Posts in "food"
Migas from another mother
I have been trying to figure out fatteh. Here are some recent attempts.
I still don’t know if I actually like this dish, but it is super fun to make. It’s sort of - and pardon any cultural offense here, I don’t even know what the aesthetic-mores of this food culture are - like Lebanese migas.
Monolithic Transformation, the webinar
I’ve got a newly recorded webinar, covering my Monolithic Transformation book:
The cliché we all recite is that technology isn't the problem, culture is. Put another way: if the hardware and software are fine and fresh, it must be the meatware that smells. Come hear several de-funking recipes from the world’s largest companies whose meat now smells proper. I answered a few attendee questions in the webinar, and answered the rest in a Twitter thread afterwards.
Coté Memo #058: Cloud ads, amateur coffee drinkers, orchiwhu?
Follow-up Confirmed: ActiveState is far from dead ;)
One of you notified me that maybe coffee isn’t so bad for your health - really, who knows. I hear eating a lot of bread was once a thing too. From the article:
Why the apparent reversal in the thinking about coffee? Earlier studies didn’t always take into account that known high-risk behaviors, such as smoking and physical inactivity, tended to be more common among heavy coffee drinkers at that time.
The first wave of IBM/Apple enterprise iOS apps
A good looking list from the press release:
Plan Flight (Travel and Transportation) addresses the major expense of all airlines — fuel — permitting pilots to view flight schedules, flight plans, and crew manifests ahead of time, report issues in-flight to ground crews, and make more informed decisions about discretionary fuel.
Passenger+ (Travel and Transportation) empowers flight crews to offer an unmatched level of personalized services to passengers in-flight – including special offers, re-booking, and baggage information.
The single over-arching theme is this idea is that one should not compete, one should try to differentiate really hard. You want to do things that are one of a kind, you want to do something like a monopoly. You don’t want to do things that put you in cut-throat competition, like opening a restaurant.
[www.marketwatch.com/story/pet…
More for the “tech world is not normal world” files.
Coté Memo #038: No title, just links
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A small cup of Starbucks coffee contains 250mg of caffeine. For a frame of reference, espresso tops out at about 75mg. Let’s face it: Starbucks sells a drug I am addicted to. And their app allows me to pay for my addiction easily and rewards me with a free vial - I mean cup - of coffee every so often. I also get free apps on the iTunes app store.
Information companies can get from free wifi
Here, the example is in airports:
It lets the airport team observe where certain areas might become congested, allowing quicker reaction and reducing the impact on passenger flow.
Furthermore, the heatmapping functionality enables them to overlay demographics, which proves particularly useful when examining the use of certain spaces.
Airports can ascertain where it would be best to place new shops and restaurants, as well as signage and advertisements effectively.