{"id":4541,"date":"2021-04-10T22:30:13","date_gmt":"2021-04-10T20:30:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/silta.es\/juantatay\/?p=4541"},"modified":"2021-04-10T22:30:13","modified_gmt":"2021-04-10T20:30:13","slug":"2021-w-11-12","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/silta.es\/juantatay\/2021-w-11-12\/","title":{"rendered":"2021 w #11-12"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"body markup\">\n<h4>Thinking about the economic cycles of industrial and technological revolutions<\/h4>\n<p>It\u2019s taken for granted that the cycle is as it is, what if it stops being so?<\/p>\n<p>If we anticipate the initial inequality derived from the beginning of a revolution, we will not avoid the revolution but we will avoid its initial effects of increasing inequality.<\/p>\n<div>\n<hr \/>\n<\/div>\n<h4>The European Commission&#8217;s approach to AI<\/h4>\n<p>Leading ethics in AI by giving up technical leadership &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Is the EC goal on AI adaptation or resignation?<\/p>\n<div>\n<hr \/>\n<\/div>\n<h4>Talent attraction<\/h4>\n<p>If incentives are offered everywhere, eventually local talent will be offered incentives to stay where they are.<\/p>\n<p>If a lot of \u00abhigh\u00bb talent goes to the same place \u2013city, region\u2013, what will be the (\u00abnot so high\u00bb) local talent be doing?<br \/>\nWhat are the chances for B players if everyone wants only A players?<\/p>\n<p>Not to mention, A players want to be paid as A players, so the companies attracting them needs some size, what gives large companies a powerful advantage.<\/p>\n<div>\n<hr \/>\n<\/div>\n<h4>Sponsorized newsletters<\/h4>\n<p>Do anybody read the ads?<\/p>\n<div>\n<hr \/>\n<\/div>\n<h4>4 days workweek<\/h4>\n<p>A serial entrepreneur brags about how a large global corporation improved productivity after enforcing the 4-day work week, something said entrepreneur implemented earlier\u2026<\/p>\n<p>He did not mention how, at his company, the small size and pressure from management to deliver demos, products and keep customers satisfied made it impossible to meet the 4-day workweek and increased overtime.<\/p>\n<p>You should compare apples to apples\u2026.<\/p>\n<div>\n<hr \/>\n<\/div>\n<h4>George Bernard Shaw<\/h4>\n<blockquote><p>El cerebro de un necio puede transformar la filosof\u00eda en tonter\u00eda, la ciencia en superstici\u00f3n y el arte en pedanter\u00eda.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>The brain of a fool can transform philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Looking for that quote in english (which I didn\u2019t found) I found this other one:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>If you have an apple and I have an apple and we exchange these apples then you and I will still each have one apple. But if you have an idea and I have an idea and we exchange these ideas, then each of us will have two ideas.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div>\n<hr \/>\n<\/div>\n<h4>J. C. R. Licklider (1960), \u201cLick\u201d quoted by Alan Kay<\/h4>\n<blockquote><p>Computers are destined to become interactive intellectual amplifiers for everyone in the world universally networked worlwide.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div id=\"youtube2-id1WShzzMCQ\" class=\"youtube-wrap\" data-attrs=\"{&quot;videoId&quot;:&quot;id1WShzzMCQ&quot;,&quot;startTime&quot;:&quot;1987&quot;,&quot;endTime&quot;:null}\"><iframe src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/id1WShzzMCQ?start=1987&amp;rel=0&amp;autoplay=0&amp;showinfo=0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>via <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/tobioworks\">Javier Tobio<\/a><\/p>\n<div>\n<hr \/>\n<\/div>\n<h4>The 3rd can be the 1st<\/h4>\n<p>The 3rd could be 1st in size, if in your comparison you decide not to account the real 1st and 2nd, much larger &#x1f60e;<\/p>\n<p>Like 3rd is 30K, but it\u2019d be 1st if you don\u2019t account 1st (50K) and 2nd (40K).<br \/>\nOr 3rd is the 1st under 35K\u2026 crazy.<\/p>\n<div>\n<hr \/>\n<\/div>\n<h4>Wayne Gretzky, \u201ca good hockey player goes to where the puck is; a great one goes to where the puck will be!\u201d \u2026<\/h4>\n<p>\u2026he didn\u2019t mean tracking the puck, he meant getting into a place where somebody could pass him the puck where he could make a goal.<\/p>\n<p>So what he did is he looked at the entire configuration, saw where the future was going to be, and went to that place.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"captioned-image-container\">\n<figure><a class=\"image-link image2 image2-1086-1456\" href=\"https:\/\/cdn.substack.com\/image\/fetch\/f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep\/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F6ea6fecb-6f98-4c5b-bf75-c99b2d60ac96_1523x1136.png\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.substack.com\/image\/fetch\/w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep\/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F6ea6fecb-6f98-4c5b-bf75-c99b2d60ac96_1523x1136.png\" alt=\"\" data-attrs=\"{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https:\/\/bucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com\/public\/images\/6ea6fecb-6f98-4c5b-bf75-c99b2d60ac96_1523x1136.png&quot;,&quot;height&quot;:1086,&quot;width&quot;:1456,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:null,&quot;bytes&quot;:782210,&quot;alt&quot;:null,&quot;title&quot;:null,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image\/png&quot;,&quot;href&quot;:null}\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<div>\n<hr \/>\n<\/div>\n<h4>The real job of management is to learn things<\/h4>\n<div>\n<hr \/>\n<\/div>\n<h4>\u00fcbercool<\/h4>\n<p>An entrepreneur owes almost 4 months of payrolls to its team (and much more to suppliers, taxes and social security), asking them to resist since his vision is about to come true &#8230;like years before (while he still got funding).<\/p>\n<div>\n<hr \/>\n<\/div>\n<h4>Suez Canal blocked by huge container ship<\/h4>\n<p>And the problems with goods distribution it brought are what they call geopolitics and global economy.<\/p>\n<div>\n<hr \/>\n<\/div>\n<h4>After a remote year, tech&#8217;s shadow workforce barely hangs on<\/h4>\n<p>Tens of thousands of people in Silicon Valley make a living by keeping tech campuses running. When the pandemic hit, the micro-economy they supported collapsed overnight. Now, the potential of remote work has created more even questions about their future.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wired.com\/story\/after-remote-year-tech-shadow-workforce-barely-hangs-on\/\">wired<\/a><\/p>\n<div>\n<hr \/>\n<\/div>\n<p>That\u2019s all folks<\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thinking about the economic cycles of industrial and technological revolutions It\u2019s taken for granted that the cycle is as it is, what if it stops being so? 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