Bruce Schneier
If you ask Alexa, Amazon’s voice assistant AI system, whether Amazon is a monopoly, it responds by saying it doesn’t know. It doesn’t take much to make it lambaste the other tech giants, but it’s silent about its own corporate parent’s misdeeds. Continue reading
Understand the culture of the new company (with which you are joining or negotiating) and its standards of what is reasonable.
James Nunan – Business person
What’s the best metaphor for defining the project structure and process for getting lean and agile work done? It may be an orchestra. Continue reading
Twelve days after a portion of Interstate 95 collapsed in north Philadelphia during a truck fire, officials opened a temporary six-lane roadway to serve motorists while a permanent overpass is rebuilt. This was a major success after the June 11, 2023, disaster was predicted to snarl traffic for months. Continue reading
Thousands of incidents involving toxic substances harm and kill workers — and the public — every year. According to the U.S. Department of Labor, exposure to harmful substances and fires/explosions are the fifth and sixth leading causes of workplace fatalities, respectively.[1] Continue reading
We make decisions all the time. Often our decision making is with little more than a gut feeling.
When faced with a major decision we often look data to help us decide. Is the product reliable enough as designed? Which field returns indicate we should stop production?
Some decision may help us earn or lose thousands if not millions of dollars. Continue reading