Tag: Disruption
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🤖 Summary of “Economist Tyler Cowen on the positive side of AI negativity” podcast
The below is a summary of the original transcript from ChatGPT 5.2. Conclusion: Cowen’s core claim is simple and sharp: in the US, most people won’t lose jobs to AI, they’ll lose them to other people who use AI better. The real bottleneck isn’t models or GPUs – it’s institutions, habits, status hierarchies, and people’s…
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Practical platform engineering, the industry analyst business dies again, personal utopia – three good videos
Three good videos Platform Engineering 2025: What “great”’ looks like now. Most platform engineering talks are very frustrating for me. The same stuff over and over since about 2015. The platform engineering space is rife with people who’ve made the monumental mistake of thinking Kubernetes is a platform and then finding out they have so…
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America Voted For Chaos. The Markets Are Feeling the Punch. – Dumb disruption: “Disruption can be a positive force. But over the last decade, it has become a hand-wave that forgives and excuses irresponsible governance, poor decision-making, and financial incompetence. The reason you can’t run the government like a startup is simple: 90% or more…
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Are better models better? – “Part of the concept of ‘Disruption’ is that important new technologies tend to be bad at the things that matter to the previous generation of technology, but they do something else important instead.”
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That time when Microsoft bought and killed Nokia phone unit – “Barely two years after it was announced, the whole thing fell apart and Microsoft wrote the whole thing off as a tax loss.” And: “Elop was right, but his solution wasn’t.” // “Disruption” is an easy word to say, but a very difficult one…
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– Innovator’s Dilemma dynamics – “while a $40 million company needs to find just $8 million in revenues to grow at 20 percent in the subsequent year, a $4 billion company needs to find $800 million in new sales. No new markets are that large. As a consequence, the larger and more successful an organization…
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Banking “disruption,” or whatever – part 01
There’s near universal sentiment that traditional banks need to shift to improve and protect their businesses against financial startups, so called “FinTechs.” These startups create banks that are often 100% online, even purely as a mobile app. The release of Apple Pay highlights how these banks are different: they’re faster, more customer experience focused, and…
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Link: Shipping giant Maersk on taking a cloud-first approach to disrupting the competition
“When we moved to the cloud the first time, we cut down the lead time for an environment from 100 days to 85 days. This is self-inflicted lead time… processes that are keeping you from moving faster,” he said. “We also had 30 people involved in a classic delivery, and we figured the cost was…
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Link: Amazon, Berkshire Hathaway and JPMorgan Team Up to Try to Disrupt Health Care
Good example of lots of context for a story. Original source: Amazon, Berkshire Hathaway and JPMorgan Team Up to Try to Disrupt Health Care
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Coté Memo #082: Disrupting with high prices, indulging in colonialism porn, and dying among the tomatoes. Oh, and Docker!
Come to the Austin Docker Meetup this Thursday (Jan 7th) to see me and some much smarter people talk about “The Container State of the Union.” See below for some of the “prep” work I’ve done. Also in this edition, new types of disruption theory, compliance in DevOps, books, and a smalll, interesting link round-up.…
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Some things that are poor businesses
Doctors have obligations to their patients, teachers to their students, pastors to their congregations, curators to the public, and journalists to their readers—obligations that lie outside the realm of earnings, and are fundamentally different from the obligations that a business executive has to employees, partners, and investors. Historically, institutions like museums, hospitals, schools, and universities…
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Cash, Paranoia Fuel Tech Giants’ Buying Binge
Nice pice on disruption fear driven tech M&A: From messaging to watches and thermostats, Facebook and Google, along with Amazon.com Inc. and Apple Inc., each want to own the digital platform where people communicate, shop and seek entertainment. The competition is driven by their ability to pay—their combined market capitalization exceeds $1 trillion—and long memories…
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PoS Disruption
Local business owners take as a given that they need an ugly, slow, expensive and complicated point of sale system cluttering their counter. –Square unveils new iPad stand dubbed Square Stand The spread of iOS into retail/PoS is a great disruption story playing out right in front of us. The fact that they’re called PoS’s…
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Disruption
In other words, an upgrade to an over-serving product will be deferred at the slightest excuse while an installation of an under-serving product that attacks an unsolved problem will be rationalized no matter the circumstances asymco
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