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186: The Universe Makes it Happen with Emily Gorcenski
Emily has been on GTC before! Check out her previous episode: 037: Failure Mode
01:08 - Emily’s Superpower: Hunting Nazis and Data Science
- Emily’s Motivation to Do This Work – Fighting Back
- What is the question behind the question?
- Data Science + SCIENCE
14:55 - Being Willing to Be Wrong / Failure and Learning
- Methods for Determining You’re Going to be Tracking Wrong Things
- Simpson’s Paradox
- Means Are a Lie
- Detecting Nonlinearities
34:49 - Cybernetics
38:43 - The COVID-19 Pandemic Crisis and The Need For Systematic Restructuring
- The Problem with Testing
- Ventilator Production
47:16 - Nuance, Power, and Authority
- High-Reliability Organizations
- Devolution
- The Difference Between:
- Innovation
- A Work-Around
- A Shortcut
- A Non-Compliant
- Deciphering Good Actors & Bad Actors
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Special Guest: Emily Gorcenski.