Unfortunately, I think moving up the hierarchy is one of the biggest security blankets as you get older. No one seems to question when a VP, CFO, or CEO is 50+. Age seems to be an asset in this case.
There are many cradle to grace analyses that include calculations of costs for externalities. In terms of software for this, the big question is who would pay for it?
I don’t understand why the OP is being downvoted. Climate change is real and causing temperature and weather anomalies all over the world, including record warm temps and droughts in the western continental United States.
Every time I’ve seen a company bought by private equity, it spells the beginning of the end. The strategy always seems to milk every last drop of cash from the business, without any long term sustainable plan. As an anecdotal case, I visited Sea World over the summer and half the concessions and shows were closed. It was still expensive and crowded and and there were service bottlenecks everywhere. Long lines for a bottle of water. Midday I said to myself, I bet this place was bought out by private equity. I looked up Sea World’s ownership structure when I got home and low and behold, private equity is involved.
Setting all the recent issues aside, I remember a time when I would always check Southwest Airlines for flight options before any other airline and they’d often win my business. For the last ~5 years I don’t even bother. Their prices are at best the same as all the other major airlines (just as likely to be more expensive) and their flight schedules are just okay. I don’t understand how Southwest is maintaining market share (perhaps it’s not).
This was Murdoch's strategy; e.g., launching both Fox, with its salacious shows ("who wants to marry a millionaire," "married with children") and at the same time launching fox news, a conservative news network.
I worked for a big consulting firm and the only time you were in the office at a hot desk was when you were doing CBTs and billing time to professional development. It was not viewed positively by anyone.
Unfortunately, right leaning in the US has come to include views that run counter to science, diversity/inclusivity, and human rights for all (right to vote, right to choose). Are these views welcome in tech companies? Not generally.
Bitcoin and cryptocurrency in its current form is environmental lunacy. I don't know what problem digital currency solves when the planet can no longer sustain human life due to climate change.
We desperately need news aggregators and social media services like Reddit, Facebook, Twitter, that are NOT run by for profit enterprises. There are a lot of terrific open source platforms out there and saddened that none of them have gained much traction.
If we don’t respond to climate change now and aggressively, like we are fighting a war, humanity is toast. Climate change will quickly wipe out most life on earth. The IPCC “code red” report doesn’t even take into account several enormous feedback effects such as methane off gassing from rock formations.
The tax code is structured this way by design, by rich people. If rich people wanted a simplified tax code without loopholes, then they would actively lobby for this, and I guarantee congress would act to simplify the tax code.
Read the about page for your source, BBspot.com: "Called "the world's greatest tech humour site" by The Register, BBspot creates entertainment for the geekier side of the world. BBspot produces a variety of features like fake news stories satirizing the tech and political worlds, the BBspot Mailbag which pokes fun at the Believers (people who believe our fake news) and much more."
Note the video is interactive and can be manipulated with your mouse pointer and the menu at the bottom of the video. I recommend checking out some of Koblin's other projects as well. Hope you enjoy! :-)
If you look around Silicon Valley, you see a lot of companies that have a culture similar to HP in its heydays, when the "HP Way" was still going strong. HP was one of the early companies to succeed in the Valley. I suspect other early companies in the Valley also had strong cultural influences on startups in the Valley. We know, for instance, that many startups emerge from individuals that worked for established companies, and what better way to transmit a culture than through individuals leaving one company and starting another.
I think Twitter might be a complement to Google, but not a substitute. Just curious to hear what others think... I have a Twitter account, but haven't used it much. It's hard to find time in the day to post. The search function in Twitter seems like it could be useful, but with 6 million users there aren't enough posts to provide relevant search results for many search terms.
So you have 200 hours of remaining work? In my opinion it would be unethical to leave the project hanging. Can you establish a specific deadline/deliverable within a 40-80 timeframe (e.g, get the project into beta) and then work out an alternate (e.g., flexible, work at home, higher hourly rate) arrangement to move the project through the final stages (e.g., QA)?