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Nikola Tesla
니콜라 테슬라
Inventor of the AC induction motor and polyphase power systems
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Principles
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Seek Strategic Partnerships for Commercialization
StrategyTechnical inventions often require the engineering resources and branding power of established companies to reach a mass market.
Leverage Personal Milestones for PR
MarketingUse recurring personal events to gather the press, share progress, and maintain public interest in long-term projects.
Document your work for posterity
ContentWriting books and articles ensures that inventions and ideas are preserved and accessible to future generations.
Invest in Discovery
WealthCapital should be viewed as a tool for experimentation and making discoveries that improve human life rather than just a store of value.
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Our virtues and our failings are inseparable, like force and matter. When they separate, man is no more.
Source Nikola Tesla Wikiquote: Nikola Tesla, 1900 (opens in a new tab)
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Focus on Relative Security
StrategySecurity often depends on the relative strength compared to others rather than absolute magnitude, suggesting that proportional reductions can maintain stability.
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Solve for economic feasibility
StrategyTechnical efficiency is only half the battle; commercial success depends on producing the necessary conditions at an economical cost.
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Bridge gaps through shared knowledge
LeadershipConflicts often stem from mutual ignorance, so the best way to foster cooperation is to systematically share information and understand different perspectives.
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Seek mastery over nature's forces
TechnologyTrue human progress comes from discovering and harnessing the immense imprisoned energies of nature to eliminate waste and automate labor.
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Tune for optimal capacity
StrategySuccess often depends on adjusting variables like frequency and strength until the system's capacity perfectly matches the environmental conditions.
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Design for maximum output safety
ProductReversing standard configurations can lead to better performance and reduced risk of failure in technical products.
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Iterative Improvement for Efficiency
ProductA product should be refined through successive stages of adding components like condensers or adjusting coils to optimize performance.
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However impracticable this plan of working may appear in many cases, it certainly seems practicable, and even recommendable, in the production of light.
Source Nikola Tesla Experiments with Alternate Currents of High Potential and High Frequency: A Lecture Delivered before the Institution of Electrical Engineers, London, 1892 (opens in a new tab)
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Leverage Natural Forces
CreativityTrue long-term success comes from finding ways to attach human systems to the existing energy and kinetic forces of nature.
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However impracticable this plan of working may appear in many cases, it certainly seems practicable, and even recommendable, in the production of light.
Source Nikola Tesla Experiments with Alternate Currents of High Potential and High Frequency: A Lecture Delivered before the Institution of Electrical Engineers, London, 1892 (opens in a new tab)
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Account for Environmental Interference
StrategyThe performance of a product can be significantly altered by the proximity and electrostatic action of neighboring objects.
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Match Frequency to Medium
TechnologyUse high-frequency currents when the interaction with gas is essential, as they pass through rarefied gases more freely and with less violent impact than steady currents.
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In a chemical process we are limited. When oxygen and hydrogen combine, they fall, metaphorically speaking, from a definite height.
Source Nikola Tesla Experiments with Alternate Currents of High Potential and High Frequency: A Lecture Delivered before the Institution of Electrical Engineers, London, 1892 (opens in a new tab)
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Simplify by changing the medium
TechnologyEliminate unnecessary parts like return wires by utilizing high-frequency energy that can be transmitted through glass or air.
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