JoeJustice 💪🦾

ABB is a large international hardware company. ABB makes electric power systems, including a lot of the large electrical hardware at many Tesla Supercharger installations around the world. ABB restructured parts of their company, some of the product engineering parts and some of HR and other areas, to give the engineers more authority. The leader said they wanted real agile, where engineers don't wait to be told what products to build, but proactively try products in the market to find what helps customers and grows the company. That was 3 years ago. They wanted to re-energize the staff. They requested me to give a shocking, exciting, inspiring keynote about engineers as product leaders to reduce waiting and increase innovation. They joined from offices in Italy and Switzerland and I joined remote from Japan. I am so so grateful the ABB sponsors then let me share the recording publicly.

@yunta_tsai “Work is beautiful”

One thing I noticed when traveling in Japan was the absence of small robots. They have toys like robot pets, but no small robots for households. Same as cars. The Toyota felt like the same Toyota I drove many years ago, even it’s completely new. On the television, there’s zero presence of autonomy but you could see ads of manual house cleaning products targeting old grandma. There was an ad to compare two different microfibers and asked a grandma to be the judge for mopping. Yes, I live in autonomy bubbles. But robotic cultures in Japan— anime, manga, conferences — had heavily shaped my youth. It’s kind of shocked the completely absence of autonomy in an aging society while China is objectively doing better in this regard.

Yeah this is the complete opposite mindset of the general culture in Japan. And I cannot say which is “right” anymore. Which wolf do I feed next? 🤔💭

@yunta_tsai @grok please provide a list of such things.

The feeling of usefulness is mutual — people want to spend time making useful things, and at the same time they enjoy using products that are useful when they are not working. The best combination in the world would be making useful things that you could also enjoy.

Yes. If this can be your idea of a good time too, if you can train and guide and pattern this way of thinking, you will create value and be successful. This is the opposite of “Netflix and chill” that has been advertised to you.

Glad someone said it so clearly.

@yunta_tsai I prefer Rudy’s, but this is a great benchmark test.

TerryBlackUnsupervisedBench 😆

@linuxbox @SirWiseSam I hope. Grok for code is truly unusably bad, in my naive hands at least, in its current state. I want X to win, truth, fact checking, multiplanet civilization!

@JoeJustice @SirWiseSam Elon said by summer it'll get the coding upgrade to be as good as Claude

Dunno about anyone else, but Grok Heavy is complete junk for me at basic coding. It won't run regression tests, won't render it's own output, relies on me to check each iteration with frequent quality regressions. It's worse than a drunk ADHD intern.

@FedericoTenga @booliontweets @Devon_Eriksen_ Living in Japan these last 3 years, and visiting the memorials with Japanese, I have a tiny insight. The Japanese themselves seem to feel similarly about all war casualties, on all sides, from all causes. It’s those outside Japan that seem fascinated about nuclear deaths.

@Devon_Eriksen_ The only reason why Tokyo wasn't a target of the atomic bombs is because it was already completely leveled by prior incendiary bombing raids. I find interesting that nobody cares about the Japanese who died in traditional bombing, as if dying from an atomic bomb is somehow worse

The Japanese love to pretend that they were just sitting around on the beach braiding flowers into each other's hair when the evil round-eyed devils suddenly targeted them for a weapons test. Let's see what the Japanese did: 1. Literally allied themselves with the literal nazis. 2. Launched military attacks on neutral powers without a declaration of war. 3. Committed their own separate Holocaust in Asia with a far greater body count: approximately 30 million. 4. Conducted medical experiments on prisoners of war including vivisection, amputations without anesthesia, and testing of biological weapons. 5. Used chemical weapons on over 2000 occasions, including on civilian targets and prisoners of war. 6. Tortured prisoners of war. 7. Executed prisoners of war. 8. Used Filipino civilians as human shields. 9. Ate prisoners of war. Yes, you read that correctly. 10. Committed mass rape of civilian women in conquered territories. 11. Feigned surrender to draw Allied forces into ambush. 12. Attacked hospital ships at sea. In short, during WW2, the entire nation of Japan descended to a level of savagery that made the nazis and even the communists look like amateurs. By contrast, Hiroshima and Nagasaki were selected as military targets, and were struck three days apart, giving the Japanese a chance to surrender after the first attack, which they did not do. Casualties inflicted by both attacks equaled 0.76% of the victims of Japanese war crimes. Not only were the twin nuclear strikes entirely justified, they were a measured, controlled, and understated response. It would have made complete sense for the United States to use one or both weapons to level Tokyo instead. The imperial Japanese were worse than the nazis. Their body count was worse, their atrocities were worse, their evil was worse. And the moral of this story is "don't be a fucking fascist, don't do fascist shit, and then decent people won't have to kill you in order to save innocent lives".

@SirWiseSam For now I have to keep grok in the iPad category. Great for dicking around. Not yet appropriate for real, productive, useful or important work.

@JoeJustice Coding needs an upgrade. It’s why I still pay for Claude.

@SirWiseSam I see I see I see.

@lovecars_jp @teslajapan If FSD arrives, I’ll likely buy one.

【速報】テスラさん、日本のミニバン狩りに来てる 本日発表の新型「モデルYL」は、 ✅モデルYより180mm長い4980mm ✅ホイールベースはモデルX超えの3040mmで3列目も余裕 ✅2列目は専用キャプテンシート。電動アームレストあり ✅0-100km/h加速は5.0秒 ✅AWDのワングレードで航続距離788km ✅ラゲッジ容量2500L超 ✅価格は749万円。補助金127万円で実質622万円 ✅東京はさらに40万円でて582万円 多人数乗車SUVや日本ミニバンを狩る実力とコスパ。ゲームチェンジャーどころか敵なしの1台 #lovecarstv #テスラ #ModelY #ModelYL

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@jeffreyweichsel @xai @grok I do. Let’s do this.

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@OLRench 🎉

Thank you for featuring Japanese EV racing.🫶🏻

Thanks, we have a lot of fun with it. @JEVRA_jp @JEVRA_X @niccruzpatane

@DresssirTokyo A lovely story, a lovely philosophy, a lovely photo. Thank you.

Lucas Studio, or a Trompe-l'œil Illusion? Rugby players and heavyweight judoka tend to split the seat of their trousers. Thick thighs, constant friction, fabric worn thin — it's physically inevitable. That's why trousers cut with a deep rise and generous fabric have a beauty born of necessity. In Japanese, we call this You no bi 用の美 — the beauty of function. A lovely phrase. Still, accidents happen. A friend of mine who runs a small publishing house called Pneuma Inc. in Fujiyoshida got a little drunk, rode a park slide, and tore a massive hole in the seat of his pants. Good grief. But that's part of his charm. The repair job was something to see. Given the size of the hole, he patched it boldly with whatever fabric was on hand — a fuse, a sewn-in panel. At first glance you'd never notice. Stitched over with a zigzag on the machine, unapologetically. And that's just fine. He did it to himself, after all. If someone spots it now and then and wonders about it — that's his introduction. His story, worn right into the cloth. Japan's education tends to prize the correct answer. But the insistence on this is how it must be done may just be a mold for making obedient workers. Enjoy yourself within the bounds of the responsibility you can own. Take stock of the situation, and work with it. The design that emerges isn't just the maker's vision — it's the mark of a life actually lived. A garment with a patch is never uncool. Wear it with confidence. P.S. The cherry blossom in the photo is from a sakura tree in the backyard of my favorite ramen shop, tucked away at the eastern edge of Tokyo.

Sandstorm Run, through the music video set. youtube.com/watch?v=LLWkzP… This is exactly my style.

@AliciaLoyGriff2 I like them all, but none have internal area to make habitable space. 🤔💭

@JoeJustice have you given thought to which Concept SculpturalPrototype you would like for your house there in Japan? DM me or email me.#livingInsideASculpturalPrototype