In this episode I talk to Jude Gomilla about distributed innovation systems focused especially around the bottom-up response to the coronavirus crisis. Jude is a physicist, founder and CEO of the knowledge compilation platform Golden, and a prolific angel investor. He’s also been in the thick of the distributed response to the coronavirus response from day one.

Key Takeaways
- There’s a clear gap between market-based distributed systems and a top down systems coordinated by the government but it’s not clear how to fill it.
- Twitter is shockingly important as a coordination tool.
- The concept of centralized top-down problem statements coupled with distributed bottom up solutions may be under explored.

Notes
Gödel finding inconsistencies in the constitution
Jude on Twitter
Golden.com - [especially their cluster on the virus
Feline Coronavirus
Gilead - company working on treatment
Balaji Srinivasan on Twitter
Chris Dixon Idea Maze Article
Cambridge Institute for Manufacturing paper on distributed manufacturing

  • Government as a giant flywheel
  • Claims and counter claims
  • How do you figure out what’s going on quickly without a centralized system?
  • Strategies based on timescales - hybrid strategies
  • Wave 1
  • Ramp up for Wave 2
  • How to respond to the [[‘Someone is working on that’]] problem - related
  • Too much explore vs too much exploit
  • Prizes for solving problems
  • Top down problem generation and bottom up solution generation