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The Future of War Is Here

Plain English with Derek Thompson

CHAPTER

The Importance of Learning Faster

The military because of all their incentives, like they built a system that was kind of dialed in for it, right? Like they wanted safe, predictable, large scale things and they got it. But then that is what works against you when you need to move fast,. When you need to actually do things where you can absorb more risk, you can have these systems just get out there faster and learn faster. If you're not tuned for that world, it is very, very hard. I think startups can do well. They can say, I don't have this legacy business where 95% of my money is coming from the platform I made 30 years ago. My success is contingent on

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