Tom Pierce
5 statements across 1 episodes · 2 bullish · 0 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Aug 22, 2023 by Tom Pierce · across every show →
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Aug 22, 2023
Tom Pierce: I have walked away from military and defense contracting projects
“There is a point at which when you feel like that whatever the person you're trying to help wants to do is something you really can't support, then you back away. And I've done that even in uniform, and I've certainly done that as a defense contractor.”
Aug 22, 2023 positive
Pierce: People want to do good work unless perverse incentives intervene
“If you don't misalign your incentives, I think pretty much everybody goes to work hoping to do a good job.
I think everybody wants to be good at what they do at some level, and they want to do something that is helpful to people until you impose all the perver…”
Aug 22, 2023 positive
Aug 22, 2023 neutral
Tom Pierce: Information Loses Fidelity and Trust Across Intermediate Transformation Layers
“No transformation of information is a hundred percent efficient either. Something is always lost in translation, and the more onion layers it goes through, From source to destination, the less trustworthy it becomes and the more painful it is to extract.”
Aug 22, 2023
Tom Pierce: 1980s Military Logistics Team Built the First Wireless Modem
“Early in the days of doing the ammunition programming, we were actually involved, we had a teammate That was developing a state of the art technology to encrypt and decrypt signals receiving transmitted over FM radio. And then we added in the wireless modem, t…”