Since, however, it is immaterial whether the work is done by assistants or a machine, I decided to build a machine equivalent to an array of about 200 separating funnels.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I made every single piece myself, each individual component, so it was quite time consuming.
'Vanity Fair' did this grid thing a couple years ago, connecting people who've worked together, and I had the most branches on it or whatever, because I'd worked with so-and-so and so-and-so worked with so-and-so, and I was kind of in the middle.
I make work a bit like how you mix cocktails - with ingredients like budget, history and location.
I'm usually working on eight or 10 things at once.
Engineers love to optimize problems. Now I optimize logistical problems. I ask: 'What's the goal? What are our constraints? What is the optimal, elegant way to get to that goal within those constraints?' I break it down in terms of a data funnel: 'Where in the funnel are we inefficient?' That analytical background really helps.
My goal is to create friend machines. Friendly genius machines. Machines with genius capabilities.
I can make just such ones if I had tools, and I could make tools if I had tools to make them with.
Back in the '40s and early '50s, building simple electronic projects was a popular hobby of many people. Back then, you could buy, you know, a few parts and - with tubes and build something on your kitchen table, and it would actually work.
I've always done 20 things at once. It's my way of staying alive, not to keep one dish cooking, but several dishes going. And I'm pretty organized.
One of my primary objects is to form the tools so the tools themselves shall fashion the work and give to every part its just proportion.