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Finding your ikigai
I had a busy day, but I still find time to squeeze in a short existential crisis. Tolg a friend that while I’m happy, I’m not sure I have an ikigai any more. He said “Huh?” so I decided to explain the word. Declan Dunn once explained that “you don’t search Google for the meaning […]
Google is sharing its management tools with the world
Written by Leah Fessler Speaking at his alma mater in January, Sundar Pichai, Google’s low-profile CEO, revealed his key to effective management: “Let others succeed.” Enacting Pichai’s advice is easier said than done. But Google is sharing some tools that might help. Its Re:Work blog is offering a series of instructive documents used by managers […]
Colombia building house out of recycled plastic
Amazon’s private brands have gone from $0 to $2.5 billion in sales in less than a decade
Cloud driver profiles mean any Tesla could automatically become your Tesla
Imagine getting into any car and it knowing who you are and how you like your car configured I’d rather just have the car/driver take me where I need to go, but this idea sounds so cool I had to share Tesla has a plan to move its personalized driver profiles, which track things like […]
Microsoft researchers achieve new conversational speech recognition milestone
Markforged announces two 3D printers that produce items as strong as steel
With fewer cash registers, Hershey tries to re-create the impulse buy online – Digiday
The convenience of picking up an item while standing in line has been a big influence on store design. And why we have a zillion Convenience Stores. Merchandising is sometimes neglected in ecommerce stores, though the state of the art in merchandising is Amazon and the algorithms. Putting on a headset to shop may just […]
Google touts Titan security chip to market cloud services
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – Alphabet Inc’s (GOOGL.O) Google this week will disclose technical details of its new Titan computer chip, an elaborate security feature for its cloud computing network that the company hopes will enable it to steal a march on Amazon.com Inc (AMZN.O) and Microsoft Corp (MSFT.O). Titan is the size of a tiny […]