← People and their mental models
6 claims Austin Vernon made fit 4 mental models. Most often: Bottlenecks, Margin of safety, Second-order thinking. Everything they said here.
A system moves only as fast as its narrowest point; speed up anything else and nothing changes.
Their wordsThe modern world is so bountiful that mass production is no longer the limiting factor.
Their wordsThere is much more space in the air than on the airport tarmac. Our current hub and spoke system means some hub airports operate near runway capacity already.
Their wordsCheap, lightweight people movers are currently illegal in many situations, so regulation is a barrier.
Leave room for being wrong, because sometimes you will be.
Their wordsHumans being awful drivers leads to a massive increase in vehicle costs and weight, makes cars more dangerous to people outside of them, and imposes significant costs on infrastructure like roads.
Ask "and then what?": follow a decision past its first effect to the ones that come after.
Their wordsThese end manufacturers (new and old) are vulnerable to tariffs on their inputs and they are the buyers that the "speed strategy" is relevant for.
When something becomes cheap and plentiful, the value moves to whatever is still rare next to it.
Their wordsThe key is that robot arms are not labor-replacing, but labor-shifting.