Inside Tesla's Secret Second Floor | WIRED
Though it was obvious why we were building the systems at the heart of our product, such as the battery and motors, many people had difficulty understanding why we manufactured high-voltage cables, displays, fuses, and other smaller systems.
4 minute read - interesting insights into Tesla manufacturing and vertical integration that have offered sustainable competitive advantage with rapid iteration ^ADJ
Are You Picking the Right Wallet? - Bain & Company...
When deciding where to allocate their salesforce capacity, many business-to-business companies base their choices on current and historical spending by customer. Accounts spending more with the company usually get more sales resources. But to attain stronger sales growth, it’s critical to understand each customer’s total potential spending by the relevant product category. Estimates of a customer’s wallet size can be built through heuristic models based on public and internal data that predicts or is a proxy for spending levels.
2 minute read - much harder to implement, especially across multi-disciplinary firms ^ADJ
Run Better Meetings with This Expert-Level Advice ...
Meetings slow things down. They lose focus fast. They recur on calendars with plodding and unnecessary regularity — inspiring dread and dimming everyone's energy. This happens because people feel like they need them. Most of the time they don't (we have some advice for this). But sometimes they do. There's no getting around board meetings, all-hands meetings, and one-on-ones (in fact, you really shouldn't want to). What you can change is how you run them.
6 minute read - we all need to do better at this, after reading this and some work that we are doing internally at IT Partners, I know that I can do better and be more effective ^ADJ
'Western society is chronically sleep deprived': the importance of the body's clock | Science | The Guardian
The 2017 Nobel prize for medicine was awarded for the discovery of how our circadian rhythms are controlled. But what light does it shed on the cycle of life?
4 minute read - if you really want to do something about it visit www.ouraring.com ^ADJ
How Smartphones Hijack Our Minds - WSJ
So you bought that new iPhone. If you are like the typical owner, you’ll be pulling your phone out and using it some 80 times a day, according to data Apple collects. That means you’ll be consulting the glossy little rectangle nearly 30,000 times over the coming year. Your new phone, like your old one, will become your constant companion and trusty factotum—your teacher, secretary, confessor, guru. The two of you will be inseparable.
4 minute read - yip I'm pretty guilty of this, trying to get better ^ADJ