- Self paced learning and choosing how to spend your time
- Need to collaborate with your peers on scarce resources (everyone can't read the same book / solve the same challenge at the same time)
- Small classes, no one could get away with anything/bullying
- Responsibility for completing the weekly plan yourself and being rewarded for hard work ("the diligence light is well lit" sticker you got when sharing your weekly progress - sry poorly translated Swedish"
Three years ago I booked a flight to San Juan (SJU), Puerto Rico by mistake. I was supposed to go to San Jose (SJO) in Costa Rica.
I will never forget the moment I read "SJO" in the email realizing I should have booked a flight to "SJU". Then going into Google, and typing SJO to find out where I was actually flying. I was prepared for it to be in Asia, Africa or anywhere. Luckily, Puerto Rico was just a small detour to Costa Rica (flew from Europe) :-)
Ha!
I've got a friend who, on his very early 20s, wanted to stay for a while in Ireland to learn English while working (Madrid, Spain, here). He had a big farewell party, drank a bit too much, and missed his flight early in the morning, only to find that he had booked a flight to BERLIN instead of DUBLIN.
He was so lucky to miss it, imagine that hangover-y arrival to Berlin imagining it's Ireland.
I'd imagine it has something to do with the phenomenon wehre you can raed the wrdos in a sntecnee eevn if tehy are jmlbued up. Plus being drunk would magnify the chance to mistake BERLIN for DUBLIN. The last halves of the words arethe same, and so do B and D as well as B and R if you squint.
shrugs In Spanish the accent for both Berlin and Dublin is in the last silabe, so it sounds a bit more similar than in English. This plus being naive, young and careless, I suppose... :D
I once called a travel agent to book a flight to San Jose (California). She mis-heard me as wanting to go to Santa Fe (New Mexico). She called me a few days later in a panic, saying "Sorry, I accidentally booked you a flight to San Jose. I'll cancel it and re-book it". Two wrongs do make a right.
I know a family that did that. We're not really in touch any more but he was a tech worker in London in the mid 00s and she was in corporate purchasing or something.
A few years ago they upped and moved to Wales and operate a cattle farm, they also home-school their kids. Mostly now I see their ads for pasture-fed beef on facebook. They seem happy.
People romanticize all sorts of things, welding, nursing...
My grandfather was a farmer and died after an accident cleaning something with gasoline. Sounds dumb (I don't know the details) but farmers tend to have accidents like that because the whole job is working with dangerous machinery, chemicals, and animals, and a "family farmer" has an incentive to take risks someone working for a corporation doesn't.
I remember a news story about a farmer who passed out from breathing something toxic, so his oldest son goes to get him, he passes out too, his wife goes...the whole family died like that one after the other.
Well, most of them love the flying part itself. Problem is everything else. With software development it's just the opposite. The perks are great, but the actual work can be very boring...
Audi is also pretty good at making more relevant information and controls available in the dial display area, controlled with a scroll on the steering wheel.
Big, incumbent non-SW company (Kodak example) being challenged by start-up
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Big, software incumbent (Salesforce) with massive developer resources being challenged by start-up.
Maybe the strategies need to change - perhaps increasingly partnering with the software incumbents (if you can't beat 'em, join 'em).. Maybe someone can add some insight..?
One lesson I learned since I started my business a couple of months ago, is how important interfaces are. In practical terms, you can provide any kind of service together with partners as long as the interfaces between these partners are working. Doesn't matter if it is an API or just the way collaborate with, e.g., a photographer.
This gives cloud based software companies are huge advantage, and opens all kinds of opportunities for companies developing or working with the interfaces between these cloud solutions and involved parties.
My impression is that all the platform start-ups, unless they have competencies in integration of different tools and managing the corresponding processes, are basically dead in the water once VC money is drying up. When we talk about B2B solutions, I don't see any FB-like monopoly. So if start-ups are pushing for that, they gona loose against the big incumbents on the software side and against more operations oriented companies on the integration and process side.
This is a good start, "Money as debt". Saw it in university and since then you will never take financial markets seriously. And all the "stimulus" we see is just pushing the can forward. You will start to see through a lot of lies.
Absolutely, unfortunately taylorism did follow suit into the world of knowledge workers.
In some hostile work environments like banking this is everywhere. Don't leave before your manager, eat lunch at your desk, look busy and stay in the office as long as you can
