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I'm as much of a Tesla Fan Boy that you can be but I have to say, the F-150 seems like a darn good vehicle and it's sad they're killing it. I especially like the V2X features.

The Mythical Man Month and The Phoenix Project.

Threatened… or informed them about what would happen? What’s the difference?

I suppose Swedish Tesla workers have the same beneficial stock buying agreement that other countries have. No more of that if they are unionized.

The margins were inflated during the pandemic, though. Musk even called their prices "embarrassingly expensive".

https://www.carscoops.com/2022/07/teslas-prices-are-embarras...

First of all, the mission of Tesla is to transition the world to sustainable energy. If you believe them, that should be enough.

But, second of all, this also makes business sense. Everyone will have to use the Tesla app, where they can get targeted offers and become a kind of "Tesla Light" customers. People wonder why Tesla doesn't advertise. Well, with these deals, the need for advertising is a lot less than without them. Also, Tesla is essentially becoming a platform for EVs. How long before some OEM license Tesla software?

And, remember that there are over 17000 superchargers in the US alone and the deal with Ford and GM only allows access to 12000 of them in the US and Canada together. To get the full Supercharger experience, you still need a Tesla.

Less than x [time unit] since y released z.

Here are n [jawdropping|amazing|stunning] examples of what people has done with it.

Probably for all the unimportant NPCs running around in a game, AI does a good enough job. But for the main characters and the plot, I suspect a human touch is still needed. Climb up the value chain. If you're cranking out monsters in volume, you're at the bottom.

Intelligence Augmentation?

Yeah. Clearly no one goes there anymore. The place is too crowded.

"Developers! Developers! Developers!"

He wasn't kidding.

You guys are funny. An AI generates a game, comes up with the rules, writes the code and designs the web page for it. Your reactions:

- Bah, it's not very fun.

- It's been done before.

- It took too long to make.

Seriously. Let me repeat that. An AI generates a game. It comes up with the rules for the game. It even writes the code and designs the web page for it!

Come on! This is amazing!

Cool video for sure.

Wasn’t there a post the other day about Tesla’s self driving video was staged since it was the best take on multiple attempts?

Does anyone think this was not “staged” and carefully preprogrammed for a specific demo?

Not that it’s not impressive but still. I can’t have “staged” robots in my warehouse.

Yeah, and highest margin by far in the auto industry. While growing 50% per year.

Yeah, they need to place theses jurassic creatures in a park on an island somewhere.

I mean, what could possibly go wrong?

Right. My initial reaction was “what!? Minecraft has an ending?”. Finishing the game is not at all part of the appeal of the game. It’s like having an ending to your LEGO pieces.

Text generated by GPT-3 and voices are rendered with https://github.com/neonbjb/tortoise-tts

Clearly, the AI wants to hide its sinister nature to us.

If you haven't read "The Five Love Languages" yet and are in a relationship, then I highly suggest you do. It might save it before it's too late.

And just to make this slightly more startup-related as well: as team members, we also have "love languages", ways we communicate respect and appreciation to each other. Sometimes we speak different languages and don't understand each other. That breaks the team.

There's one difference though: back then there was a lot more uncertainty about just how bad things would get. When the curves were trending upwards, we didn't know how far they would go.

I read somewhere that the definition of a pandemic being over is not when it's not dangerous anymore, it's when it stops being unpredictable.

There is absolutely no one that will come and assist Sweden when Russia decides to take Gotland if we’re not in NATO.

And it’s extremely selfish by the self proclaimed humanitarian super power to not step in and help if some of our Baltic neighbors were attacked.

The cost of a strong enough military outside NATO is higher than inside. 4-5% of GDP vs 2%.

If Finland joins, Sweden will follow. We can't be the only baltic nation outside NATO. That would be both foolish and selfish. With the third largest party, SD, switching there is a majority in Riksdagen pro-NATO. S will follow soon.

This kind of assumptions mapping can be really helpful in many cases, not just sales. Customer journeys for the user experience, for example. Or for driving change internally in large organisations.

Not to mention Windows updates.

Nikon does video cameras?

“All user input is error.” - Elon Musk

Timeboxing is so powerful, done right.

You can do it all the way down to Pomodoro-like work chunks counted in minutes, up to long term strategic goals and have things like quarterly OKRs and Scrum-like sprints in the middle.

The best entrepreneurs naturally think and act like this, from Elon Musk to the late IKEA-founder Ingvar Kamprad, who is quoted saying:

“You can do so much in 10 minutes time. Ten minutes, once gone, are gone for good. Divide your life into 10-minute units and sacrifice as few of them as possible in meaningless activity.”

Andre the Giant level of consumption.

If you're in to "young people building their own home" then check out Erik Grankvist building a small cabin in the middle of the forest using only primitive tools.

Here's a 2 hour video that's very relaxing to have on in the background (only the sound of hard work, no speech): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BBX5qh09OIE&t=7s&ab_channel=...

And, yes, he begins by literally chopping down trees.

I'm getting a strong sense of deja vu from the early days of the iPhone.