Tag: food
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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…
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Tips for Michaels
When Kim and I started living together, we had to figure out the shared rules of the house. Back in 2004, Kim provided a handy list for me: General Don’t stomp or “walk heavy.” When you answer the phone don’t belt out a loud “HELLO!” directly into the caller’s ear. Every item in the house…
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🗂 What’s next for 2019? Influencer marketing trends
> Technology is not favoured on Instagram, accounting for just one percent of posts. A quarter of all sponsored posts cover fashion, followed by food (12 percent) and entertainment (11 percent). www.zdnet.com/article/w…
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🗂 A lot of effort went into making this effortless
> When Pablo Picasso was an old man, he was sitting in a café in Spain, doodling on a used napkin. He was nonchalant about the whole thing, drawing whatever amused him in that moment—kind of the same way teenage boys draw penises on bathroom stalls—except this was Picasso, so his bathroom-stall penises were more…
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🗂 Why Ketchup in Mexico Tastes So Good
> Take a look at the fare available in the typical convenience store. It should be called the corn store. www.aier.org/article/w…
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Link: Steel cut oats
The calories are basically the same as those in instant. The biggest difference is that when you choose instant over the whole grain form, you’re likely to be hungry again in the next 45 minutes, whereas the lesser processed grain will take your body longer to digest, and do a much better job at holding…
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Link: Potato Chips Market Share, Size, Growth and Analysis 2018-2023
“In the past 7 years, the market for good ol’ fried tater chips has grown at a snackable rate of 4%, pushing the global market for potato chips to.” Original source: Potato Chips Market Share, Size, Growth and Analysis 2018-2023
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Link: Ferry risky
“Ms Murphy’s own firm is a perfect example. It operates four refrigerated trucks that bring Irish meat to Italy and return with fresh herbs. “From the time the herbs come out of the ground to the supermarket shelf in Ireland it takes about five days, and you are then left with a shelf-life of three…
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Link: Here are five hidden trends in corporate America’s travel and expenses as online services take over
Spending in the $1.4 trillion business travel market, of the non-travel type: “Starbucks is clearly not just for coffee, according to corporate expense receipts. On average, employees spent $13.21 per visit to Starbucks in 2017, up nearly 40 percent since 2013. That means people are buying more than just coffee, which costs about $4, depending…
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Link: My advice for a Paris visit
“If you want to spend forty euros for a very good but not revelatory lunch, find a “cool” area with lots of restaurants and poke your head in at their opening, at 12:30, to ask for a table. By 12:45 it is too late and you are screwed and back to your favorite cheese shop.…
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Starbucks CEO explains how company ties together a physical store experience with digital innovation
Some momentum updates. Source: Starbucks CEO explains how company ties together a physical store experience with digital innovation
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Why Pivotal Serves Free Breakfast to All Employees
Free food, during a limited, half-hour window, both saves people some hassle and gets them to show up at the same time to kick off the workday. To understand why this is so important, picture Pivotal without free breakfast. Let’s start with the obvious. Most developers would sleep late if it were up to them. They’d roll…
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Cloud-Native Cookbook – beyond “survival is not mandatory”
I started a new booklet project, the Cloud Native Cookbook. The premise is this: The premise of this book is to collect specific, tactical advice transitioning to a cloud-native organization. The reader is someone who “gets it” when it comes to agile, DevOps, cloud native, and All the Great Things. Their struggle is actually putting…
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Making mainframe applications more agile, Gartner – Highlights
In a report giving advice to mainframe folks looking to be more Agile, Gartner’s Dale Vecchio and Bill Swanton give some pretty good advice for anyone looking to change how they do software. Here’s some highlights from the report, entitled “Agile Development and Mainframe Legacy Systems – Something’s Got to Give” Chunking up changes: Application…
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Our Guide to Central Texas Barbecue – Texas Monthly
Our Guide to Central Texas Barbecue – Texas Monthly
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