* broad-based layoffs are a huge drag on company culture...people live in fear for -years- afterward. getting them done quickly is less painful for execs (and for getting the news out all in one batch) but more surgical project trimming/canceling is really more humane and sensical. it's harder.
* Prevention v. Treatment: omg yes...imagine if our governments -really- invested in the future (as one example). which countries will win the future: the ones with a couple extra aircraft carriers, or the ones with the healthier and better educated populaces, pushing the scientific/technological/medical envelope? Our priorities are so upside down. :(
* darnit, you're like the 6th person to recommend "Hustle"...I'll have to give in. :)
So many things to comment on here...I'm just gonna dump 'em all :)
* on Amazon Go: that's the iPhone, but there are Androids of touchless stores coming, see, for instance: https://www.ust.com/en/who-we-are/ust-newsroom/nourish-bloom-market-partners-with-ust-to-launch-the-first-hybrid-autonomous-grocery-store-with-robotic-delivery
* broad-based layoffs are a huge drag on company culture...people live in fear for -years- afterward. getting them done quickly is less painful for execs (and for getting the news out all in one batch) but more surgical project trimming/canceling is really more humane and sensical. it's harder.
* another recent cool agriculture example...not just the big mega-farms: https://www.federatedwireless.com/news/blue-white-robotics-and-federated-wireless-collaborate-with-intel-to-chart-a-new-path-to-autonomous-agriculture-with-flexible-robotics-and-private-wireless/
* Prevention v. Treatment: omg yes...imagine if our governments -really- invested in the future (as one example). which countries will win the future: the ones with a couple extra aircraft carriers, or the ones with the healthier and better educated populaces, pushing the scientific/technological/medical envelope? Our priorities are so upside down. :(
* darnit, you're like the 6th person to recommend "Hustle"...I'll have to give in. :)
Have a nice weekend!
Reed says on his book that layoffs at Netflix at the beginning of the decade were good to morale after a while.