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Since former BCG consultant Clayton Christensen first used the term "disruptive innovation" in 1995, nimble startups have challenged incumbents in every field from music to manufacturing. Now, a tectonic disruption is hitting management consulting just as it has hit many other industries.
A classic pattern in technology economics, identified by Joel Spolsky, is layers of the stack attempting to become monopolies while turning other layers into perfectly-competitive markets which are commoditized, in order to harvest most of the consumer surplus; discussion and examples.
Patrick Collison started Stripe, dropped out of MIT, and reads 1–2 books a week. In this episode, he breaks down how Stripe was built, what most orgs get wrong about bets, why speed beats precision in decision making, and how to actually learn from the right people. It’s a masterclass in clarity.
In their effort to prevent states from protecting a free and open Internet, a small handful of massive and extraordinarily profitably Internet service providers (ISPs) are telling state legislatures that network neutrality would hinder their ability to raise revenues to pay for upgrades and thus...
Email and IM are always there in the background, compelling us to click over for a "quick" check in. But these add up. Which made us ask: How much of your day is spent multitasking with communication tools? And just how bad is it for your productivity?
Some companies think it's okay to pay people less just because rent is cheaper, but compensation is about so much more than the square footage you live in.
Google and Facebook represent one philosophy, and Microsoft and Apple represent another; tech needs both, but ultimately platforms are more important than aggregators.
Since 2014 this blog has extensively covered the wireless networks built by high-frequency trading (HFT) firms or network providers to reduce latencies between the different exchanges around the wo…
Red Hat, Inc. (NYSE: RHT), the world's leading provider of open source solutions, today announced the first steps for integrating CoreOS Tectonic, Quay, and Container Linux with Red Hat’s robust container and Kubernetes-based solutions portfolio. Container application platforms like Red Hat OpenShift Container…
The Security Key by Yubico with FIDO2 enables passwordless login for Windows 10 devices and Microsoft Azure Active Directory.
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How Mozilla’s new language dramatically improved our server-side performance
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On the commodification of attention, the abuses of unpaid microwork and strategies of resistance.
LLCs are the entity of choice for many small teams, side projects, and bootstrapped businesses.
