Carmine: “Find something others are not looking at, then build a structure that lets you be wrong about it for three years without getting taken off the board.”
Peggy Noonan: “As religion recedes, politics takes its place. As confidence fades, political movements grow radical.”
NYTimes: “Unlike executive assistants, the chief of staff is often a senior level role, according to data from Indeed, because they serve as a second brain for the busy boss. An executive assistant “figures out what time something goes on the calendar, but a chief of staff figures out whether it should go on the calendar at all,” said Clara Ma.”
WSJ: “For the last four years, Jan Laenen, a senior director of engineering at Kellanova, has had a lofty ambition: to ensure that every crisp, salty chip coming off the production line is, in essence, the perfect Pringle…In that time, Laenen’s team has been working with Siemens to build a real-time “digital twin” of the Pringle dough as it moves through the production line of the company’s factory in Poland. New sensors and live machine data were integrated to create live digital versions of the dough, capturing minute variances in raw materials—like the particle size of the flour. That data now feeds into an AI model that can pre-emptively suggest how to tweak the machines to account for those variances, ensuring every chip is consistent, and flawless.”
[Via Tyler Cowen]: “As weapon systems increase in effectiveness, they will generally target one another rather than humans. Lower loss of life will ease conflict entry and hinder exit. Warfare will veer further from industrial competition into techno-industrial; the current appearance of parity between low tech and advanced actors reflects near zero deployment of advanced systems. As these deploy, their martial advantages will present clearly. The need for advanced ecosystems will lead to blocs able to combine human capital, techno-industrial capacity, and inputs. Logistics may be contested at elevated levels, changing the incentives around geographic size and increasing the value of inputs. Blocs may well engage in near constant warfare of various intensity levels. Bloc composition will be necessity driven, perhaps with increased fluidity.”
