by John Macdonald | Aug 13, 2024 | The250
The benevolent monopoly can make life easier and better for customers. That’s why they’re benevolent. Bell Telephone, Standard Oil, and Microsoft all were benevolent monopolies. The efficiencies of their monopolies were passed on to customers in the form...
by John Macdonald | Aug 12, 2024 | The250
Boeing has pedigree. SpaceX is the young upstart. Boeing is slow and steady — do it right the first time. SpaceX fails fast and fixes it later. Boeing conjures feelings of pride, trust, and safety. SpaceX’s CEO pisses off the...
by John Macdonald | Aug 11, 2024 | The250
James Hetfield said that when he found Lars, he had finally found the other person who was just as committed as he was to making it work. Everybody else was just f’n around. That’s who he was looking for. Someone else who was committed. He knew this was...
by John Macdonald | Aug 10, 2024 | The250
More. Better. Faster. Cheaper. Every software engineer will have an army of coding interns who rarely get it wrong. Therefore, every software engineer will be an architect, chief engineer, and engineering manager. You may think this means less software engineers,...
by John Macdonald | Aug 9, 2024 | The250
Anybody who can read a map can lead when you’re on the perfectly mapped grid of the city streets. “We want to go over there. To get there, we walk two blocks north and then 5 blocks east.” But what about when you’re off the grid? If your...
