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..The Government of India signed an agreement with the Rockefeller Foundation to carry out research to achieve higher food production. The program started with research for the development of suitable hybrids of maize followed by hybrids of sorghum and pearl millet.

The dwarf wheat bred by Dr. Borlaug in Mexico, named Sonaro 4 and Larmarojo, were introduced. These efforts created an agricultural revolution.

I consider myself a farmer and used to grow wheat on 80 acres. I was very happy to harvest about 500 quintals every year – about six quintals (600 kg) for every acre. The planting of Sonaro 64, with the agronomic practices recommended, led to a harvest of 20 quintals (2000 kg) an acre, which was more than three times the previous yield.

I remember three to four years after the introduction of those seeds, India’s wheat production expanded significantly, and quite rapidly India became self-sufficient in food.

https://www.worldfoodprize.org/index.cfm/88533/18096/when_th...

However,

- No indication of who are people behind it? No website, No Linkedin, not even an email!

- What is their credential? What would make them successful than others?

- What is their unique take on this very very old problem?

[Edit].. And then these kind of hyperbole are red flags (hustler mindset and not 'thoughtful' one)..

- enabling cases to be resolved within 48 hours from the comfort of one's home.

- ensure that justice is served swiftly and fairly for every individual

Human bone is five times stiffer than concrete and fifty times harder to break

EU’s unwinnable price war with Chinese EVs summed up: BYD cars are 11-fold more profitable in Europe vs. China

https://fortune.com/europe/2024/04/29/eu-unwinnable-price-wa...

https://www.reddit.com/r/europe/comments/103xqo4/sweden_once...

Trudeau government had spent $66 million on sole-sourced McKinsey contracts since coming to power in 2015... under the Liberals McKinsey contracts have “exploded” by a factor of 30, according to Radio-Canada. This is particularly true at Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada, where insiders have fingered McKinsey with designing the Trudeau government’s policy of dramatically ramping up immigration to unprecedented levels.

https://nationalpost.com/opinion/first-reading-canada-the-la...

2022 - McKinsey Charged in South African Corruption Case

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/09/30/world/africa/mckinsey-cor...

The thing is when we read, particularly in growing years, the expectation is that we would remember most of things from the book and apply it somewhere else, ex. in a discussion "...agree, the same I gathered from this excellent book that I read couple of years back...".

And frankly, I'm bummed by it still. I read a lot but when certain situation comes I cannot remember things & facts vaguely, even though I had finished 300 pages of that page turner in one night.

The 3D map view is intriguing, I wonder where they are sourcing those from.

Thanks. You saved me the effort.

Is it because a news article is one time consumption, whereas music is not?

Excellent book on this:

Butler to the World - How Britain Helps the World's Worst People Launder Money, Commit Crimes, and Get Away with Anything.

https://us.macmillan.com/books/9781250281937/butlertotheworl...

Such an obvious thing to do.

Why it had to reach to University police for this to be initiated, why LA police did not do this at the start? Why the judge who sent the real Woods to mental hospital asked this to be done before giving that 'judgement'?

The key takeaway for me, they being wall street people - customer empathy was missing.

101 of salesmanship - understanding of customers needs, desires and then selling solutions for those. Here their customers were out of town weary travelers wanting to have a hassle free quick ride to a hotel or a meeting; have not used EVs before (perhaps never intend to), now have to focus on a new problem - how to learn a new skill of handling EV, how to plan for charging during their multi day trips.. etc.

> Find some huge problem(s) that they can charge a lot for.

> Ship a solution to that problem at a reasonable price.

> Whatever they sell must give customers enough confidence to merit adoption.

You know which company is this?

This is any of the million of companies, who build products based upon customer need and sells with reasonable or great profits - whether it is in space of consumer or enterprise.

Pureplay GenAI should only strive to serve these compamnies (via APIs). GenAI companies would have very hard time understanding end users and designing product as per their needs or domain specific workflows. Chat interfaces does not count as product building.

I read revenue figure for Atlantic, was curious about how does it compare to NYT, WSJ, found those, got some sense of the publishing landscape, so shared that.

People are becoming too aggressive here.

Atlantic annual revenue: $100 Million

For comparison..

NYT & WSJ: ~$2.4 Billion

Weblink: https://think.ing.com/articles/china-economy-not-in-a-great-...

One can get behind this, though.

This is 101 of product design - put in place a standard UI Guidelines. This is particularly important for a 'platform' player like what Meta is aiming for (Ex. from other platform/OS - Windows UI Guidelines, Apple's Human Interface Guidelines, Google's Material Design, etc..)

The acquisition was for “several hundred million pounds”, nowhere near tens of billions of dollars.