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The first Daily PPILL was published more than 18 months ago. It has been an incredible ride creating the habit of creating daily, and counting with your patronage. I seldom hear from any of you, but every once in a while someone reminds me that there are readers out there and I am infinitely grateful for them. THANK YOU. This summer, I will need...
If we don’t have the will, we’ll never get things done. We may never even get started. Hannibal (not the fictional serial killer of “Silence of the Lambs”, but the Carthaginian general), has been recognized as one of the greatest military strategists of all times. Among other things, he famously invaded Italy (and the Roman Republic) during the...
Consulting is an interesting role. We go about our lives being somewhat experts at what we do, and we think that we have all the answers. That's why most of us think that doing the same thing as a consultant will be a piece of cake. Having been on both sides of the table, I am here to tell you that it is, actually, a very different skillset. Most...
In hindsight, successful startups always have great teams, however, the recruitment process rarely has to do with résumés. Sure, skills are important, but more important is to share a strong vision. A vision that prospective team members can get inspired by and join our journey. This is the underlying idea of something called "the crazy quilt",...
Hungarians, are the descendants from the Huns. "Barbarians", they called them. So what could be more fitting than this thing showing up in one of the drawers in my Hungarian cousin's kitchen? A hatchet, just like AI, can be either a tool in the right hands, or a weapon in the wrong ones.
The topic that is occupying my mind lately, is the nature of exponentials and how they play into business. I am working on some long form content, which makes it hard to publish my regular Daily PPILL while I also take care of business. But I thought, why not dig up some of my favorite posts? Here is another one: Making the right decision is...
The topic that is occupying my mind lately, is the nature of exponentials and how they play into business. I am working on some long form content, which makes it hard to publish my regular Daily PPILL while I also take care of business. But I thought, why not dig up some of my favorite posts? Here is another one: There is an awesome quote by no...
The topic that is occupying my mind lately, is the nature of exponentials and how they play into business. I am working on some long form content, which makes it hard to publish my regular Daily PPILL while I also take care of business. But I thought, why not dig up some of my favorite posts? Here is one: The concept of "backward compatibility"...
The topic that is occupying my mind lately, is the nature of exponentials and how they play into business. I am working on some long form content, which makes it hard to publish my regular Daily PPILL while I also take care of business. But I thought, why not dig up some of my favorite posts? Here is another one: I. Cannot. Stop. Talking. About....
The topic that is occupying my mind lately, is the nature of exponentials and how they play into business. I am working on some long form content, which makes it hard to publish my regular Daily PPILL while I also take care of business. But I thought, why not dig up some of my favorite posts? Here is one: There are many wonderful purpose-driven...
As long as there has been organized work, there has been supervisors. The often hated individuals who often make sure that the work is done under spec, and on-time. The ones that are "responsible" for production, for hitting the quota, for making the numbers. Each worker may have their own idea of what to do, how to do it, and when to do it, but...
In a world where technology is constantly advancing, simple yet ingenious inventions can capture our attention. The humble flywheel, often overlooked, these rotating wonders possess an appeal that inspires me, especially now that I am more and more involved with the creation of Exponential Organizations and the exponential technologies that are...
I bet you heard that before. I would even bet that you have uttered it sometime. It speaks to human nature to our energy and interest to figure out things, even if we are not perfect memory machines that can recall any piece of information at will. But how about if I told you that AI seems to behave this way more and more. Here is an anecdote: A...
Finding one's purpose is easy for some. They know already who they want to be, and what they want to do. It hasn't always been so easy for me. I am a fast learner, because of that, I tend to do reasonably well in many things, and since I like variety, change is always exciting to me. Because of this, coming up with a list of things that I would...
Doing a good job gets you the next one, and just like that, the purpose of every meeting should be at least to get the next one. The therapist always books the next session right away and we always talk about the next one at the end of a date. Every meeting with a customer is an opportunity to discover something where they can use more help....
If you have anything to do with technology, you are most likely familiar with the "hypecycle" and how technologies, when being introduced at first are not taken into account, but as they start to get traction, and people get excited, they are usually overhyped. Most of the time this creates a gap between people's expectations and what the...
Most stuff we use wear out as we do. Every single time we do our thing, we leave a little bit of it in what we made. The soles of our shoes wear thinner, the edge of our knife gets dull. But some things get better every time we use them. I rode with an Uber driver the other day who had 16,000 trips. You can be dang sure that this gentleman has...
I'll start today with an anecdote. When I went to college for my undergraduate in Electronics Engineering, few of us had cars, especially because in the town I went to school, most people were admitted to college before they hit the legal age for driving. Buses were a pain in the you-know-what, and they ran few and far in-between. Many of us...
No wonder why younger generations prefer to text or just use an app. We still have to call-in every once in a while, and when we do, we get the "...your call is important to us...please stay on the line..." on loop. Even we hear this, we know is not true. How do we know? Been waiting too long The deck is stacked against us: If no one answers, our...
To me it is pretty clear, but there are still sources that try to make it look like the environmental impact of an electric vehicle is higher than one equipped with an internal combustion engine. Here are a couple of graphics that show the data, you may argue that the data is skewed, but you can be the judge. First, there is the consumption, a...
Just to make sure we know what we are talking about, I am referring to a "model" that attempts to mimic somehow the behavior of a system, market, customer, etc. No smoking hot individuals here. Every model is fundamentally wrong. It is a feature of every model. Models start with something as simple as a "rule of thumb" and, through time, they can...
What's the purpose of platforms? With so much talk these days around the responsibility of Social Media companies in what their members say or do not say, it is worth looking at what is meant with platforms and what's their reason for existing. I used to play the drums, quite a lot. And drummers know a few things about platforms. They give us the...
Are we still in the celebrity CEO era? I think we are. I believe I heard someone calling its end, but the market never got the message. We continue to laud -sometimes even worship- the energetic visionary, and even despotic fearless leader in front of some of the companies that are the protagonists of our changing world. In our mind, they may be...
The simplest way to understand encryption, is to think of a decoder wheel. One character becomes another, so the output on the other side of the function becomes garbled and cannot be read, unless we have our own wheel. Modern encryption though, is some more complex than that, because simple decoder wheels can be broken fairly easily, and you...
What matters? Is it the actual number? Or is it compared to something? As many times, the answer is, "depends". When we are trying to determine if we reached a goal, if we "made it", we have to go with the absolute number. "Black or white", "night or day"; it has to be clear as that. If we have succeeded on our quarterly goals, we either made the...
