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# How do you predict where phase transitions occur in materials?
# How do you predict where phase transitions occur in materials



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# Safi Bahcall on Why You Need to Take Crazy Risks
The idea of tension between [[Innovators and franchisees]]
Why do ideas get stuck in the lab?
No bridge between the core and the new
Different languages
Core - don’t want clanking noise from nuclear engine 
New - don’t want to be surprised by new torpedo
How do we balance the two?
[Safi Bahcall on Why You Need to Take Crazy Risks — Masters in Business — Overcast](https://overcast.fm/+JWZT3Zx1Q/07:04)

James Bond movies were passed over for years
[Safi Bahcall on Why You Need to Take Crazy Risks — Masters in Business — Overcast](https://overcast.fm/+JWZT3Zx1Q/23:23)

Anesthesia discovered because someone in the lab put chemical on his tongue and thought “oh that’s weird.”
[Safi Bahcall on Why You Need to Take Crazy Risks — Masters in Business — Overcast](https://overcast.fm/+JWZT3Zx1Q/31:39)

Modeling human interactions like phase transitions in materials. 
[Safi Bahcall on Why You Need to Take Crazy Risks — Masters in Business — Overcast](https://overcast.fm/+JWZT3Zx1Q/34:01)

Stake vs Rank - same people, different incentives. In small organization stake is huge rank perks are not there. Look at what hallway conversations are about - projects or politics.
[Safi Bahcall on Why You Need to Take Crazy Risks — Masters in Business — Overcast](https://overcast.fm/+JWZT3Zx1Q/52:22)

[[Vanneavar Bush]] was the master of managing the transfer not the technology. [[National Science Foundation (NSF)]] basically addressing market failures.
[Safi Bahcall on Why You Need to Take Crazy Risks — Masters in Business — Overcast](https://overcast.fm/+JWZT3Zx1Q/52:22)

If you enable people to measure the real world, more people can figure out truth. However you need multiple systems of support for doing that because many people won’t like it.
[Safi Bahcall on Why You Need to Take Crazy Risks — Masters in Business — Overcast](https://overcast.fm/+JWZT3Zx1Q/1:00:51)

## Questions
- [[How do you predict where phase transitions occur in materials?]]
- [[What are the passed-over ideas today?]]
## Thoughts
- [[Discoveries happen when people have the ability to go “oh that’s weird”]]
## Related
This is basically the compressed version of [[bahcallLoonshotsHowNurture2019]]
## Authors
[[Safi Bahcall]]
## Link
[Safi Bahcall on Why You Need to Take Crazy Risks — Masters in Business — Overcast](https://overcast.fm/+JWZT3Zx1Q)

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