Tag: business
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United Airlines CEO: ‘We’re probably doing more AI than anyone’ – Finding what AI is useful for: ”’We started with an enormous number of [AI] use cases, and we whittled it down to the use cases that we want to spend money on,’ COO and President John Waldron said during an investor conference last week.…
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Reinvent the Wheel – ”Reinvent for insight. Reuse for impact.”
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Dark Leisure – ”in many orgs, there is too little incentive to pass on these productivity gains by telling your manager: “i found this neat tool that lets me do 8h of work in 3h! give me more work!”” // Some “real workers of the world unite” vibes.
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It’s Not About “Nice” – ”So next time you read about organizations moving away from ‘nice,’ what they’re really doing is voluntarily choosing to lower their own performance and demotivate their talent.”
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Patience, plumbing, and the pricing of everything
Relative to your interests When was peak message in a bottle? – Only 80s kids will get this: “grandfather clocks; suits of armour; quicksand; spontaneous human combustion.” Also: big foot and UFOs. Is it Euro-poor, or Ameri-poor? – Checks out on both sides. Pricing: A List of Tactics – Some mind-tricks to play with pricing.…
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The coyote trap. – “Call it whatever you will, I don’t care, but we’re on a new path and companies are doing more than ever to extract every ounce of value out of everyone in the payroll system. I talked to a long time friend and former colleague who went from team leader to division…
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Anthropic closes $2.5 billion credit facility – “Annualized revenue reached $2 billion in the first quarter, the company confirmed, more than doubling from a $1 billion rate in the prior period. Revenue chief Kate Jensen said in a recent interview with CNBC that the number of customers spending more than $100,000 annually with Anthropic jumped…
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Why Bro Culture Still Holds Teams Back at Work –
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The Titan Who Couldn’t Let Go – Founder mode case study: “There’s a pattern here, and it’s bigger than Hughes. Obsession works–in short bursts, in narrow contexts, with clear feedback loops. But scale it up, let it harden into infrastructure, and it starts to rot the system from the inside. Hughes structurally disallowed any process…
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Getting things “done” in large tech companies – If the executives don’t know you did something cool, you didn’t do something cool. Legible.
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Navigating Private Equity ownership. –
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What do tariffs on Canadian goods have to do with me? – Sherwood News – Bacon and lumber to be more expensive, among other things.
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A theory of Elons – If you can get away with breaking regulations and laws, you can gain competitive advantage over those who don’t.
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5 Questions to Help Your Team Make Better Decisions – (1) What Would Happen if We Did Nothing? (2) What Could Make Us Regret This Decision? (3) What Alternatives Did We Overlook? (4) How Will We Know If This Was the Right Decision? (5) Is This Decision Reversible?
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Top EDI Processes You Should Automate With API – Tech never dies. Helpful consequence: take care of it before it takes care of you.
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Why it’s nice to compete against a large, profitable company – Because, they can’t lower prices on their core products least Wall Street freak-the-fuck out.
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[Learning from my mistakes…](https://substack.com/home/post/p-156657600) – It’s tough to monetize content that has near zero value or originality, and be easily pirated. This especially true if the price is wrong. That sort of applies to every product. // “In the end though, you can’t optimise your way out of a black hole, the gravity is too…
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Why are big tech companies so slow? – Because they build, sell, and support a lot features.
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All hat, no cowboy – A bicycle for your hands: “Becoming a good programmer takes time, so does becoming an artist. What if all the people with ideas but no time or skills or persistence or real interest could participate and _turn their ideas into the thing?_Surely non-musicians have great ideas for songs that they…
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Trump cribs Musk’s “fork in the road” Twitter memo to slash gov’t workforce – Big layoff vibes for 2025.