Greg Patini

Engineer at the intersection of the physical and digital worlds.

[Greg Patini @gregpatini]

@IterIntellectus It is just changing how it is conceived and processed

[Greg Patini @gregpatini]

Garuth, you can’t imagine how many bottlenecks I saw inside one of the biggest automatic machinery companies in the world. All human-related. No major constraints came from technology or know-how.
Anyway, I think what you point out is so true, but it should be understood by everyone, from founders to managers to employees.
My opinion is that in manufacturing, you can outcompete a lot of old giants just by structuring the company to be both software-native and built around a brand-new culture, more aligned with what the market needs at the moment.
For the rest, the only thing left is to distribute and find customers.

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@IterIntellectus You can perceive how fast things are moving by trying to read anything from more than a couple of months ago (tech-related topics).
It seems like everything is obsolete, except for the foundations.

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@dhh Counter-suggestion:

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@fragiannicola @dom_gag_96 Let me know if I can help guys 🫡🇮🇹

[Greg Patini @gregpatini]

@dhh The path to heaven feels like hell.
The path to hell feels like heaven.

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@zachglabman I’m moving from Italy to bring more industrial capacity to the US, just to give you an idea of how much I agree with the cause

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This is one of the hardest takes you’ve ever had for me.
It’s the same in plenty of other fields. I think when a technology attacks the ego of some superficial workers, this is what happens. They hide in their shell, not admitting that they’re just scared of what they once were.

It reminds me of the adoption of new technologies years ago by on-field technicians. If they had to change their workflow from writing a technical report on paper to doing it digitally through an application, they were furious (without any real reason to be, obviously), but I think it was more because they were conscious that they had less value in some branches of the process.

At this point, I strongly think it’s more about human ego, since people should be happy to use whatever leads to better results in what they are doing.

[Greg Patini @gregpatini]

@dickiebush The friction you experience once you start trying to jot down what you thought was easy to think about is one of the easiest ways to understand what training really means. Very similar to lifting heavy weights for me

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@rocketshipalx @vonderleyen Could be true, anyway I think the problem is more on the law side, because you can centralize countries and still allows decentralization giving more autonomy for example. But it’s clearly a more complex argument for an X thread

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And I think the trend is going in that direction, frankly. But if handcrafting skills are related to forms of human intelligence such as spatial reasoning and practical judgment, then we will have to make sure we pass those skills to the next generations too, since they could indirectly become useful for making better decisions in related fields.
So could not only a matter of losing a “cool art”

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@craigweiss So true, imagine how far we could go without those kind of boundaries, and competition could still exist anyway..

[Greg Patini @gregpatini]

I tried to think about how to replace LinkedIn as a founder multiple times.

Every thinking process, first-principles approach, or deconstruction of the problem ended up with 2 results, even in conversations with other people and engineers:

- A premium service where you replace recruiters with such an effective system that recruiting departments are no longer needed for those adopting the service. Top-tier psychologists and field-related people specifically trained to understand the best employee possible for a specific position.

- Creating software, but with the caveat that if you don’t have a large enough network, you will end up having the usual cold-start/network-effect problem of new social apps.

I’m so grateful someone is taking care of replacing that shit that is LinkedIn, so I’m really rooting for this project

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@BasedDaedalus @drydenwtbrown Roma non è stata costruita in un giorno.

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@crislenta Great Cris, hope to see you soon in SF

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@dhh As Hamming said: “The purpose of computing is insight, not numbers”

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@elonmusk Does the advantage here come more from the physical production system or from the software controlling the factory? Could a legacy manufacturer reproduce this line without rebuilding its software stack?

[Greg Patini @gregpatini]

I’m not sure about that. At first glance, I’d say I agree.

Manufacturing companies, especially the biggest ones, are slow and culturally anchored to the past, and so are their managers.

So their IT infrastructures aren’t that sophisticated. They lack the workforce, appeal, and budget for that purpose, and outsourcing software makes budgeting easier, giving them one less problem to deal with.

So the case where a manufacturing company builds all its software internally could be when a new company is founded and internalizes every piece of software it needs. Still hard for an end-to-end software stack, but possible once a company has enough capital to handle it.

In this scenario, the TAM for companies selling software to manufacturing companies would gradually decrease, potentially all the way to zero (?)