Something I've found useful is just reaching out to past employees. Usually folks that don't work there anymore will be more transparent. Only challenge is getting someone to respond to you, but you'd be surprised how many folks will talk if you don't come off like you're trying to sell them something or a bot.
This made me laugh. I tried Epic because I got a free game that I was interested in, but could only play it on the Epic Game store. After a week, I was no longer able to login no matter what I tried. So anecdotally, your statement tracks with my experience.
> For one there is no indication that parents are any more literate in regards to digital practices than their kids
This one hit me recently. My 4th grader has a friend who is on tik-toc and has a phone. Me, living in a bubble, where other parents I've met are terrified of social media and phones for their kids, was shocked when I met the mom and she wasn't aware of all the negative impact of social media. But, like with smokers, you can tell them it's bad for you but it's up to them to quit.
Chuck Prince from Citigroup. "When the music stops, in terms of liquidity, things will be complicated. But as long as the music is playing, you’ve got to get up and dance. We’re still dancing"
His explanation of the quote:
'"My belief then and my belief now is that one firm in this business cannot unilaterally withdraw from the business and maintain its ability to conduct business in the future,” Mr. Prince said."'
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'"And if you are not engaged in business, people leave the institution, so it is impossible to say in my view to your bankers we are just not going to participate in the business in the next year or so until things become a little more rational," he said. "You can’t do that and expect to have any people left to conduct business in the future."'
The dirtiest management trick I know is get a manager to make a promise to employees, fire the manager, and then refuse to honor the promise, because the organization is not accountable for honoring promises made by its representatives (which is bullshit but we haven’t cracked how to push back).
Huge bets were made on the Internet technology in the US and it paid off even with the dot com bubble bursting.
If we don't stay on top of technology then we will simply be passed by China.
People also said the Internet was going revolutionize everything in the 90s and it did. AI is already pretty impressive and we are just in the infancy of the technology.
The thing is, China seems to be able to keep up with much less invested. I don't know how much it took for them to create DeepSeek and their other power efficient models, but it sure doesn't take much to run them. Meanwhile American AI seems to have a limitless hunger for energy.
China is doing what they have done best for decades - lean on western tech, and improve it's efficiency. They're still clearly behind on SOA developments in AI.
But they are obviously rocketing ahead in energy capacity, which will be the real bottleneck as data centers continue to scale.
Then we should become more efficient. I do get your point that the amount of money available as investment could be responsible for inefficient growth (because the focus is only on the goal).
A solution could be competition locally by a more efficient implementations. There might also be push back by local populations if it causes energy prices to rise.
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