a bad boss](https://twitter.com/DellAnnaLuca/status/1457722564520775688?s=20) - [PRE-mortems](https://twitter.com/DellAnnaLuca/status/1460267123180449792) - [Too much micromanagement, too little management](https://twitter.com/DellAnnaLuca/status/1458853283854880768) ## 2021 – October - [One year of Roam Books](https://twitter.com/DellAnnaLuca/status/1455171522998378499) - [Education and system design](https://twitter.com/DellAnnaLuca/status/1453077728542924800) - [On points of view and polarization](https://twitter.com/DellAnnaLuca/status/1450826421690007552) ## 2021 – September - [Why it's wrong to make analogies with antibiotic resistance re: COVID, and why vaccines do not create variants](https://twitter.com/DellAnnaLuca/status/1436678418255409154) ## 2021 – August - [Giving better feedback](https://twitter.com/DellAnnaLuca/status/1428722585915645952) - [Common fallacies re: COVID breakthrough cases](https://twitter.com/DellAnnaLuca/status/1422594290979467265?s=20) ## 2021 – July - [Do vaccines increase the risk of variants?](https://twitter.com/DellAnnaLuca/status/1418537379678220290) - [Pain is not a signal of damage but of vulnerability](https://twitter.com/DellAnnaLuca/status/1417525977358299136) - [Tips to avoid credit card fraud](https://twitter.com/DellAnnaLuca/status/1416814225792503810) - [A visual framework for antifragility](https://twitter.com/DellAnnaLuca/status/1414990782583382017) - [On narrative fallacies and soccer penalties](https://twitter.com/DellAnnaLuca/status/1414587325586227202?s=20) ## 2021 – June - [A thread of threads on ergodicity](https://twitter.com/DellAnnaLuca/status/1403286020418797571?s=20) - [Writing Roam Books (rBooks)](https://twitter.com/DellAnnaLuca/status/1401201397266206720?s=20) - [Group incentives](https://twitter.com/DellAnnaLuca/status/1408383889698168833?s=20) ## 2021 – May - [Writing & publishing Roam Books, the easy way](https://twitter.com/DellAnnaLuca/status/1401201397266206720?s=20) - [Be clear about what makes you angry](https://twitter.com/DellAnnaLuca/status/1397218487601356805?s=20) - [What fines can teach about management](https://twitter.com/DellAnnaLuca/status/1392869745305792520?s=20) - [The 3 rules of effective incentives](https://twitter.com/DellAnnaLuca/status/1392817382096359438?s=20) - [Getting core values adopted](https://twitter.com/DellAnnaLuca/status/1389215667719659521?s=20) ## 2021 – April - [Why managers micromanage](https://twitter.com/DellAnnaLuca/status/1387761617039990787?s=20) - [Behavioral confabulations](https://twitter.com/DellAnnaLuca/status/1384117083714113540?s=20) - [Five reasons organizations fail to get core values adopted](https://twitter.com/DellAnnaLuca/status/1382697719630811136?s=20) - [The pyramid of risk](https://twitter.com/DellAnnaLuca/status/1379788018903568388?s=20) - [Capillarity](https://twitter.com/DellAnnaLuca/status/1380046276830638081?s=20) - [The distributed brain](https://twitter.com/DellAnnaLuca/status/1377304940994031624?s=20) ## 2021 – March - [Eagles dying and complex systems](https://twitter.com/DellAnnaLuca/status/1375337459287007235?s=20) - [Two questions regarding the pandemic](https://twitter.com/DellAnnaLuca/status/1374741767858307072?s=20) - [Theoretical vs practical skin in the game](https://twitter.com/DellAnnaLuca/status/1373197330825023488?s=20) - [On irrational behavior (excerpts from The Control Heuristic)](https://twitter.com/DellAnnaLuca/status/1372963583802421255?s=20) - [Reopening with CO2 detectors](https://twitter.com/DellAnnaLuca/status/1372895651743346691?s=20) - [On management (excerpts from Best Practices for Operational Excellence)](https://twitter.com/DellAnnaLuca/status/1368474561453449217?s=20) - [Fatigue and antifragility](https://twitter.com/DellAnnaLuca/status/1370087237870837763?s=20) - [Ergodicity and the tragedy of the commons](https://twitter.com/DellAnnaLuca/status/1370042493870424070?s=20) - [The reasons for irrational behavior](https://twitter.com/DellAnnaLuca/status/1368987378879238149?s=20) - [Problems with consulting](https://twitter.com/DellAnnaLuca/status/1368619958599573507?s=20) - [Curation 2.0](https://twitter.com/DellAnnaLuca/status/1367135046042288128?s=20) ## 2021 – February - [Is Autism a two-tailed spectrum?](https://twitter.com/DellAnnaLuca/status/1366416596630188037) - [Trolley problems](https://twitter.com/DellAnnaLuca/status/1363949185150693376?s=20) - [Thoughts on herd immunity](https://twitter.com/DellAnnaLuca/status/1362748773701681156?s=20) - [Coin-flip bets and why people (correctly) refuse them](https://twitter.com/DellAnnaLuca/status/1361299219215228932?s=20) - [The hidden side of non-ergodicity](https://twitter.com/DellAnnaLuca/status/1360243556095557636?s=20) ## 2021 – January - [How to deliver memorable presentations](https://twitter.com/DellAnnaLuca/status/1351207724198068258?s=20) - [The importance of high-res maps to understand the pandemic](https://twitter.com/DellAnnaLuca/status/1351166373905444865?s=20) - [An experiment in empathy](https://twitter.com/DellAnnaLuca/status/1347564762041884680?s=20) - [On principles](https://twitter.com/DellAnnaLuca/status/1347534773426786307?s=20) - [Thoughts on censorship](https://twitter.com/DellAnnaLuca/status/1347400135261761538?s=20) - [Problems with readiness reports](https://twitter.com/DellAnnaLuca/status/1346869557835784192?s=20) - [Semantic wars](https://twitter.com/DellAnnaLuca/status/1346670326617403393?s=20) - [Fractal deployment](https://twitter.com/DellAnnaLuca/status/1346341809983811584?s=20) - [My top 10 threads of 2020](https://twitter.com/DellAnnaLuca/status/1346132030623461376?s=20) - [On the importance of defaults on education](https://twitter.com/DellAnnaLuca/status/1346099099217653765?s=20) - [On the opportunity costs of teaching Latin](https://twitter.com/DellAnnaLuca/status/1345974949358538753?s=20) ## 2019 – Q4 - [Ergodicity and antifragility](https://twitter.com/DellAnnaLuca/status/1210635302764765185?s=20) - [On working long hours](https://twitter.com/DellAnnaLuca/status/1210313432416837633?s=20) - [Exposure dynamics](https://twitter.com/DellAnnaLuca/status/1210243372490928128?s=20) - [17 things you should know before your first day at the office](https://twitter.com/DellAnnaLuca/status/1209198665459552256?s=20) - [Adaptation dynamics](https://twitter.com/DellAnnaLuca/status/1209182144297406464?s=20) - [Adaptation mechanics: how things adapt](https://twitter.com/DellAnnaLuca/status/1208797456751845376?s=20) - [Damage mechanics: how things break](https://twitter.com/DellAnnaLuca/status/1208420759359635456?s=20) - [The rationale of risk-taking](https://twitter.com/DellAnnaLuca/status/1207615026024124417?s=20) - [How good policies and technologies get adopted](https://twitter.com/DellAnnaLuca/status/1199711785097551872?s=20) - [Trust-as-a-service](https://twitter.com/DellAnnaLuca/status/1189486213608169472?s=20) - [Getting Core Values adopted](https://twitter.com/DellAnnaLuca/status/1188072597239537664?s=20) - [Applications of the Fence Paradox to real-world policies](https://twitter.com/DellAnnaLuca/status/1187760944472084481?s=20) - [Morality and ergodicity](https://twitter.com/DellAnnaLuca/status/1187705904629714944?s=20) - [The false efficiency of centralization](https://twitter.com/DellAnnaLuca/status/1187693407508029445?s=20) - [Redundancy: good or bad?](https://twitter.com/DellAnnaLuca/status/1186216644529524736?s=20) - [The bottom-up manifesto](https://twitter.com/DellAnnaLuca/status/1184519281305948162?s=20) - [Getting AI/ML to understand context](https://twitter.com/DellAnnaLuca/status/1181849088062578688?s=20) - [Thoughts on ergodicity](https://twitter.com/DellAnnaLuca/status/1181501948085833729?s=20) - [The dynamics of the antifragile](https://twitter.com/DellAnnaLuca/status/1180860829094334465?s=20) ## 2019 – Q3 - [Anger and identity](https://twitter.com/DellAnnaLuca/status/1178941663970054145) - [Visualizing autistic perception](https://twitter.com/DellAnnaLuca/status/1176171418746314752) - [Contextualization in the human brain](https://twitter.com/DellAnnaLuca/status/1176145946297737217) - [Ergodicity](https://twitter.com/DellAnnaLuca/status/1175056226960510976) - [The path to irrelevance](https://twitter.com/DellAnnaLuca/status/1173232112528478208) - [The main obstacle to our future self](https://twitter.com/DellAnnaLuca/status/1158678908616794112?s=20) - [Ego and future self](https://twitter.com/DellAnnaLuca/status/1157311909718319104?s=20) - [The iteration criteria for predictions](https://twitter.com/DellAnnaLuca/status/1146000318343208960) ## 2019 – H1 - [The purpose of emotions](https://twitter.com/DellAnnaLuca/status/1141613235101032448) - [How matrixes are useful in the real world and what they represent](https://twitter.com/DellAnnaLuca/status/1141257841291997184) - [The evolution of educations costs](https://twitter.com/DellAnnaLuca/status/1136567878478696448) - [Intuitive processes in the brain](https://twitter.com/DellAnnaLuca/status/1136354682107060224) - [The scope and limitations of political and economic ideas](https://twitter.com/DellAnnaLuca/status/1128975590437134340) - [A list of common confabulations](https://twitter.com/DellAnnaLuca/status/1128594288017846272) - [Urban planning and localism](https://twitter.com/DellAnnaLuca/status/1117360168629497858) - [Why AI has learning disabilities](https://twitter.com/DellAnnaLuca/status/1115879647294697472) - [Fractals & prosperity](https://twitter.com/DellAnnaLuca/status/1115526144336453632) - [The need for borders](https://twitter.com/DellAnnaLuca/status/1114827063154724864) - [How our brain doesn't work as we think](https://twitter.com/DellAnnaLuca/status/1114783753644138497) - [The Toyota Production System (TPS)](https://twitter.com/DellAnnaLuca/status/1114041596146622465) - [10 Theses on Education](https://twitter.com/DellAnnaLuca/status/1112606437010632710?s=20) - [Capitalism and Socialism aren't what people think they are](https://twitter.com/DellAnnaLuca/status/1115788163643990017?s=20) - [The need for independence](https://twitter.com/DellAnnaLuca/status/1104334441285992448) - [Rules to Understand the World](https://twitter.com/DellAnnaLuca/status/1084717802232205312) - [The Fence Paradox](https://twitter.com/DellAnnaLuca/status/1110738862085558272) - [Internal Karma](https://twitter.com/DellAnnaLuca/status/1082313416839184384) - [Why efficiency only makes sense in a few restricted fields](https://twitter.com/DellAnnaLuca/status/1113460895189856256) - [The Fundamental Principle of Human Behavior](https://twitter.com/DellAnnaLuca/status/1100683526007975936) - [Why often people care more about plausibility than truth](https://twitter.com/DellAnnaLuca/status/1111474799740485632) - [Why evil necessitates admissibility](https://twitter.com/DellAnnaLuca/status/1088161095121027079) ## 2018 and earlier - [Principles to understand our mind](https://twitter.com/DellAnnaLuca/status/1057961927874363392?s=20) - [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](https://twitter.com/DellAnnaLuca/status/999823759530840064?s=20) - [Debt and optionality in life](https://twitter.com/DellAnnaLuca/status/970730884751089666?s=20) - [Marginal value](https://twitter.com/DellAnnaLuca/status/895932638896115712?s=20) - [All bad decisions in life arise from having optimized for the wrong metric](https://twitter.com/DellAnnaLuca/status/880467333998706688?s=20) - [What got you here won't get you there](https://twitter.com/DellAnnaLuca/status/886237393044488192?s=20)