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I've written about the Rule of 40 since 2015, and it's now gospel in SaaS. Does it mean anything for a company that makes physical things? Yes - but you have to read the curve, not the snapshot.
Matt Birchler: As one final note, I think the thing that made this WWDC feel a little flat for people like me is that the segment on software updates was incredibly short. Typically, we get an hour and a half of updates detailing all the...
Put AI to work banishing spam
I visited my parents in Iowa last week. One thing I did was help with pulling out thistles that had been spreading throughout a couple garden beds — 89 plants one day, a couple more another day. But what kind of thistle were they? I was...
I now own the domain name - stealthfactory.com. My patience paid off.
The “baby boom” generation, made up of Americans born from after World War II up into the early 1960s, is sometimes called the “pig in the python” of US demographics. The pig started moving into retirement age around 2010, when the...
Excellent news from the University of Würzburg, where a researcher has discovered two unknown sermons by St Augustine in a Latin manuscript in Poland! The
1. The Cholita Climbers of Bolivia Photographed by David Jácome The Cholita Climbers of Bolivia, or Las Cholitas Escaladoras Bolivianas, are a group of Indigenous, Aymara, women mountaineers who climb peaks in Latin America. They do not...
Romeo, Juliet and Ginger? Somehow it doesn’t have the same ring to it, but theatre-goers in Turkey were offered the chance to witness a quick feline rewrite of possibly the most famous death scene of all time. Romeo and Juliet may be the...
If someone makes the following business prediction: event X will happen in 5 (or more years) think to yourself: they absolutely have no idea. As I said in an earlier post: For any business prediction, the time frame determines the...
No one *needs* this.
Last year I heard this song from a band called Loser Demon. The song is called Holding Ground and here's the chorus that has been stuck in my soul ever since (added words, mine): would you believe that this is it and it is good? doesn't...
Highest-grossing director in history. Most-thanked person in Oscar history. An actual word in the Oxford English Dictionary. And that's just the bits we can measure.
“Oh, it’s just a trick thing.” – Ben Ames Williams, Coconuts Here are six puzzles, some of them classics, that don’t look much alike on the surface. After stating them, I’ll give a hint about what they have in common. Then I’ll present...