a new buzzword making waves throughout the financial industry: “distributed ledger.”
Designing great data products - O'Reilly Radar - 1 views
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Note from Bill Fulkerson: The Drivetrain Approach: A four-step process for building data products. We are entering the era of data as drivetrain, where we use data not just to generate more data (in the form of predictions), but use data to produce actionable outcomes. That is the goal of the Drivetrain Approach.
Private 'Distributed Ledgers' Miss the Point of a Blockchain | Bank Think - 0 views
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Some say it's a tool to enable transparency by ensuring that all members of a group receive cryptographically secured messages about participants’ activities
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Some are even bold enough to predict that distributed ledgers will end the madness of managing multiple database and reconciliation structures.
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POWER-CURVE SOCIETY: The Future of Innovation, Opportunity and Social Equity in the Eme... - 1 views
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how technological innovation is restructuring productivity and the social and economic impact resulting from these changes
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concern about the technological displacement of jobs, stagnant middle class income, and wealth disparities in an emerging "winner-take-all" economy
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personal data ecosystems that could potentially unlock a revolutionary wave of individual economic empowerment
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On the Phenomenon of Bullshit Jobs - STRIKE! - 1 views
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financial services or telemarketing, or the unprecedented expansion of sectors like corporate law, academic and health administration, human resources, and public relations
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provide administrative, technical, or security support for these industries, or for that matter the whole host of ancillary industries (dog-washers, all-night pizza deliverymen) that only exist because everyone else is spending so much of their time working in all the other ones
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It’s as if someone were out there making up pointless jobs just for the sake of keeping us all working. And here, precisely, lies the mystery. In capitalism, this is exactly what is not supposed to happen
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The Culture Deck - Medium - 2 views
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Several new books on management focus on culture and process in place of predictive strategy
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“do the right thing,” which can’t be stated in rules, because it always depends on context.
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twice-a-year manager reviews by employees.
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Design Like No One Is Patenting - How SparkFun Stays Ahead of the Pack - 0 views
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Electronics supplier SparkFun designs dozens of products a year and they haven’t patented a single one. It’s worked out pretty well so far.
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makes its living by shipping kits and components like bread boards, servo motors and Arduino parts to a mixture of students, hobbyists, and professionals making prototypes
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the company has made its name is in a stable of its own custom parts and kits, the designs for which it gives away for free.
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AI Smart Contracts. The Age of A.I. - 4 views
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