losthalo

Will a Roku stick work with one?

And if you win it might take so long that you're already dead by then.

A picture is worth 10K words - but only those to describe the picture. Hardly any sets of 10K words can be adequately described with pictures. --Alan Perlis

And thus the Gimp-Jimp wars began, even more brutal than the XEmacs-GNUEmacs wars.

X + Y + [XY] = 8

X = the individual's contribution

Y = the contribution of the system they work within

[XY] = the interaction of the individual with the system

8 represents some measure of productivity, e.g., rate of errors, millions of dollars in profit, whatever you're measuring

The person who can solve for X is competent to rate people on their performance.

What to do instead of (destructively) rating people?

Build better systems for doing the work, make their work easier, give them psychological safety and job security so they can relax and enjoy their work and share better methods with each other.

(All paraphrased from W. Edwards Deming.)

Competition within organizations is for amateurs.

Do you think AI is going to solve the problems of proprietary data formats and retraining entire workforces to whole new workflows?

AI isn't, so far as I can tell, a universal Easy Button®.

Open Source didn't scratch the surface of those problems, but AI will solve them somehow?

Has anyone done a real study on what value the financial industly adds?

The problem is the cost to shift to a new product, not cost of the product.