I joined Tesla to bring in agile, but quickly found out Tesla had a lot to teach. ABI-agile.com. My startup became the largest EV Race Team in Japan?
Fukuoka, Japan
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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.
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I taught at #MIT, #Harvard, #CarnegieMelon, more. Where did I learn? As an employee at #Tesla. Working at Tesla rebooted my 🧠. Now I am like a cyborg, sent back in time to heal the past. And so is everyone else who worked in a musk company. Effing amazing. TY teams.
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Elon has been right about every share price milestone so far. And he predicted a 25T market cap. That means the stock price has 17.24x to grow. If you put $100,000 in now, you are likely to get $17,240,000. When? Dunno. But likely. *not financial advice omg lol
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$100,000 x 17.24 is $1.7 Million not $17 Million as the post states. There is an error in his math.
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Get ready for a TSLA split. I don’t know when, but shares need to be affordable for the factory workforce. That’s what keeps the unions out- most union rules prohibit union members from owning employer company stock (idiotic I know). Unions block cross-functional workers (idiotic I know) which is key to Tesla’s fast problem solving style. Anyway, for the stock, the multiplier effect is gonna be pleasant. Merry Christmas.
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Just picked up our made in Shanghai model Y performance, planning to tear it down with @teardowntitan advice from @live_munro in Japan!
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I passed! I am officially certified as capable of the absolute lowest level language proficiency acknowledged by the Japanese government! Basically I can follow simple instructions when spoken slowly. That was AMAZINGLY HARD WORK (for me at least).
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.. Ok I zoomed in (TY @HansCNelson @RustyRoad @tothemoon35 ) this is “the board” and these are the KPI’s the workers self-organizes around. E.g. number of seconds in North Paint. Each of these is an experiment to move towards the company mission statement. The data under is autonomously gathered and cleaned in real time. This is the #JusticeBoard that replaced what most companies think is management. At 5am I would look here (or one of the many screens cycling through subsets of this data) and decide where to work next.
.. Ok I zoomed in (FYI @HansCNelson @RustyRoad @tothemoon35 ) this is “the board” and these are the KPI’s the workers self-organizes around. E.g. number of seconds in North Paint. Each of these is an experiment to move towards the company mission statement. The data under is autonomously gathered and cleaned in real time. This is the #JusticeBoard that replaced what most companies think is management. At 5am I would look here (or one of the many screens cycling through subsets of this data) and decide where to work next.
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Paying a living wage and inspecting for quality service is not my job as the customer. Do not outsource these to me. I only wish to dine in restaurants that pay a living wage and inspect their own service quality. The tipping system is broken.
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I recently sat down with a #WallStreet analyst for a major firm and they kindly showed me, live, how they actually assess the value $TSLA. The analyst apologized, after taking my #JoeDX class they realized their assessment did not put any value on #PaceOfInnovation, #ProductPipeline, #LowCostToChange, or even company track record. It was solely based on recent public sentiment including mainstream media influence.
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Neuralink makes new hardware every 45min, government approved. SpaceX made 1,000 hardware changes to the world’s largest rocket in 69 days. Agile hardware is possible. It is already happening.
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And there's a paperback now too! I'm super proud of this book, Chapter 16: SWITCH is strong even all by itself!
amazon.com/dp/B08W2GT1KH/
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I'm not inside Tesla anymore and have similar information to anyone else. My WISH for the Model 3 evolution (project highland) is Plaid power, a yoke steering wheel, and a true hatchback. I LOVE my Plaid S, but I simply prefer the size of the Model 3 and the single screen.
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Headed back into #ToyotaCity RN. I have a profound opportunity today and I will take it seriously, enjoy it, and do my absolute best. Maybe what I do today will amplify the work of hundreds of thousands of people and nudge history.
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Sadly, I’m not good enough. And, I’m really good! But it’s the best of the best of the best for @xai , and I really respect that. Please share how people in a situation like mine can still support the mission. 👍
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Putting the autopilot stack on a humanoid platform creates excellent training inputs for the stack. Stack is already running all over the factories on smart carts, stationary rigs, manipulator arms, presses, more. humanoid factor adds agile holy grail: human centered design.
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Joe Justice and @anthonylopez114 - What is it like to work inside Giga Texas vs Giga Fremont?!
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I am so grateful to have worked inside this company. Everyday was like playing with the world’s largest Lego set.
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Trying to explain the future value of $TSLA today is like trying to explain the current global GDP to a 14th century shell trader. “But there are only 4,000 shells of tradable quality?! What do you mean #PrintMoney and #GrowthEconomy?!” The upside is that big. #NotFinancialAdvice
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How to get legal approval for many small releases in hardware and software? First, it is possible. Tesla has daily updates in automotive, SpaceX in aerospace, Neuralink in medical devices, Boring Company in construction, X in pure software. Each time, I need to read the actual law, not a summary or article. So far, each time I read the actual law, agile is allowed. Often agile is allowed but must be requested. The requesting application must explain how the agile deliveries will meet the same or better quality, safety, and traceability needs. This extra work is more than enough for most companies to give up and continue enforcing waterfall. That allows the companies that do the extra work and use agile to be much, much faster. SpaceX is the fastest growing aerospace company of all time, with 1,000 changes in hardware in 69 days. Www.Abi-agile.com
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Elon replied to one of my presentations on Twitter yesterday. My Twitter is exploding with speaking and consulting requests. TY very, very much. 🙇♂️💕
LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/joejustice
Books: leanpub.com/u/joejustice
Business: abi-agile.com/en/ see “Agile Hardware Developer”
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Agile hardware. You are never done. Iterate as fast as you can. Launch constantly. There is no schedule, there is no deadline, there is no cadence, only metrics to improve as fast as you can.
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What is an executive in a company that acts in a flat way? Elon is a CEO and joins mobs (group work) directly. Elon joins whichever team is the current bottleneck. This is ideal. An executive or any leader should be an ideal contributor. The CEO title means ...
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Model Y range took me out to a remote rental beach home. Amazing end-of-winter experience.
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I intend to post a new video regarding #GigaTexas. likely coming today.
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Japan has one of the lowest murder rates, lowest crime rates, and highest longevity rates. Difficult to measure, but arguably the most polite and considerate of others. But only 4% of the population believes in God or a supreme being. So, how does it work? It’s called Dotoku, a class in all grades, modeled by teachers, and supported by all public services. It teaches how to act and respond in many different situations for a harmonious society.
% of people that believe in God or a supreme being:
🇮🇩 Indonesia: 93%
🇹🇷 Turkey: 91%
🇧🇷 Brazil: 84%
🇿🇦 South Africa: 83%
🇲🇽 Mexico: 78%
🇺🇸 USA: 70%
🇦🇷 Argentina: 62%
🇷🇺 Russia: 56%
🇮🇳 India: 56%
🇵🇱 Poland: 51%
🇮🇹 Italy: 50%
🇨🇦 Canada: 46%
🇭🇺 Hungary: 29%
🇦🇺 Australia: 29%
🇪🇸 Spain: 28%
🇩🇪 Germany: 27%
🇬🇧 UK: 25%
🇧🇪 Belgium: 20%
🇫🇷 France: 19%
🇸🇪 Sweden: 18%
🇰🇷 South Korea: 18%
🇨🇳 China: 9%
🇯🇵 Japan: 4%
Note: As of 2010
Source: Statista
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#SpaceX’s iterative approach: look at these #ProductIncrements. Musk companies are too fast for agile frameworks, too busy engineering for meetings and roles or framework labels accountabilities. This is the real #Agile, working iterations innovating faster than all the rest of the industry combined.
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For me this car is a hero. I drive my kids to school on a mountain road in the morning. Then I drive 12 hours to the race. I place second! Then we go car camping. I love this car.
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It’s glamping with @Starlink in the model Y. Futon in the back (Japan!), and a fancy glass of @ROKUGIN286232.
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I don’t want just funding cuts. I want those who embezzled my tax money to pay it back and go to jail.
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Wow, broccoli 🥦 is over 8% protein. That’s better than most “protein cookies” and better than the yogurt I have in my fridge right now. And trying to get 400g of straight, raw 🥦 into me right now is keeping me feeling super full. This might be awesome.
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Hardware iterations add up. Every engine is a minor version. Now 3 major versions, and v2 was already the most efficient and powerful rocket engine in history. Pace of innovation is the only thing that matters in the long run.
Raptor V3 just achieved 350 bar chamber pressure (269 tons of thrust). Congrats to @SpaceX propulsion team!
Starship Super Heavy Booster has 33 Raptors, so total thrust of 8877 tons or 19.5 million pounds.
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Tesla and SpaceX Speed with #MobAI
X: here.
YouTube: piped.video/watch?v=N-JYhKZV…
Some AMAZING comments- THANK YOU SO MUCH! “These videos are SO ...ING GOOD!!!! Your presentations are so valuable! Thank you for putting them up here for free. You are advancing humanity by doing so.”
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Tesla Digital Self Management (DSM) software finally revealed: piped.video/JOAI1uzZMU4 @TeslaBest @cleantechnica @DrKnowItAll16 @farzyness @AustinTeslaClub @teslahawaiiclub #YeeHaw
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I just completed teaching 7 courses in a row, each in a different city in europe, on what I think I experienced working as an employee for Elon Musk. The Q&A and live audiences helped me clarify and understand more of what I experienced.
It became very clear to me that the society, the social norms and politeness and work ethic, that should spread out to mars and beyond, is a product or service that must be intentionally developed or else only workaholics and 20 somethings will drive out among the stars leaving a lot of civilization confused, left out, and maybe bored.
I tried some updates to Wikispeed.com and even Wikispeed.jp (because I now live in Japan to make use of the politeness and safety trained into the culture through the government mandated “dotoku”, or “ethics” curriculum). These updates are thinking out-loud and still becoming formed. Maybe they intrigue some of you?
Wishing everyone another great day!
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I was considering buying a @Hermes_Paris #Berkin bag 💼 so I could walk into almost any meeting or restaurant with my “laptop and gym clothes bag”and not feel underdressed, but instead today I chose to pay a 15 year old amateur leatherworker in my neighborhood here in Japan to do their best making 2 bags to practice then one for me and have fun doing it. I probably made the right decision. Will report back when I get the bag! 💼
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400 pushups today. Spread out across the day. Not an all time record, but I am very happy.
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Install took me 4 hours and 20 minutes. Seriously. Measured for an hour before I drilled into the car. @APRperformance @tesla @wikispeed @AgileBusinessI1
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No product managers. No designers. The goal is 100% of staff being an engineer. “Everyone is a worker” -Elon Musk
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made a few million in the last few weeks? so what did you do? here's what I did: practiced Japanese for 90 minutes this morning, worked a full day, rushed to the gym on lunch break, but treated myself to a coffee AND a protein shake at the gym.
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I worked 3 12 hour work days, a 36 hour workweek, at Tesla. Often I came in early and stayed late, often it became a 45 hour work week. This was very effective for the pace of innovation.
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July 4th 2022 we finally celebrated our marriage with my family. I am so happy so many family and special friends could attend! My uncle and aunt hosted us at their estate they built themselves. I have so much respect for done projects that size with your own mind and sweat!
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If Lean thinking alone were enough, the best selling car in the world would still be a Toyota. But it isn’t. Combine the experience Lean Thinking with mastering Agile. Prevent hierarchical slowdown and keep people at the center as you scale out and automate.
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The goal of agile hardware is faster releases. Releases in hours, not years. Most organizations will need to change internal policy, contracting, budgeting, and re-org.
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Pace of innovation is the only thing that matters in the long run. In the short term, it is reducing traffic injuries, decreasing pollution, responding to supply chain disruption, increasing customer delight. In the long run it is passing the great filter. Any visible policy in your life or work that limits innovation is your next target for improvement.
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I did 465 pushups today. Spread out across the day.
Maybe I can do 35 more before bed, make it to 500?
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If this person’s words are honest, and I believe they are, and no government is offering tax-free operation and government provided legal and military protection of these social good initiatives, no country at all on earth, then I cannot believe the top goal of any country is to do good.
.@ElonMusk Issues Emotional Statement in the Final Minutes of Don Lemon Interview
“If I died knowing that I did what was right, or did my best to do what was right, and even if in the history books they said I did wrong, I would still feel okay about that. I care about the reality of goodness, not the perception of it.”
“We want to make sure that we don’t have, for example, demographic collapse, which is the case in a lot of countries — just very low birth rate. We want to avoid, obviously avoid, World War 3. Anything that is a civilizational risk. That is what I care about. Civilizational risks.”
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Maybe this is interesting to someone else too:
I spent the last few years looking for where I felt at home, wanting to build a house wherever that may be.
Yesterday, someone I just met said something obvious: it’s more important to be with your good friends. 🎶
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Measure the product not the people. How fast is the product improving? How much did it cost to run the business during that time? That’s what we used at Tesla. Nothing about utilization. All work was mob (group work).
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I had a seat belt error at the track- I tried to read the message when driving. It was my mistake. I should make sure the car has zero distractions before entering the track.
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Automated testing of the I/O of every unit and integration between units is THE bottleneck for innovation. ~50% of project budget should be improving automated testing, every week, forever.
Bath time! 🛁 Our accelerated lifetime tester ages our implants at 4x speed. Developing new ways of expediting long-duration testing at scale allows us to iterate faster, identify low probability failures, and reduce animal use #techtuesday
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.. Ok I zoomed in (FYI @HansCNelson @RustyRoad @tothemoon35 ) this is “the board” and these are the KPI’s the workers self-organizes around. E.g. number of seconds in North Paint. Each of these is an experiment to move towards the company mission statement. The data under is autonomously gathered and cleaned in real time. This is the #JusticeBoard that replaced what most companies think is management. At 5am I would look here (or one of the many screens cycling through subsets of this data) and decide where to work next.
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I placed second in my class at #FujiSpeedway. TY @teslajapan for the media coverage. I love making #EV #Racing memories with my family. I just bought 5 more @TeslaOwners_JP #Teslas, so I’m recruiting drivers for next year. ¥100,000 a race ok to start? Let’s go!
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Unpopular opinion: you don’t need to be gluten free, vegan, lactose free, or even drink less alcohol or eat less sugar. You need to live in a place where it is illegal to sell poison and call it food.
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He really is a tremendously good driver. EV champion 3 years already. I now so kind. He offered me all the medals as I am the car owner. Of course I said no, I’ll learn from him and eventually earn my own- that will feel better.
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1) Hardware and Software product management is the same. 2) you will likely be the only one to think it is the same. 3) the factory is the compiler, if it’s not in the same room as design you will never get the exciting test-and-learn feeling.
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Hey Teslanairs, should we invest together to make SpaceX Habs, starting as ultra-awesome houses right here on earth, and developing the manufacturing and tech to supply the SpaceX Railroad out among the stars with future worthy housing?
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Make your batcave. Make your workshop. Your laboratory. Make it cheap to maintain, low rent or low land tax; inspiration comes and goes on its own schedule and burning cash when you don’t have the fire to work could mentally associate your building place with stress or waste. Maybe it’s a walk-in closet, a garage, a basement, an attic, a warehouse or a factory. But make it. Or you lived only experiencing atoms organized by someone else, somewhere else.
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My mighty @Tesla Y and I fight from last place (my mistake) to 2nd place (in my class) at #FujiSpeedway in Japan! Thank you @KIMI_0846 for showing such excellent racing alongside the amazing @Hyundai_Global #IoniqN5N cars, all three of them, which ran very, very, very well and fast. I make MANY mistakes in this race, BIG ONES, like, starting in Park.... so .. ummm... enjoy?!
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If the product is virtual, like software, remote mob is almost as good as an in person mob. But when the product is physical…. There is no replacement for being within touching distance of the machine and material you are improving.
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Object Oriented Hardware. I know @jamescoplien disagrees, but this is exactly it. Engineering from the hardware API backwards as lean as responsible. #AgileHardware @xdatap1 @jeffpatton @WardCunningham
Cooling ribbons with "U-turn coolant return" is a big deal. $TSLA
I foresee this innovation will be used in Tesla's 4680 Structural Pack: battery coolant inlet & outlet manifolds will be located at the front of the pack, a very short distance from the octovalve & thermo-pump.
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"We have to smash the Toyota Way." "I felt strongly that...It was the difficulty of innovating in peacetime." "We now know what we need to do to further accelerate change." "When I went to the field and looked at the products, I could see that the important thing was to put energy into the change points."
These are the words of Akio Toyoda, then CEO of Toyota Motor Corporation. #JoeDX #MobAI @AgileBusinessI1
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This is 60g of protein. I target 170g of protein per day. I get so full on protein that I really only want to eat raw vegetables after that. Virtuous cycle.
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I learned every minute working at Tesla. I journaled each morning and night and worked or visited every position in Fremont. I continue to share what I learned as I unravel it. That time there, for me, was master class in company operation.
There's also @JoeJustice who talks about agile development at Tesla. Super interesting and highly underrated channel piped.video/@JoeJustice0
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Learning Japanese is INCREDIBLY DIFFICULT FOR ME. But I've learned more than 2,000 words this year. I'm taking night classes and using apps and fun paper notebook exercises meant for pre-school and 1st grade kids. I'm putting myself way outside my comfort zone in #Japanese language conversations every day, even though I'm wrong and look foolish most if not all the time. But, the results are adding up. I can understand little bits of conversations as people walk by, I can myself loosely understood in more types of situations. I have bad days where I just study for 5 minutes on my phone, but little by little it is getting better. If you use #Duolingo, you can find me as "JoeJustice0", and I'll cheer for you, and please please please encourage me, too!
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After a week of rapid work in the Tokyo office, I am pleased to be back home in Hawaii.
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For those who care- Elon said just Optimus would take the company to a $25T evaluation. Other products will obviously take it much further.
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soooo.... OpenAi just made their next major play to win. All other players have to match it or loose. @xai what's the plan? Or do I have to have a civilazation controlled by woke, non-fact based AGI that doesn't love humans?
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