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Re:Senior Executives Get More Sleep Than Everyone Else on Thursday March 01, 2018 @01:08AM (#16490034)
"In our assessment of 35,000 leaders and interviews with 250 more, we found that the more senior a person’s role is, the more sleep they get. ... It used to be a badge of honor to brag about sleeping few hours, but our research should serve as inspiration for aspiring leaders to make sleep sacrosanct. The key message: If you want to be an effective leader, and rise in the ranks, get enough sleep."
There's also not a huge benefit to doing the test at all.
Cargo cult data science.
Re:Quinn Norton: The New York Times Fired My Doppelgänger on Wednesday February 28, 2018 @08:28AM (#16482804)
Why is this flagged?
Re:How bands are escaping the music industry snake pit on Tuesday February 27, 2018 @08:27AM (#16473119)
The problem is that if you own your distribution channels you need a massive marketing budget to stand out from the other offerings as you are competing with other distributors instead of getting help from them.
It's your objection so you tell me, if you actually know what you are talking about.
He's a line manager. What do you think he should do differently?
I don't have much more experience as a manager than you do but here are some thoughts. 1. Share the roadmap with your team once confirmed by management 2. Don't force your implementation on the team but let them come up with it and use it as long as it is good enough 3. The time will never come that you feel that your reports are ready for hand over - it will only come by necessity when you are asked to take on more responsibilities so that you have no choice but to hand off this work. So, you may as well start the hand over today as there will never be a better time.
Re:What I Learned Burning $14k on YouTube Ads for Candy Japan on Sunday February 25, 2018 @11:20PM (#16463100)
The long term brand plan must be set by the CEO and in the example provided by the parent, the CEO only cares about keeping investors happy in the short term, alas no spend without immediately identifiable ROI.
Re:When to bring in the heavy hitters (2017) on Sunday February 25, 2018 @11:17PM (#16463087)
Like "don't hire jerks." Don't work for people writing those posts as they are obviously jerks themselves.
Re:When to bring in the heavy hitters (2017) on Sunday February 25, 2018 @11:15PM (#16463080)
Mondragon is run as a normal corporation, mostly. It's just named differently.
Re:What I Learned Burning $14k on YouTube Ads for Candy Japan on Sunday February 25, 2018 @06:52PM (#16461961)
Exactly this.
The universe does not follow an algorithm.
No, it's not.
No.
Re:Netflix is getting huge, but can it get great? on Thursday February 15, 2018 @01:37AM (#16382320)
Absolutely not. None of this is possible or even desirable. We don't want to watch optimized video. We want to watch stories that move us, created by geniuses like Coppola, or whoever you think is good.
Re:Netflix is getting huge, but can it get great? on Thursday February 15, 2018 @01:11AM (#16382253)
Spotify doesn't have a moat. They're not profitable.
Re:Netflix is getting huge, but can it get great? on Thursday February 15, 2018 @01:08AM (#16382251)
There's no personalized targetting in content. It's really one size fits all, or at least the regular S-M-L. It is, obviously, impossible to make different shows for millions of individuals.

What Netflix has is more detailed data of what people watch. So will its competitors is just a few years.

What matters in content is the content of that content. Ideas, emotions, excitement. Technology is irrelevant.

Re:Chipotle Taps Taco Bell CEO to Be Its New Head on Tuesday February 13, 2018 @10:54PM (#16373321)
It's still pure fantasy.
>The job (creative) necessitated that my work which was done for a major corporation not be included in my portfolio which made it very hard to find new employment overnight

Put it in your portfolio

Re:Is developer compensation becoming bimodal? on Friday February 09, 2018 @07:02AM (#16339555)
>Fast nearly free exponential distribution

Just because you make an app and publish it to the App Store doesn't mean that it is "distributed" to anyone at all. There are massive costs to marketing apps because apps are commodities.

Re:The Amazon-Ification of Whole Foods on Friday February 09, 2018 @12:14AM (#16338051)
Amazon can't reduce margins without fundamentally changing the nature of Whole Foods. If they lower margins they will leave their current segment and enter a lower cost segment, with the corresponding changes in service, offerings and overall customer experience. They could do it by subsidizing lower margins in the short but not the long term.
Only reading print outs and dictating emails sounds like a sweet mechanism for managing your time.
Re:Tesla's Musk sells $10M in flamethrowers in four days on Friday February 02, 2018 @06:45AM (#16289847)
Tesla investors should worry about stunts like these. Each time Musk sells nonsense products like these he trades brand equity for money. To be explicit, these flamethrowers diminish the value of Tesla.
Re:Ten days in Shenzhen on Monday January 29, 2018 @11:19PM (#16262851)
But you request the translation per message. It does not happen automatically.
Selfdriving is never happening.
Re:Google doesn’t necessarily need innovation on Friday January 26, 2018 @07:10AM (#16238534)
People who purchase a service from Grab are purchasing from a company. Not from independent businesses. There is no difference whatsoever from buying from Amazon. Delivery people perform tasks just like the people working in Amazon's warehouses or delivering their packages.

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