deepandmeaning
Joined 16 years ago
Joined 16 years ago
I have and will always be an advocate of human connections. My experience of working across a number of agencies and startups has been the best focus on that (though it can be hard to sustain).
I would love to work with people and at places that understand and realise the value of this.
I watched a video of Emad Mostaque (Stability AI CEO) recently; he alluded to discussions with Apple, but who knows to what degree. The general thrust being we need to have greater control over our data and that's one of the things Stability is working towards, which chimes with Apples overall approach.
I thought it would be nice to share them with others and offer a weekly quotes by email service too (sadly neglected for a while).
- Would this drive up the cost of these vehicles?
- Is there likely to be a fundamental change in the way that these components are sourced, a move away from just in time?
- Is this mirrored in other industries?
Timeless themes written in beautiful prose:
It's out of copyright (first published in 1923, so almost 100 years), someone has put a website together of each theme, here is one on work:
http://www.katsandogz.com/onwork.html
I've probably moved on from this book a little now - but it's still beautiful and sometimes gives much needed perspective.
The standout's for me were:
* Plan - have a plan in place in advance * Flow - recognise and shift bottlenecks + understand the impact to the system * Prioritise - rank what is critical, urgent, or standard - and be ruthless * Process - simplify the processes to make it more effective and efficient * Shift - innovate and adapt in the face of changing circumstances.
These sound like no brainers, but reading the story you get a sense of how one individual pushing these forward in a tough situation had an incredibly powerful impact.
How could we apply these powerful lessons more widely?