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Your Eco-Friendly Lifestyle Is a Big Lie
Your Eco-Friendly Lifestyle Is a Big Lie
Eating organic and switching to low-energy light bulbs feels like the green thing to do, but are people missing the bigger opportunities right in front of them?
·wired.com·
Your Eco-Friendly Lifestyle Is a Big Lie
Need it take 7,500 people to run Twitter?
Need it take 7,500 people to run Twitter?
When WhatsApp was sold to Facebook in 2014, it had almost half a billion monthly users, but a team of just 50 people running everything. Compare this to Twitter, which today has a staff of 7,500 to manage half the number of users. Yet Musk is the crazy one here for suggesting that maybe Twitter could operate with a mere TWO THOUSAND em...
·world.hey.com·
Need it take 7,500 people to run Twitter?
AWS Is Too Big to Fail
AWS Is Too Big to Fail
Amazon Web Services, Amazon’s stunningly profitable cloud division, powers the online presences of millions of users—and by users, I mean Fortune Global 2000 heavyweights ranging from Netflix to iRobot to the Nasdaq stock exchange. Quite simply, AWS is too big and has too many customers for the ...
·theinformation.com·
AWS Is Too Big to Fail
Don’t Throw It Away 🗑️
Don’t Throw It Away 🗑️
In yesterday’s Tedium, there was this weird anecdote I uncovered about how a marketing research company managed to create untold amounts of environmental damage in an Iowa community because it couldn’t figure out how to get rid of all the waste that its business—processing coupons—created. Which is quite a weird problem to have, don’t you think?When we try to ditch things we used to rely on, there’s a tendency to think, “out of sight, out of mind.”That is not a theory I subscribe to. Despite ha…
·midrange.tedium.co·
Don’t Throw It Away 🗑️