JCM9

30 ms·

451.
by JCM9 4y ago
So basically Amazon is trimming some bloated teams and re-assessing business units with poor financial performance. I know some people like to paint Amazon in a bad light but given where the economy is heading it would be concerning if a co
452.
by JCM9 4y ago
The environmental review process is also horribly broken in the US. In practice it does relatively little to protect the environment and adds enormous cost and complexity to projects. Important needed infrastructure is held up for years, so
453.
by JCM9 4y ago
This is the problem with the business model of these gig-economy or P2P marketplace concepts with “independent contractors” providing service. They get initial traction with a high focus on consistency and quality, but the model doesn’t sca
454.
by JCM9 4y ago
I remember this from my time in banking. For those not familiar, essentially you need to disappear for two weeks a year without access to anything. This is basically a safeguard to make sure that operations are robust and won’t just fall ov
455.
by JCM9 4y ago
Years ago our company was running an ad campaign on social media. Curious on the results I spent time looking into a randomly selected pool of the “users” that had been clicking on our ads. It quickly became clear that at least half (if not
456.
by JCM9 4y ago
Not surprising. US airlines are pretty terrible. The aircraft are underwhelming and the staff are often rude. It’s like their attitude is you should feel happy they’ve let you fly on their plane today… barking orders at people and treating
457.
by JCM9 4y ago
It’s a cool plane but very much does not “fly almost as fast” as traditional jets. It’s super slow and sluggish in that regard and causes headaches for ATC because it can’t fly as fast or climb as fast as other jets. Think everyone cruising
458.
by JCM9 4y ago
Cirrus had a bad safety record when the aircraft first came out (this was the SR series). In essence it was a similar story to the “doctor killer” mantra that plagued Bonanzas early on… essentially pilots with more money that flying skill.
459.
by JCM9 4y ago
Strong FOMO settling in. Premium transatlantic routes routes like NYC-LHR are super important to the bottom line of the big legacy carriers. If one airline has supersonic and others don’t that could be a huge blow to the others. Of course t
460.
by JCM9 4y ago
I hear you but how is this any different than any alternative approaches? I mean yes you could throw a server under your desk and it would be cheaper. Should you run a server in prod with sensitive workloads without all these extra security
461.
by JCM9 4y ago
Gladwell’s stuff can make for entertaining reading but he’s fundamentally at some level a writer looking for views and not a scientist looking to drill down on the details to fully understand something. A lot of what he writes sounds great
462.
by JCM9 4y ago
I knew this whole space was a race to the bottom business wise the first time I had a driver rock up with multiple phones on the dash and he described how all the drivers in the area arbitrage the different companies against each other. I j
463.
by JCM9 4y ago
Uber has also just gotten really bad from a product standpoint in so many cities too. Canceled rides, terrible customer service. It seems like other app platforms are attracting more/better drivers. Plain old taxis are better than Uber
464.
by JCM9 4y ago
Google’s challenge is that their core business is one where the future looks bleak, and just about everywhere else they try to compete they lose money. Lots of random efforts that seem to go nowhere. Even in widely adopted businesses like c
465.
by JCM9 4y ago
Why is it bad that Amazon seeks to cycle out the lowest performers? Is that not what any high performing organization does? I’m not aware of any very high performing organization that doesn’t have some form of cycling out low performers. An
466.
by JCM9 4y ago
Company identifies its best performers and then pays them more than others. Why is this controversial? Is this the “everyone gets a trophy” generation shocked by how the world really works?
467.
by JCM9 4y ago
McKinsey used to be very respected but over the last 10 years or so has gone from scandal to scandal. McKinsey used to be the the place top graduates wanted to go, but today the best no longer seem interested in going there. What caused thi
468.
by JCM9 4y ago
1) Tesla needs to reduce costs. Getting people to voluntarily quit is a lot easier, cheaper, and less messy than layoffs or firing people. 2) We’re all talking about this topic here, which is exactly what Elon wanted. So he was quite succes
469.
by JCM9 4y ago
The market has cycles where is goes from loving startups that burn cash with the aim of “growing big” and then figuring out the business to absolutely despising these models and flushing them out of the system. We’re at that pivot point now
470.
by JCM9 4y ago
That was a factor, but more fundamentally it was companies with wild valuations and no realistic prospects of becoming a profitable and self-sustaining business. There is some of that out there right now. Market corrections exist in part to
471.
by JCM9 4y ago
There’s a whole generation of tech employees that have never seen a down market. All indications are that these folks are woefully unaware of what’s on the horizon now. It’s going to be all about cash flow. If you’re burning cash and not ma
472.
by JCM9 4y ago
He was portraying a stereotype that wasn’t founded in facts or reality. Yes there are some high flying companies founded by very young people bucking established trends, but by and large successful startups and companies are founded by tho
473.
by JCM9 4y ago
Not a bad list but also nothing different than what the cloud companies tell their customers directly to do. The underlying “problem” here is usually when people/companies act as if the cloud just relieves them of all responsibility to
474.
by JCM9 4y ago
Mark Zuckerberg used to rail on those older them him that they were duds that are out of touch. Quite ironically Mark is now the one turning into a dud that’s out of touch. The only reason to log into Facebook these days is to see what my g
475.
by JCM9 4y ago
McKinsey used to be a much smaller firm that was once considered quite prestigious. Now it seems they’re just going from one ethics scandal to the next, caught lining their pockets in dealings that don’t look remotely good to anyone on the
476.
Congress Has to Ask How Much McKinsey Hurt the FDA(nytimes.com)
4 points by JCM9 4y ago|1 comments
477.
by JCM9 4y ago
Depends on the buyer and nuanced details of how the awards actually work at Twitter. For existing shares vested those will most likely just be paid out in cash into a brokerage account for any shares still held. If the acquisition is a trad
478.
by JCM9 4y ago
Headline is rather hyperbolic. The challenge in replacing jet fuel is that on energy density (by volume and weight) jet fuel is extremely high compared to just about anything else. Also, shedding weight in flight is key to long range travel
479.
by JCM9 5y ago
There are very concerning patterns developing at the moment in the DEI space. DEI efforts, and often those leading them, are increasingly the most biased and close minded parts of the organization. Spreading selected stereotypes and often s
480.
by JCM9 5y ago
Expecting a lot of armchair NTSB investigators to rock up here, but honestly not much indication on what happened until the appropriate authorities can pull the data recorders out of the aircraft and see what was going on. Looking forward t

More ›