Tag: history
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Remember to sell customers what they ask for
Sun had become bored with the mechanics of running a business… Except, it didn’t. The customer could not get Sun to pick up the phone. (And when Sun did pick up the phone, they tried to sell them the wrong product.) This was in sharp contrast to their experience with Dell. 🔗 What Sun got…
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Luke Kanies on Puppet history
I was a founder, fired by my board, for far less egregious sins than Matt (I dared to let growth sink to 70% annually – and I was dumb enough to hire a COO with no loyalty). 🔗 Luke Kanies on Puppet history
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why big companies build their own software, and hire consultants to do it
But selling anything to big enterprises is hard. You are asked to meet with a dozen people in the organization, spending hours and hours trying to explain and persuade. Half the people you meet with are skeptics who are going to argue that your service won’t work. The other half are going to argue internally…
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A Successful AI Application
But selling anything to big enterprises is hard. You are asked to meet with a dozen people in the organization, spending hours and hours trying to explain and persuade. Half the people you meet with are skeptics who are going to argue that your service won’t work. The other half are going to argue internally…
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The backstory of named colors
One color a day, told as it ought to be told: with its provenance, its chemistry, and the people who paid for it in poison. 🔗 Storied Colors Related, I collect color palettes I like over on cote.pizza.
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Shitting in the field, but plated in the dining room
[The Normans] gave English its double vision, which is the source of both the beauty and the mess. After 1066 you’ve got the Saxon peasantry keeping the Germanic words for the muddy daily grind and the Norman lords laying French over the top for everything refined, so English ends up with two words for everything…
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From ChatGPT based on “Pyramid of Capitalist System,” Nedeljkovich, Brashich, & Kuharich, Industrial Workers of the World, 1911. Of course, for America at least, what you’d like to visualize is that every layer actually plays a part on “shareholder,” just a small part. Maybe there’s some stock certificates and cash that trickle down in pneumatic…
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Your Power Tools Got Worse On Purpose – Who Really Owns DeWalt, Craftsman, and Milwaukee?
Private equity and execs who are not subject matter experts is a bad idea, in tools at least. 🔗 Your Power Tools Got Worse On Purpose – Who Really Owns DeWalt, Craftsman, and Milwaukee?
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History is not a story
But how much was really done to unravel the Soviet Union by Solzhenitsyn’s three-volume narrative history of the Soviet Gulag between its publication and the end of Communism in the Soviet Union? Could the works of one author really dissolve a nation? Some might cite the election of the Polish Pope John Paul II in…
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My grandfather was mildly obsessed with organizing and documenting the history of his life: a memoir about a career in the military from 1938 to ~1975, growing up in a Depression era Oklahoma “dirt farm.” There was also geology. I think all old people have that project. Us soon to be old Gen-X’ers have more…
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the reason the 2000 bug didn’t destroy a significant amount of our infrastructure is because we caught it and spent thousands of hours fixing it BEFORE the year 2000 🔗 I wish we had spent the last 26 years…
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Related to your interests, Wednesday
More than 20% of videos shown to new YouTube users are ‘AI slop’, study finds – “Together, these AI slop channels have amassed more than 63bn views and 221 million subscribers, generating about $117m (£90m) in revenue each year, according to estimates.” // Assuming The Algorithm” is working (showing people things they will watch and…
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Woke fonts. I wasn’t sure what size they used for Courier New.1 How I long for the all business, utilitarian thrill of Courier New… It was a simpler time. From the original memo, it looks like 12 point? ↩
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