Southwest Airlines Co., or simply Southwest, is a major airline in the United States that formerly[citation needed] operated on a low-cost carrier model. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southwest_Airlines (more)

Cory Doctorow: The learned helplessness of Pete Buttigieg. Southwest Airlines's growth strategy has seen the airlines add more planes and routes without a comparable investment in back-end systems, including crew scheduling systems. SWA's unions have spent years warning the public that their employer's IT Infrastructure was one crisis away from total collapse. (more)

John Cutler TBM 229: Winnable and Unwinnable Games (Part 1). Imagine a framework or a way of working as a game (more)

The founder, managing director and principal tutor of Avancier Ltd.: "Enterprise, Solution and Software Architecture" https://grahamberrisford.com/ (more)

Greetings and congratulations to Kenyon's graduating class of 2005. There are these two young fish swimming along and they happen to meet an older fish swimming the other way, who nods at them and says "Morning, boys. How's the water?" And the two young fish swim on for a bit, and then eventually one of them looks over at the other and goes "What the hell is water?" David Foster Wallace commencement speech, This is Water. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/This_Is_Water

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Deming talk: Does anybody give a hoot about profit? On the afternoon of 11 July 1990, Dr W Edwards Deming gave a short presentation to some 25 executives from major European companies. This article provides an edited transcript of that presentation and the subsequent Question and Response Session. The presentation was structured around Dr Deming’s paper “A System of Profound Knowledge” (May 1990). (more)

Benchmarking is the practice of comparing business processes and performance metrics to industry bests and best practices from other companies. Dimensions typically measured are quality, time and cost... An early example of benchmarking is the Auerbach Corporation's Standard EDP Reports, which were first developed in 1962. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benchmarking

Douglas MacArthur (26 January 1880 – 5 April 1964) was an American general who served as a top commander during World War II and the Korean War, achieving the rank of General of the Army. He served with distinction in World War I; as chief of staff of the United States Army from 1930 to 1935; as Supreme Commander, Southwest Pacific Area, from 1942 to 1945 during WWII; as Supreme Commander for the Allied Powers overseeing the occupation of Japan from 1945 to 1951; and as head of the United Nations Command in the Korean War from 1950 to 1951. MacArthur was nominated for the Medal of Honor three times, and awarded it for his WWII service in the Philippines. He is one of only five people to hold the rank of General of the Army, and the only person to hold the rank of Field Marshal in the Philippine Army. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Douglas_MacArthur (more)

Peter Drucker on The Purpose and Objectives of a Business, from The Essential Drucker. (more)

Russell Ackoff on the Philosophy of W Edwards Deming. Vs the reality of A corporation says that its principle value is maximizing shareholder value. That’s non-sense. If that were the case executives wouldn’t fly around on private jets and have Philippine mahogany lined offices and the rest of it. The principal function to those executives is to provide those executives with the quality of work life that they like. And profit is merely a means which guarantees their ability to do it.

Steve Denning: Why The Pandemic Of Maximizing Shareholder Value Is Still Raging. The last 90 years have seen several missteps on corporate purpose. From the 1930s to the 1970s, corporate managers embraced “stakeholder capitalism.” (See Figure 1.3 above). Executives were expected to optimize among all the stakeholders—customers, staff and partners, shareholders, and society as a whole. The result? Not surprisingly, we saw many “garbage can organizations” emerge. (more)

Chris Dixon: The Crypto Price-Innovation Cycle. People who’ve been in crypto for a long time view the space as evolving in cycles, alternating between periods of high activity and “crypto winters.” There have been three cycles so far. The first peaked in 2011, the second in 2013, and the third in 2017 (more)

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getting "above the bar" of good enough "quality" of web design by leaning on Bootstrap. (Designers call me "Bootstrap Bill"... then spit.) (Alas, 80% of design/er/s don't reach the BootstrapBar.)

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Ray Dalio describes Credit Crisis 2008 as a "D-Process". But now you can ask yourself, OK, when was the last time bank stocks went down so much? When was the last time the balance sheet of the Federal Reserve, or any central bank, exploded like it has? When was the last time interest rates went to zero, essentially, making monetary policy as we know it ineffective? When was the last time we had Deflation? The answers to those questions all point to times other than the U.S. post-WorldWarII experience. This was the dynamic that occurred in Japan in the '90s, that occurred in Latin America in the '80s, and that occurred in the Great Depression in the '30s... Then begins the reversal process, and that becomes self-reinforcing, too. In the simplest sense, the country reaches the point when it needs a Debt Restructuring... This has happened in Latin America regularly. Emerging countries default, and then restructure. It is an essential process to get them economically healthy. We will go through a giant debt-restructuring, because we either have to bring debt-service payments down so they are low relative to incomes - the cash flows that are being produced to service them - or we are going to have to raise incomes by printing a lot of money. It isn't complicated. It is the same as all bankruptcies, but when it happens pervasively to a country, and the country has a lot of Foreign Debt denominated in its own currency, it is preferable to print money and devalue... What the Federal Reserve has done and what the Treasury has done, by and large, is to take an existing debt and say they will own it or lend against it. But they haven't said they are going to write down the debt and cut debt payments each month. There has been little in the way of debt relief yet. Very, very few actual mortgages have been restructured. Very little corporate debt has been restructured... Only when those debts are actually written down will we get to the point where we will have credit growth. There is a Mortgage Debt piece that will need to be restructured. There is a giant financial-sector piece - banks and Investment Bank-s and whatever is left of the financial sector - that will need to be restructured. There is a Corporate Debt piece that will need to be restructured, and then there is a commercial-RealEstate piece that will need to be restructured. (more)

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