nateburke

In the food industry is it more profitable to sell whole cakes or just the sweetener?

The article makes a great point about replit and legacy ERP systems. The generative in generative AI will not replace storage, storage is where the margins live.

Unless the C in CRUD can eventually replace the R and U, with the D a no-op.

I think there's something about Sonic's face that is timeless, innate, prehistoric even.

I am also curious about the mentioning of Indian males in the text alongside native American women, with the chart excluding Indian males, this is also somewhat confusing.

It is hard to get a sense of the actual data supporting the claims in the article.

Part of the small business trades success narrative is built upon trust, trust that in youth, doing good work will create a reputation within your community that will be remembered, and form the foundation for a brand (your name) that can attract the next generation of youth to be developed, trained, etc.

If successful small businesses only exist to get acquired, so that both workers and customers suffer, that foundation of trust will struggle to persist.

No, it's "traditional" things for their kids that are CHALLENGING and require practice, like woodworking, learning an instrument, sports, memorizing texts for fun.

“But moreover, I discovered, in the only way that a man ever really learns anything important, the real skill that is required to succeed in a bureaucracy. I mean really succeed: do good, make a difference, serve. I discovered the key. This key is not efficiency, or probity, or insight, or wisdom. It is not political cunning, interpersonal skills, raw IQ, loyalty, vision, or any of the qualities that the bureaucratic world calls virtues, and tests for. The key is a certain capacity that underlies all these qualities, rather the way that an ability to breathe and pump blood underlies all thought and action.

“The underlying bureaucratic key is the ability to deal with boredom. To function effectively in an environment that precludes everything vital and human. To breathe, so to speak, without air.

“The key is the ability, whether innate or conditioned, to find the other side of the rote, the picayune, the meaningless, the repetitive, the pointlessly complex. To be, in a word, unborable.

“It is the key to modern life. If you are immune to boredom, there is literally nothing you cannot accomplish.

David Foster Wallace, The Pale King

cf. Mean Girls

> More that's tight means more to see, more for them, not more for me

> That can't help me climb a tree in ten seconds flat

-Dar Williams

CT has a robust technical educational system, a relic of the heyday of Colt, Pratt & Whitney, and UTC, now Raytheon. One of the best states for it, glad to see it getting some attention here.

Irrelevant, but also fantastic.

Plumbing work is not cheap.

It's pure vanity for a startup to think they will become the next AWS by adopting hard service-based contracts between teams.

The only other enterprise application I am aware of is applying the homework cheating app to customer facing roles that require email/copy generation.

Probably not Alibaba though.