How technology loses out in companies, countries & continents and what to do about it

Why HN readers recommended it

HN points to it as a sharper explanation of why outsourcing and specialization erode deep expertise, in threads on Intel, Boeing and software decline.

This is a summary from the source dataset, not an endorsement by Hacker News or the video creator.

Video & recommendation details

Creator / channel

bert hubert

Topic

loss of technological leadership

Format

talk

Level

general

HN recommenders in dataset

2

HN mentions in dataset

5

Recommendation years in dataset

2022–2024

These counts and years describe the included Hacker News records; they are not YouTube views or the video’s publication date.

From the original HN conversations

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• I quite like Jonathan Blow. I think this talk is kind of poor though, I remember watching it a couple of years ago in its full context (linked in the youtube description: [LINK] ). IIRC it had a bit of a "kids these days" / …

• I quite like Jonathan Blow. I think the talk mentioned in this post is kind of poor though, I remember watching it a couple of years ago in its full context ( [LINK] ). IIRC it had a bit of a "kids these days" / …

• Probably a repost, but this excellent video talks about the problems with outsourcing everything (i.e. the L J Hart-Smith report) [VIDEO] - the report itself is fairly accessible and an eye-opener on what happens when you outsource all of your core competency. The only remaining …