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The Business of Tech
2d ago

Many pilots rely on self selected enthusiasts, vendor methodologies, and rough time saved calculations rather than robust measures of service quality or error rates.

2w ago

With Victor Frankenstein, he had no doubts. The whole movie, he has very little doubt, which was a very freeing thing to play up until the moment of creation. And then after that, it's kind of all doubt. And that's when he kind of goes in within himself and ossifies. But Josh is very different. Josh is mostly doubt and mostly reactionary.

2w ago

What could cause a previously thriving herd of majestic dairy cattle to stop drinking water and start drinking … urine?

3w ago

Boult's core advice is to treat every significant new idea as if it were a venture‑backed startup inside your organisation. That means giving it a dedicated budget, a finite runway, clear deliverables, and hard stage gates where the project must "earn" the right to continue.

3w ago

I think peak subscription refers to subscriptions that don't deliver a lot of value because it's so easy I think to sign up for an app or you know a service and then maybe even forget about it and then six months later you look at say I haven't been using this or I haven't been consuming it.

4w ago
Hidden Brain
The Debt Trap

We like to think that good financial decisions come down to discipline and basic math. But the psychology of money turns out to be deeply complicated.

4w ago

When you're really kind of starving for accurate information uh you know out of out of both sides in terms of what is the condition of the straight of Hormuz uh how is it you know what what is the traffic look like? What is the potential for that to get back online? what is the the knock-on effect going to be for the global economy? all of these, you know, unanswered questions. Um, I think that just makes markets, uh, you know, a little bit more aggressive and volatile when you get any snippet of good news

1mo ago

Lobbyists weren't created in 2025. They've been around for a long time. Um, and I think when you're I think the position, I don't speak for Andrew, but the position we try to take is we'll meet with anybody. If you want to come and discuss your matter, deal on the criminal side, whatever it is, we'll always give you an audience, but that doesn't entitle you to anything and certainly not entitled to outcomes.

1mo ago

At a certain point, we have to hold ourselves accountable as women and say, "It's barely been 50 years that we can even have a credit card, that we can own property, that we can do things in our own name." to be so eager to give up all of that and to go back into this place of voluntary helplessness and voluntary ignorance in service of a very specific kind of love to me is we just can't allow ourselves to do that.

1mo ago

Should you tell a harsh truth if it will only cause pain? Or is it sometimes kinder to keep someone in the dark?

1mo ago

Because of this persistent migration pattern over a long period of time, if someone got too bossy or even just got too much influence, someone else was usually moving down the river and saying, "They're not my chief." So, Ojibwe culture tended to be very tolerant of cultural variation, but very intolerant of being told what to do.

1mo ago

What I think this whole milk craze really boils down to is this philosophical belief that what is natural is best... the push for drinking whole milk is tied to this much broader view that the Trump administration espouses, which is that America can be great again if we can go back to this imagined historical era where the cows were roaming in the pastures.

1mo ago

I realized I was walking around sort of alone. It was either like I need to go deep in the pain and get drunk and get a lot more social or I need to go home. And I just had sensory I was just overstimulated and decided to pull the rip cord and actually went home fairly early.

1mo ago

You're not even choosing what you actually like. There's always disturbed me, quite frankly, that you're not even choosing what you actually like.

1mo ago

It's basically impossible to sum up Yahoo's story over the last 25 years, but the short version is that once upon a time, Yahoo paid Google to run the search box on its website, and everything immediately went sideways.

1mo ago

Having a lot of data about your health can, first of all, make you kind of obsess over that data. A lot of these companies give you numbers like you'll get a sleep score or you'll get like a readiness score or a strain score and it's like a game.

1mo ago

So what if you could build a living, breathing, physics based model of the entire grid, every pole line and transformer and watch how it actually behaves in a storm or when you plug in a wind farm or aluminum smelter sized data center.

2mo ago

We need group centered leadership. We need people centered leadership. And I think that's a much harder effort to thwart than it is when you just have one individual who has to represent all interests of all people.

2mo ago

I think people are probably just beginning to realize that this is not going to be a two-day affair. It should be a two-day affair because if if Iran was run by a normal government that had the interests of its own people at heart, they'd have surrendered 24 hours ago or 48 hours ago because there's there's no way that they can win.

2mo ago

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