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The Intention Edition

The state everyone is chasing only arrives when a hundred small decisions about bodies, sound, sightlines, queues and toilets have been considered. Hotels call this invisible service. Clubs learn it faster, because a bad decision shows up faster.

— Colin
3w ago

Why is this free event better run than any airline check-in counter, DMV, or preschool drop-off in the world? No pre-registration is needed. Results are immediately available.

4w ago

Within skilled assembly, wire harnesses are perhaps the trickiest to get right, or at least the trickiest that we need a lot of, the trickiest without which nothing else turns on. So if you've been trained to heatseek bottlenecks at the system level and throw everything you've got at them until they're knocked out and you can move on to the next one, then wire harnessing is the logical place to start. And it turns out you can't automate it, yet.

3mo ago
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Tim Cook's Apple

Industrial engineering is essentially the study of people and machines. [It's about] how the two working together can create things that they couldn't create on their own. I've always viewed the supply chain to be a bit of a piece of art when it was done correctly. Because it's a symphony of…1000s of different components and parts coming together to create something.

6mo ago

There is an argument that without the organizational skills and production strategy Forrest brought to the table, Fender may have not been able to make the jump from a comparatively small builder to the mammoth industry leader it became.

7mo ago

Underscored — save the words that stop you in your tracks.

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