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. I am still very active on Twitter, though.
2024 – Q2
2023 – October
2023 – September
2023 – August
2023 – July
2023 – May
2023 – April
2023 – March
2023 – February
2023 – January
2022 – December
2022 – November
2022 – August
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
2022 – February
2022 – January
2021 – December
2021 – November
2021 – September
2021 – July
2021 – May
2021 – April
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
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
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