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The problem is market maturity. If Uber is currently facing a quickly maturing market, the upside is limited. Investing in growth is much different than investing in diversification. For example, Google's ad-click market is completely mature, there is very little new growth there. So all their investments are in something new to add to their revenue pipeline, whether that will be AR or autonomous technologies. The fact that Uber is already seeing a loss of market share indicates that market maturity is fast approaching. How much of their investment is simply protectionism to maintain market share rather than growth?

I'd rather see the connection between happiness and self-sufficiency, because ultimately, isn't happiness what we all want? Whether through intelligence, social connections or religion, achieving that elusive sense of peace and happiness is what drives people's ambitions.

Tim Cook has always been an efficiency expert. He is the master of supply chain management and logistics. He is perfect for operations and everything related to cost management. However, do his skills translate to the visionary tasks expected of the CEO? I understand he's delegated these tasks to others, but ultimately, these delegates have failed. Either Cook needs to find better visionaries, or step down, because Apple is completely rudderless as a purveyor of EXCITING consumer products. It's becoming more like LG, Samsung and Lenovo - a boring derivative consumer electronics product company.

1. Guitar player in a band, either rhythm or lead 2. Study and compose (not lyricist!)

I can spend all day playing my guitar and jamming with other passionate musicians from all walks of life. I would love to take the time to explore jazz, blues and classic rock. I have guitars and I just don't seem to make enough time for them.

Unfortunately, I don't believe I'll make any real money in this space, so my assumption is that food and board is paid for by a patron so I can play music publicly in return.

The response to this trend has always been the continued niche usage of Linux OS outside of server environments. Based on the quality of software applications, Professionals really have only two alternatives: Windows and Mac. I've always went with Windows because I don't engage as heavily in the creative process (music, video, design, etc.) that would benefit from a Mac. At worst for Apple, Professionals return to Windows laptops (Dell, HP, Lenovo, Microsoft, etc.) - that's a loss of 5%, maybe?

The issues of worker dissatisfaction in the U.S. is very similar to the ones in China, which was ironically built on economic equality.China, like Sweden and Norway, is ethnically homogeneous, but unlike Scandinavia its population is quite large. The larger the population, the more difficult it is to administer equal access to economic prosperity. China's revenues are technically built on capitalist models to maximize productivity, and it uses socialist ideals to do what it can with wealth redistribution, and yet is failing miserably. Socialism falls apart when the population far exceeds its ability to manage monetary policy. The U.S. is in a similar quandary without the socialist infrastructure; if China cannot do it, what are the chances the U.S. can?

The U.S. must innovate a different approach built to scale and support a population of 1 billion people. It's like management 101: managing a workforce of 20 to prosperity is much different than managing a workforce of 10,000.

It really does depend on the organizational structure of the company, and whether they appreciate how difficult it is to replace programmers with an equally competent one. Most non-tech managers don't understand the intangible costs of replacing programmers, but that's never stopped them treating programmers like interchangeable cogs. If you work for a Fortune 500 non-technical company, I don't believe this strategy works to well.

LOL I have that issue

Because American companies can trust the NSA

No LTE means no enterprise clients like me.

I look at pitch competitions as practice for public speaking so when I do have a one on one, I'm rock solid with my 30 and 90 second pitches.

"Fool me once shame on you, fool me twice shame on me" People honestly believe the government can be fully transparent ? The way they set up the FISA court is a clear indicator of its intentions from the get go.

I think it's a product with HUGE potential as it would replace my separate Gaming-Console/AppleTV/Browser devices; also looking forward to gesture interactivity done right (ugh, Samsung's Smart TVs are terrible)..

I don't disagree with your initial frustration, but be balanced and understand that your article applies just as equally to the delusional "technical" entrepreneur who: 1. expects his technical hires to also work for equity at first (because even the technical co-founder is working for free, right?) 2. wants to change the world with his twist on the next great video sharing app that uses the latest and greatest framework he came up with in his garage and expects all his hires to use it 3. wants to get rich in the process.

Ultimately, there is no distinction among delusional "entrepreneurs" regardless if they are technical or not. As a matter of fact, I'll posit the technical co-founders are far worst because they expect all technical hires to work as hard as them without pay. At least with the non-technical co-founder, programmers have a little leverage.