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Patrick McKenzie@patio11• over 1 year ago

One of many, many instances of “Wow competent execution on basic operations management from the 1950s feels like absolute magic. I wonder why nobody thought of that.” https://t.co/NF8B6W3lJ3

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Patrick McKenzie@patio11• over 1 year ago
Replying to @patio11

An idiosyncratic belief which I had is you can compress decades of economic history to “Then Japan was awarded a worldwide monopoly on applied mathematics in manufacturing by the court of Nobody Else Gave a Shit.”

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