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Luis Perez-Breva

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“I think of myself as a different person every so often. So, I'm not sure what myself of 20 years ago really thought. I can't chat with him to figure that out. So I'm not sure that that's what I wanted, but what I wrote in the book gives me the answer I think I was looking for while I didn't know what I was doing. So I guess that what I did is that answered, if not the question I would have phrased, what I thought I needed to understand to make it to the next leap for myself. And that has been a really enriching experience.”
2018-02-28 · Masters in Business · Luis Perez-Breva Explains How to Be ‘Productively Wrong’ · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Interesting question. So, my first advice is find a problem, right? Because technology is what you use to make the problem go away, right? And innovation is the process of doing that to some degree. If you can find a problem and look harder, but if all you intend to do is get money, you know, the current cycle is going to end. Eventually, it's going to become impossible to create Multi-billion dollar investments that take 10 or 15 years to show a profit, if not more. So that's not going to be there forever. And when that goes away, if you just adopt that view of the world, it's not going to help you. So just find a problem and work backwards from that problem to get the education you want rather than obsessing about what do I become, computer scientist or so on and so forth.”
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“I spend as much time as I can with my kids for not just because I'm a family man, it's just they're hilarious. But it's not with my kids as in traditional playing, of course. As you can imagine, we build contraptions, I'm having them build computers. They're five and eight, but it's okay. It's good early enough. So having them assemble the computers, we are doing all sorts of absurd things. And we play together and I'm even learning violin with both of them. And that's incredibly enriching for me”
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“But it's not an innovation, right? So then on the other side, more and more people, I believe, can actually start to learn on their own and ignore recipes or set models because there is such an abundance of information that wasn't there 10 years ago. And AI is only making that or will only make it if I get my way. We'd only make it even easier to put that to your service so you can solve whatever problem you fancy.”
2018-02-28 · Masters in Business · Luis Perez-Breva Explains How to Be ‘Productively Wrong’ · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Many things have changed. I'll give you one for the better and one for the worse. We've become way more siloed. And that creates enormous amounts of inefficiencies in education, in investing, in innovation that I myself avoid with ITEMs, which is cross-disciplinary, across the entire institute. That's something that I believe is going to change. At the same time, the opposite has also become true. You could educate yourself on whatever, online, if only you had a project or a means to guide you with a project to acquire that knowledge, which is the reason why I wrote the book to start with. And so those two things have happened. One, people more siloed and more formulaic. More students ask me today for formulas for innovation than they did 10 years ago, which makes no sense because if there is a formula, there is a recipe, then you're just going to bake the same cake someone did. How is that an innovation? It's a great copy. By all means, eat the cake.”
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“It needs to be absurd because otherwise you cannot get good ideas. They need to look absurd at first. Not because, and this is something I realized over time, ideas look absurd because of your training. They were not absurd per se. So if your background taught you to ignore certain things and assume certain things, anything that challenges that will look absurd. Only until you show it works.”
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“No solution real and lots of what you might call failures, but really if he failed, he died. So that was not an option. And the mechanic of the book, the richness of it, even if you don't fully understand the technology, you can tell the story. It's enormously vibrant. And the last book I keep on coming back to every now and then is What If from Randall Monro”
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“He was fantastic. And the reason I love it is just absurd in such a profoundly logical way. That it's just hilarious. Another book that I devoured was The Martian two years ago when I first got it. And I've still read it again because it is the way science really is, not the way it is being taught. It's not about the model. It's about using nature to help you. And that book, every page, is literally a person trying to survive, making science and nature work for him. It's a serious.”
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“So those change all the time. But the latest breed is the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, which I keep on coming back to.”
2018-02-28 · Masters in Business · Luis Perez-Breva Explains How to Be ‘Productively Wrong’ · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Right, but he invests in long term only for value creation and he also does philanthropy And innovation is all about removing obstacles. Should be investing in that, and yet he doesn't. I don't mean he should, but trying to answer this question has caused me to think about more carefully about what innovation actually is and how it is different from just creating a company or doing a startup. It's much more ambitious.”
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“So it's not fully matured and able to understand every single thing until you are close to 29 by some of the latest research. The other thing that actually influenced me is at the opposite extreme. I've had this question in my head about why does Warren Buffet not invest in innovation, not technology startups, but innovation? He should. I mean, I'm not one to say what he should do with his money, but...”
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“Is formulaic and Kun essentially admits one thing that I've come to come believe as a mantra, which is that the beginning of any new theory is fundamentally ill-conceived. mostly wrong by any traditional stand that barely works, and yet somehow it becomes a standard afterwards. And that beginning starts with people putting together what seems preposterous, mostly because they have a hunch that something isn't working. I'm putting my own words on Kuhn. So Kuren doesn't use tunch, and I'm not sure he would agree with the way I interpret history writings. And I think it's a really hard book to read. It took me, I read it at first at the age of 23. I didn't understand it I only understood it at the age of 29 when I read it again. And by the way, that's because your brain keeps on evolving.”
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“Many. I'll give you two. One is Thomas Kuhn. Which is very known in the United States and hardly known in Europe. Surprisingly, in Europe, people talk about Popper, which is the competing school of thought. I think Thomas Kune explains the scientific method in a way that resonates with me and Popper doesn't.”
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“He's still a professor at MIT. Recently, Charlie Cooney has been a great mentor because he sort of told me, I think you have a book in your hands when I wasn't even thinking about it. And I guess I did. And even earlier, a lot of family friends, essentially, the friend of my family was quoting earlier that Talking to me and said, What are you going to do next? And I said, I don't really know, I haven't learned enough to what I want to accomplish. And he said, you don't know what you're doing. You need to leave this country and go to the United States. And I said, okay? So I guess he hit me in this path.”
2018-02-28 · Masters in Business · Luis Perez-Breva Explains How to Be ‘Productively Wrong’ · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Significant mentor. He's a significant mentor. We haven't spoken in a few years now because their actions take us different ways. But that's much later in life, right? So he was certainly a great mentor more recently.”
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“I've had to rewrite it. And so I wrote it and then wrote it again and then wrote it again and modified it so I could win always. And before you know it, I actually know how to code basic, and I was eight years old, mostly because I just wanted to play. Masterman, and that has defined the way I think about AI and everything I've told you before in ways that keep on coming back to my head. The ability to play make things that seem complicated playable changes how we actually approach them. And that's defined why I keep on jumping through fields seemingly in a way.”
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“So I learned to program by accident. My mom had taken a class in computer science. It was Neon, she went next door and took a class, and we had these 48K computer. And she told me, look, they've given me the mastermind game, only that it needs to be coded in the computer. So the first time she wrote it in the computer for me and I played it. But it was one of those computers like really old. Like you could not save.”
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“And once you realize that and you train yourself to these tiny mistakes, I call them near misses if you want. Then you get a whole different sense of what the actual means to be wrong. It's the example I gave you earlier. If the violin is out of tune, it kind of still sounds okay. It's not as great, right? But it's not, it needs to be really bad, bad, bad for you not to even recognize the song. And after a while, that helps you play better.”
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“The kid learned Krate by actually kind of waxing cars and painting fences. So I developed a few karate kid tasks to kind of train them to be wrong. One of them I asked them to just call a pizza. And I mean some pizzeria and ask for a doctor's appointment. Of course, they think it's going to be embarrassing, but it's just a phone call. And then once they do it, you don't know who's more surprised if the person who called or the person who received the call. I asked them to please not abuse the pizzeria just to try it once. But to get the feeling of themselves in the shoes of that stress moment and realize it's not that bad.”
2018-02-28 · Masters in Business · Luis Perez-Breva Explains How to Be ‘Productively Wrong’ · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Business, you should not take the first no for an answer because sometimes people need a second chance to think it through. And so, maybe two, right? It's a good starting point to get yourself trained. And then I develop all these funny games. I call them karate kid tasks. For the movie, you probably remember the first karate kid movie in which there was Wax On, Walks Off. Sure. That stuff.”
2018-02-28 · Masters in Business · Luis Perez-Breva Explains How to Be ‘Productively Wrong’ · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“What I tell my class to students is that as long as no one is hurt, and that's very important. You should not take the first no for a no. Right. And that doesn't apply to relationships, right? This applies. You're talking.”
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“But I don't claim to have a secret that all of a sudden. I got inspired. Maybe I was just wrong one too many times to realize that it's not that bad.”
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“I don't want to claim massive insight or foresight on the matter. So part of me, I'm just, I wasn't aware that I was supposed to not care. I mean, part of it was just, I don't know, something about my upbringing that. And then seriously, if I don't get a no every three days. It's not my life. I've been told no about craziest stuff I propose to do or literally every three days. Some of it is crazy. Some of it I was right. But even super dear mentors that I take in high esteem have told me time and again, what are you doing? This is not the normal path. And I tell them, I just don't understand really the normal path. The fact that it's normal doesn't make it logical to me. So call it that my head is wired the opposite direction. Maybe it's because I'm dyslexic. And so certain things that seem obvious to other people are not obvious to me.”
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“They're doing, and this is not to say that they are not doing great things. Maybe tomorrow Facebook will make an announcement. And I'll say, oh, look, I was wrong on Bloomberg. And I'll move on. Right.”
2018-02-28 · Masters in Business · Luis Perez-Breva Explains How to Be ‘Productively Wrong’ · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“So how long can we withstand that? You know, if you were in business school 10 years ago, they would have told you that the secret of Google was that they ended the banner tyranny of the internet You should remember that in the 90s, internet was just mostly ad banners and eventually some content. Now look at the internet today. Exactly the same as it was in 1998 A bunch of ads over there of stuff that most likely you bought already. And that's how they know you like it. And so they advertise it again. So I believe we're getting to the same point. Maybe I'm wrong, which as you know, I don't care much about. But so when I look at these companies, I just don't know how to assess.”
2018-02-28 · Masters in Business · Luis Perez-Breva Explains How to Be ‘Productively Wrong’ · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Got, I mean, I have to confess that when it comes to companies that are just purely social. I have a hard time understanding. Ah why they have any competitive advantage whatsoever except that they were there already which means that if someone else comes around with something that's fundamentally different it might be wiped out But that's my own shortcoming. It's not a shortcoming of Facebook. In the case of Facebook, I see lots of ideas. I see lots of chaos in many ideas, many companies, a use of machine learning for many things. But I also see mostly an advertising company. In everything they do, much to some degree like Google, though Google has tried more actively to branch out from that.”
2018-02-28 · Masters in Business · Luis Perez-Breva Explains How to Be ‘Productively Wrong’ · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“So they keep on reinventing themselves. So rather than looking at who tries and fails a lot, which implies a degree of visibility onto their process that we may not have, Just look at how subtly they actually change the company they are. And every time you look at it, it seems like perfectly incremental. And yet it's completely different. Amazon, the Everything Store, then producing movies, the Elastic Cloud along the way. They use what they have to change who they are. And we may not see how they do it, but that's what happens every single time.”
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“And some things are kept along the way. So, in their case, it's a very clever use of machine learning that's kept along the way and allows them to think about the next scale-up. And that's a piece they keep on growing. So they are building a very incredible capability that gets to be incredibly versatile. It's like the perfect example of proper financial wisdom, which is, you know, you want to diversify in the face of uncertainty, you want to actually diversify and not do the opposite, which is focused just on one idea and spend all your money in it. That sounds financially wrong advice. And so there's companies like that that are incredibly innovative that we just don't know what they're doing. Apple, for instance, is the prototypical example. The typical question is, with Steve Jobs, are they still innovative or not? I don't know the answer to that. But in the meantime, while we were not looking, they became a services company.”
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“Which, if you remember It sounded completely ridiculous at first. Actually, Netflix, which I talk about in the book, is a great example because they too have been exposed in the press. And every four years, someone says they're ridiculous and they're wrong. And then four years later, it turns out they weren't. So that's why the mechanic is so great. But Netflix also shows you the idea that there is a difference between coming up with an app and just counting users and actually scaling up a company. The way Netflix gets to where it is today is by actually becoming various different companies along the way when you look at what they actually do. Today they produce movies. The day they sold DVDs. Well, actually, they rented DVDs.”
2018-02-28 · Masters in Business · Luis Perez-Breva Explains How to Be ‘Productively Wrong’ · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“So I'm actually, if at all, they've proven that there is a way to do web companies, which everybody thinks they're easier, and only create perceived value, but not real value.”
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“So I admire the way Elon Musk has gotten around to create the companies he has created, but I've actually developed the appreciation by reading the biography more than what the news say about him. I am not particularly impressed by any web company that we see nowadays. Even though there is lots of incubators and things out there, I actually feel that they've proven kind of the opposite, that if you just start with a web idea, it takes very long, it is too costly, and no one makes a profit.”
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“Always hard to know exactly what's going on inside a company, right? We have unusual visibility on some and no visibility at all on others. So it's hard to make a blanket statement. The few examples we know of are companies that are still starting up. And so they are not so good at keeping secrets. And so you actually get to see more. So there's a lot to like and not to like about how things are developing from many. I certainly love everything Jeff Bezos does. And even though I would not use the word failure because they just moved on, I agree and sympathize with the idea of try. And of course, if everything works out, you're not trying hard enough, right?”
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“It boils down to what you asked them to present at the end of those 20% time spent on ideas. If they are just presenting ideas, I don't think it's efficient. But you can actually guide a entire workforce that actually to innovate continuously if you place the interest in, can you please tell me how we will direct resources to prove this thing that you have at the next scale? And that's actually a different way to think about the innovation. We've actually done it outside of MIT and proven it to myself, that you can truly get highly motivated people and prepare them to do this and innovate continuously in this way and create new organizations that work.”
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“Money generally, and what you see is that if you don't have good ideas that you've actually kicked the tires for yourself before going out for money, you're just going to be subjected to how those people think about what innovation should be. And so you're going to go through a path that may not be the best. Now, because money is more concentrated, either being companies that are pushing more research, I would say, not so much innovation, or in the hands of a few philanthropists. You sort of need to figure out a way to make a case appealing that even though it may not match how they think about innovation, they agree with you that the problem can get solved. So if you do your homework, it's okay. But I think the problem is that money has gotten too concentrated in hands and that may create the perception that it's harder.”
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“I think so. That's the way. By the way, that's actually much closer to the way you are benefiting from AI today. So with the limited capabilities of Netflix in terms of intelligence, as is broadly understood, you are benefiting from how Netflix collates what other people have looked at without having watched a single one of those movies, Netflix itself. And you're getting new recommendations of movies. The same for Google. You're actually accessing Google, typing a few keywords, and you're getting to see how other people have sorted out the web, right? The way AI has been helping us has already been that way, even though it's limited. It's still only machine learning.”
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“And these problems is gone. I mean, like, we don't know what we're doing anymore. So I would rather think of an AI that actually helps us directly in the sense of we need a new objective. And to me, the objective is AI that helps us the way Jarvis helps Tony Stark become a superhero, Iron Man. So in that movie, Iron Man, everybody talks about Tony Stark and whatever, but the great, great, great tool is Jarvis, which is the AI that powers the suit and helps Tony Stark build stuff. Now imagine you had some kind of a system that's way more powerful than Google, but still is helping you problem solve things so that you can accomplish something new. That's what we need AI to do, at least. That's what I want AI to do.”
2018-02-28 · Masters in Business · Luis Perez-Breva Explains How to Be ‘Productively Wrong’ · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Actually, going to surprise you with this Idea Artificial generalized artificial intelligence was proposed at the beginning of the field. And the presumption was that if we ever got a computer to beat a human, a chess, or strategy game, we have achieved generalized artificial intelligence because back then we thought. That was super hard for a computer. And I guess what we now know is that You didn't need artificial generalized artificial intelligence to do that, even though the progress has been remarkable, but it's only been machine learning. And it also means that we're done in an odd way. We need a new objective because the way we define that generalized artificial intelligence, which is the Turing test”
2018-02-28 · Masters in Business · Luis Perez-Breva Explains How to Be ‘Productively Wrong’ · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“So, the way I and many of my friends think about technology and what I think it's my next passion now is what we need to do is make a better effort to bring this technology so that more people can play with it and benefit from it. And that needs to be done. It needs to be brought to scale. I think we haven't done such a great job at that for the last 10, 20 years, but we can. But I don't think that on its own, big data or AI, the way you see it implemented today is going to do any of those things that the fear mongers say are going to happen.”
2018-02-28 · Masters in Business · Luis Perez-Breva Explains How to Be ‘Productively Wrong’ · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“So on that one, I'm rooting for humans. So I think we're going to see amazing things coming up. I would also like to bring up what we actually call technology because the definition, the T at MIT, what got MIT started, is the idea of using science and knowledge to help humankind reach further and gain control over nature. So if it is not helping us, it's not technology, at least according to this definition.”
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“So it's those two are necessarily always the same, right? And sometimes I would say that in the case of many daring innovators, they've actually started some and they've stayed. In some cases, they've actually gotten Bosniak left Apple and he was The innovations Apple started, as was the Steve Jobs, right? So I think it's more of a personal choice and a career choice than it is a rule.”
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“Come back in the future. It's hard to make those general statements about people, but it's also true that some people, and I have plenty of friends that have shared this with me entrepreneurs, that just like to build it and get it. But I also want to distinguish I don't know who the innovator was in the Uber story. We talk about the CEO.”
2018-02-28 · Masters in Business · Luis Perez-Breva Explains How to Be ‘Productively Wrong’ · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I think it's neither right nor wrong it's true for some people. Steve Jobs was able to. Bill Gates was able to. In the case of Uber, it didn't happen, at least now that we know, maybe, you know, it will happen like with Steve Jobs.”
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“And they planned for it. They either suggest modifications to the engine, they come up with protocols, they do something so that by the time they bring their endeavor to scale, which is getting into the International Space Station, they are prepared for whatever may happen. So that if it all fails, it's because it was not predictable. That's what it means to actually achieve scale. And then it may well be that the problem you're targeting just lives at a small scale. That's fine. You'll learn that through this process.”
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“I'll tell you an example you bake eight cookies, you bake 16 cookies Spending more money. Actually, the only reason why you're not spending much more money is because you're still using the same oven. So it's not necessarily intuitive about what it means to actually scale things up. But what it scales is the endeavor, not the idea. And so what you need to do is think about it the way astronauts go to the moon or to the international space station, which is the only way you can scale up is you catch, if you catch everything that would look like a failure at the scale at which it's only an ever. And so you don't fail. So, why do I bring astronauts? Well, that's what they do according to Chris Hatfeld, as I explained in the book, and many others. They just go through every excruciating detail about what will kill them.”
2018-02-28 · Masters in Business · Luis Perez-Breva Explains How to Be ‘Productively Wrong’ · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“This may not sound immediately intuitive because there is nothing intuitive about scale up. So ideas per se don't scale. What scales up is organizations. Which is that you started with five people and doing a few of those. And it's not about how many you do, it's being able to do the same for less money with more people in some way. So you get to 50 people. And you have more products, but each of them costs you less This should not be logical, right? Doing more products should cost you more money. So even though we've gotten used to the idea that with volume comes chipping, you got economies of scale, we call it that way, but we don't really understand.”
2018-02-28 · Masters in Business · Luis Perez-Breva Explains How to Be ‘Productively Wrong’ · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I actually mean it in a very good way. It's like, it's never been so easy for you to get another kind of education altogether. You go online and you can find information about whatever you want. Can build any kind of contraption, you can put it to your service, the science we don't, what everybody else has experimented before. This was not available when I was a student. Actually, I was one of the first people to play with the internet when I was a student in Barcelona. And this was not there. If it had been there, it was fantastic. Why go through all these degrees? And so what I feel is like if people understand how easy it is to put technology to your service, which I hope I can get to do eventually with this form of AI that makes science and technology more playable, then it's never been easier to just drive your education based on the project you want to do today. And if you actually understand how to scale things up, you can actually make a living of it. And I think it's a responsibility of all of us to take advantage of the fact that innovation or the tools for innovation have been so commoditized.”
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“Figured it out, right? So now I can actually go to that next kind of AI that no one is thinking about because everybody is obsessed with data as opposed to what we can have computers do for us, which is what I really want.”
2018-02-28 · Masters in Business · Luis Perez-Breva Explains How to Be ‘Productively Wrong’ · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I've always used computers ever since I was eight to have them do what I wanted. And I've been obsessed about how to make that dumb machine work for me forever. And every time everything I've done has actually to some degree or another involved computers. When I got into AI, I wanted to take this to the next level, which is I need AI to have me do and continue earn and play with the science I still don't know. So I can reach further and make up new stuff. So I never got that from my PhD and I spent a number of years trying to figure out what I thought I was missing, which is how do you actually solve a real world problem? What does it actually even mean? And how do I bring this into the equation? So that motivation is what kept me going for the last 10 years, though I could not phrase it as such until I finished the book and said,”
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“Which doesn't mean it doesn't take a lot of work. It does take a lot of work. But it's actually far simpler to do. And you can actually practice it. Whereas people start to think about are you born, are you made? And strange questions. That was what motivated me to say, okay, fine, I need to write this down because there is no way they could ever get it anywhere because all the other books say ask you to fail and I'd rather they succeed. So that was one piece. In hindsight, what this allowed me to do is realize why I've been camping in academia. It kind of helped me bring a bunch of thoughts together. So if you look at my funny story arc, there is just one constant all throughout, which is that I've always made computers do my bidding.”
2018-02-28 · Masters in Business · Luis Perez-Breva Explains How to Be ‘Productively Wrong’ · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“But in hindsight, the motivation was, the true motivation was that I've been teaching this for now a decade. And I know of all the problems, confusions, paradoxes that forming my students' heads. And the money is spent trying to disabuse them of prejudices so that they see it's actually far simpler.”
2018-02-28 · Masters in Business · Luis Perez-Breva Explains How to Be ‘Productively Wrong’ · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source