Petr Cernohorsky

What have rugby and business in common? However techniques and safety are important, values and approach is what matters!
Fan of #TATRASMICHOV

[Mehdi (e/λ) @BetterCallMedhi]

I spent time in Shenzhen last year and when I saw Merz come back from China saying Germans need to work more I immediately knew what broke his brain because I lived the exact same cognitive shock

my first week in Huaqiangbei I burned through 4 prototype iterations of a motor controller board for less than a thousand bucks total, back home a friend was working on something similar and spent over 12 thousand for a single revision that took almost two months to arrive

when you live that contrast in your own hands with your own project something permanently shifts in how you see the world and it goes way deeper than speed & cost

what Shenzhen actually built is a collective learning organism, imagine 20 PCB fabs 15 injection mold shops 30 component distributors and a hundred firmware freelancers all within a 2km radius, looks insanely redundant from the outside until you realize redundancy is actually information density in disguise

I watched this firsthand with an injection mold supplier I was working with, this guy had seen a hundred founders iterate similar thermal designs over 6 months so he proactively modified his tooling before I even opened my mouth, he knew what I needed before I knew what I needed, the intelligence lives in the relationships between the nodes and it compounds daily

the west thinks about manufacturing as a cost center you optimize by centralizing…

China accidentally built a distributed neural network of manufacturing intelligence where knowledge diffuses horizontally across thousands of agents faster than any single western company can process internally

so when Merz comes back and says we need to work a bit more I think he saw the problem but COMPLETELY misdiagnosed the solution, telling Germans to work harder is like telling a horse to gallop faster when the other side built a combustion engine

the gap is ARCHITECTURAL

it’s ecosystem density, you need a custom connector in Shenzhen you walk 200 meters, in Munich you send an email and wait 3 weeks

it’s iteration speed, parallel search vs sequential optimization at the system level, it’s risk tolerance, Chinese founders ship something broken on Monday fix it Tuesday ship again Wednesday while European companies are still in the approval phase for the pilot program of the feasibility study…

and Merz only saw the surface, what he missed is the tier 2 cities like Hefei Chengdu Wuhan replicating the Shenzhen model at scale right now

BYD going from irrelevant to outselling every european automaker combined in roughly 5 years, Huawei building its own 7nm chip under maximum sanctions when every analyst said it was physically impossible & behind all of that a government that treats advanced manufacturing as an existential national priority while europe debates whether AI needs another ethics committee

I think what we’re watching is the most asymmetric economic competition in modern history and most western leaders are still framing it as a productivity problem when it’s actually an ontological one

Europe & America are optimizing variables that China stopped tracking years ago meanwhile China is compounding on dimensions the west has no framework to even measure
Merz at least had the courage to name

it out loud and I respect that genuinely but working a bit more inside a broken architecture just means you arrive at the wrong destination slightly faster

[Alex Veremeyenko @alex_verem]

🚨 RAG is broken and nobody's talking about it.

Stanford just exposed the fatal flaw killing every "AI that reads your docs" product.

It's called "Semantic Collapse", and it happens the moment your knowledge base hits critical mass.

Here's the brutal math (and why your RAG system is already dying):

[Petr Cernohorsky @ExpressPet]

Sarcastic but common.

[Peter Girnus 🦅 @gothburz]

The company hired me to lead their "Agile Transformation."
I don't know what Agile means.
Nobody does.
That's why it works.

I make $425,000 a year.
To move sticky notes.
From left to right.
On a board.
The board is digital now.
The sticky notes cost $80,000 in Jira licenses.
Progress.

Day one, I said "we need to break down silos."
Everyone nodded.
Silos are bad.
I don't know why.
But destroying them is a career.
My career.

I introduced "squads."
Squads are teams.
But disrupted.
We disrupted the teams into teams.
Different names.
Same people.
Same problems.
But Agile problems now.
Agile problems are strategic.

A senior engineer asked what we're actually changing.
I said, "The mindset."
He asked what that means.
I said, "It's a journey."
He asked where we're going.
I said, "Toward agility."
He asked what agility means.
I pointed at the sticky notes.
They were moving left to right.
That's velocity.
We have velocity now.

The VP of Engineering said two-week sprints don't fit their work.
I said, "That's waterfall thinking."
Waterfall is bad.
Like silos.
I don't know what waterfall is.
But I know it's bad.
She stopped talking.
Waterfall accusations end conversations.

We had a retrospective.
In the retro, we discussed what went wrong.
Everything went wrong.
We put it on sticky notes.
Then we moved the sticky notes.
Into a column called "Parking Lot."
The Parking Lot is where problems go to die.
It's full.
We don't look at it.
That's agile.

Velocity is up 40%.
I defined velocity.
I also defined the points.
I also defined the stories.
We're crushing it.
At the things I made up.
To measure.
Ourselves.

The CEO asked for ROI.
I showed a chart.
The chart went up.
Charts should go up.
This one did.
I didn't label the Y-axis.
Nobody asked.
Leadership is confidence.

We do standups now.
Every day.
We stand.
For 45 minutes.
Standing is agile.
Sitting is waterfall.
My legs hurt.
But we're transforming.

The transformation is now "Phase 3."
Phase 1 was assessment.
Phase 2 was implementation.
Phase 3 is "continuous improvement."
Continuous means forever.
Forever means job security.
I'm very secure.

My contract was extended.
Three more years.
For "cultural impact."
The culture is confused.
But impacted.

Agile transformation isn't about being agile.
It's about transforming.
Continuously.
Toward more transformation.
The destination is the journey.
The journey is billable.

[@amuse @amuse]

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[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Astronaut splashdown in 2 mins!
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[Aaron Spivak @AaronSpivak2]

Success isn't about luck. It's about mindset.

Here are 10 traits from 10 of history’s greatest leaders.

Decoding the entrepreneurial mindset:

[Petr Cernohorsky @ExpressPet]

#TATRASMICHOV!

[Petr Cernohorsky @ExpressPet]

@isro Congratulations #Chandrayaan3 and #IndiaOnTheMoon !

[Rock and Roll Garage @rocknrollgarag1]

Happy 80 birthday to the legendary Rolling Stones vocalist Mick Jagger!

[Petr Cernohorsky @ExpressPet]

Super! Velika gratulace!!!

[Český olympijský tým @olympijskytym]

Kdo si zahraje o Paříž 2024? 😍 MY! Obří překvapení Evropských her je na světě, ragbistky berou historický bronz a postupují do kvalifikace na olympiádu! 🏉

Kde skončí tahle pohádka? Tleskáme a smekáme týme! 🥳 #ragbyjeproholky #olympijskytym #jedentym @ceske_ragby

[@jason @Jason]

ARE YOU FUCKING KIDDING ME?!

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[Petr Cernohorsky @ExpressPet]

Congratulations @RCTatraSmichov! You are the best! #U18 #Rugby

[Petr Cernohorsky @ExpressPet]

Přispěl jsem na projekt Nenech složit ragby jako 1 092 dalších přispěvatelů https://t.co/cogAYvhieu #hithit

[Jirka Zima (swarm) @diagon_swarm]

🔥🔋Hoření/hašení elektromobilů, způsoby, kontaminace...🔋🔥 V týdnu hořel v Praze elektrický Jaguar, a tak je možná nejvyšší čas, abych konečně napsal slibované vlákno o rizicích s tím spojených i nejčastějších mýtech. Tak do toho... 🧵1/11

[Bulios.com @bulioscom]

LONGEVITY 🧬

Aneb budeme tady všichni do 100 let? ⏳

@ilblog sdílel 4 zajímavé knihy z oblasti longevity a zdravého života a jelikož spoustu z vás tohle téma stejně jako mě zajímá, tak se pojďme podívat na to, o čem tyhle knihy jsou a co si z nich můžete odnést 👇

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[Rugby Europe @rugby_europe]

🇨🇿 v 🇫🇮 In the Women's Trophy tomorrow you can watch @ceske_ragby take on Finland from 2pm on Rugby Europe TV

Line ups: https://t.co/XAdbTwbpTC

[Petr Cernohorsky @ExpressPet]

9 dní nabitých energií :) https://t.co/9GGVUb43JW

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

At 01:17 UTC on Feb 6, 2023, an M7.8 earthquake hit Turkey and Syria. These are the seismic waves recorded in Europe. Each dot is a seismic station

[source, GMV: https://t.co/ToG583o8aF]
https://t.co/5xaBj0uvxF