Consultative Selling - by Mack Hanan.
pretty much you've to sell dollars to high up decision makers. and promise ROI. pretty radical.
just have to put what I have been reading in practice.
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pretty much you've to sell dollars to high up decision makers. and promise ROI. pretty radical.
just have to put what I have been reading in practice.
largely due the us gvt hiding information, suppressing. e.g all the bases in the Middle East are toast in range of missiles or drones. that means the us will withdraw from them silently.
weapons stockpiles are almost depleted. and replacing them takes years.
so 10% of Iran GDP vs that --
or processes can be restarted if they were not preserved and actively practiced.
maybe they will succeed just like how it was done with the Interstate Commerce Commission.
but likely now competition is global thanks to the Chinese labs and other small model providers like Mistral.
Japanese auto makers are already good at hybrid power trains, small engines.
surely extended range vehicles - 1000km+/700mi+ shouldn't be limited to Chinese brands only.
the coups that happened recently in west africa are largely due to that largely hidden cost.
dhh says 37signal's apps for Hey (their email platform moving to native)
backend for their email platform is now Rust - written by agents
says Rust produces small binaries - cutting number of servers needed from 110 to 10. hell they could serve peak traffic on a Raspberry Pi
says now that agents write all the code - use faster / native languages.
rails or ruby hardly get a mention besides that they might be well placed to capture web apps written by agents.
funny enough before people used to make estimates of how earth won't have resources to carry a large population. hence some people would need to settle in space or that there needs to a massive drive in birth control, which led to Chinese 1 child policy which has had a devastating effect.
which means the company sees both the delivery worker and the person who ordered as suckers. no wonder ride-share companies jumped onto food-delivery.
because luckily in the UK market - companies books are open to the public.
however - seems a lot of people these days are into performance theatre. maybe the blessing of A.I is it took away the need for leetcode.
if you're a startup with less than 20 people, hell even less than 100. why do you have 4 interview stages. 2 calls should be enough. hire quickly, fire quickly if need be.
how much cheaper and accessible transportation would be. on the other side uber Lyft etc enabled plenty of people who were perennially unemployed to gain income. while the subsidized rates are gone, seems the ride share companies are making some of their money on food deliveries instead (another place robots could take over ??)
anyways this is a good move from Waymo if only the program can be maintained for 20+ years.
honestly I think it's not a bad move - as it allows for tactical flexibility.
just like the USA at it's founding - deliberate actions were taken etc that were counter to the normal. & going against the wind takes a lot of energy.
at a certain point in time - you run out of energy or you've to keep keep reinvesting to not run out otherwise barbarians are knocking down at the gate.
companies exist for the sole reason to make money - not to make the world better - that's a side effect.
but unfortunately a lot of people wanna see the world as they wish it to be, not the way it is.
judgement + taste is the difference maker.
then just use Cloudflare tunnels to connect to the laptop.
if your biological child is an idiot/wasteman - then you could adopt - the Roman Empire ran on adopted children, with biological children seen as wasteman.
the other way it's done e.g with Japanese businesses - again adopt your son in law and give him your surname.
the thing about giving helm to the sons - is usually you would've had a whole lifetime to evaluate the candidate 20+ years. do mistakes happen yeah, but honestly the risk is overblown.
hell dare I say better than the pull-request model - since you don't have to wait on people to review the code and deal with the nonsense of merge-trains.
that's the point of the effort after all.
warren as smart as he is was tryna go against the grain of thousands of human evolution. if you train your kids - then most likely they would've values similar to yours. hit or miss but most times a hit.
they need to pick a lane and optimize for it. coz at their size they can't serve the application layer (a.i startups who can fine-tune models will eat their lunch)
if they gonna do a consumer play - then go ham on that.
otherwise they're gonna get caught in the dreaded middle valley.
china has cheap abundant power, now they can make their own inference chips (which was supposed to be a chokepoint), their models yeah can be 6 months behind the frontier - but most people don't need frontier models - small models r more than enough.
my only wish was labs like Mistral would make their own inference chips or partner up eg with established / new chip makers or companies like Oxide.
now we r just noticing the grave getting dug deeper.
this is one of one of those things - were in the current era either a cloud provider should provide automatic backups in another geographic zone.
if you're in us-east, then your back-ups should ideally be in eu-west + africa for redundancy.
if you gonna work in a big team or need a project with lots of devs then yeah go for the JVM.
but if you're doing things on the smaller / small scale side. - just use JS/TS or python. you benefit from cheap runtimes such as Cloudflare workers.
the only thing that few people are willing to admit is that humans are the bottleneck as humans are needed to handhold / verify output - which puts a dent or might I say pause on the excessive valuations of a.i companies as that's against the narrative.