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Because that SV guy has a whole PR aparatus at his disposal aimed at creating public pressure for action. In our attention economy this gives you superpowers.

by mola 5y ago

fuzzfactor 5y ago
Every now and then someone given superpowers would be the ideal solution in an emergency rescue situation. From what I've seen Petersen has taken a vast reserve of capitalist wealth and leveraged it by investing into his people to progress toward his objective of a more streamlined freight experience. He seems to be participating seriously in a continuous improvement of his own expertise on this focused objective like no one else with those kind of resources at any recent time. His proposed temporary container yards have got to be very urgent. The inherent real estate problem has always loomed large. The "Just-In-Time" supply chain approach has factored out all but the minimal inventory buffers as it proliferated over the decades. Now JIT can not be executed and there is little alternative remaining. The storage & warehousing acreage & square footage were agressively downscaled over the long term and the increasing dependence on a fully enabled pipeline moving at maximum flow has been an ever-growing consequence. Expediting cargo is a task that can not be fully accomplished within a single lifetime, so you really need to start early and never quit if you want to make worthwhile progress. I think Petersen's gotten better every year and has unique abilities to offer in this crisis. He would probably make a good supply chain tsar about now. And he's making himself available, people should jump on it and give him a try. Each day of delay is another day longer before a stagnant economy can begin to recover. Coming from a marine cargo entrepreneur after 40 years of much-needed continuous improvement indeed.

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Because that SV guy has a whole PR aparatus at his disposal aimed at creating public pressure for action. In our attention economy this gives you superpowers.

by mola 5y ago

Because that SV guy has a whole PR aparatus at his disposal aimed at creating public pressure for action. In our attention economy this gives you superpowers.

fuzzfactor 5y ago
Every now and then someone given superpowers would be the ideal solution in an emergency rescue situation. From what I've seen Petersen has taken a vast reserve of capitalist wealth and leveraged it by investing into his people to progress toward his objective of a more streamlined freight experience. He seems to be participating seriously in a continuous improvement of his own expertise on this focused objective like no one else with those kind of resources at any recent time. His proposed temporary container yards have got to be very urgent. The inherent real estate problem has always loomed large. The "Just-In-Time" supply chain approach has factored out all but the minimal inventory buffers as it proliferated over the decades. Now JIT can not be executed and there is little alternative remaining. The storage & warehousing acreage & square footage were agressively downscaled over the long term and the increasing dependence on a fully enabled pipeline moving at maximum flow has been an ever-growing consequence. Expediting cargo is a task that can not be fully accomplished within a single lifetime, so you really need to start early and never quit if you want to make worthwhile progress. I think Petersen's gotten better every year and has unique abilities to offer in this crisis. He would probably make a good supply chain tsar about now. And he's making himself available, people should jump on it and give him a try. Each day of delay is another day longer before a stagnant economy can begin to recover. Coming from a marine cargo entrepreneur after 40 years of much-needed continuous improvement indeed.