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Witnessing firsthand the absence of coherent planning, he drew at least two conclusions. First, leaving the civilian war effort in the hands of naturally competitive private companies from the two countries was undercutting the efforts of both nations. Second, the allies could not pursue their national interests separately and then hope to coordinate their actions successfully. They had to pool interests at the start, creating a totally different mind-set and strategy on both sides. They had to act as one entity.
From Silk to Silicon
Jeffrey E. Garten
There’s a Pablo Picasso quote we like to repeat at Stripe: “When art critics get together, they talk about Form and Structure and Meaning. When painters get together, they talk about where you can buy cheap turpentine.”7 Sometimes you want to read a book about Picasso’s life, and sometimes you just want to know where to buy the cheapest turpentine. Consider this the latter: an insider’s guide to management turpentine.
Scaling People
Claire Hughes Johnson
Eventually, Jensen Huang of Nvidia, began to refocus his talking points on the Nvidia-trademarked term Omniverse, which refers to their real-time collaboration and simulation platform. Microsoft always used the term “industrial metaverse” — which intuitively separates itself from Meta’s cartoonish VR game world — but now, it mostly just talks about its “Mesh” products or the integration of Office software into VR/MR devices such as the Quest or Vision Pro.
On Spatial Computing, Metaverse, the Terms Left Behind and Ideas Renewed — MatthewBall.co
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