I finally did what I had planned for a long time, look for a way to securely exchange email. For business email at least, S/MIME is preferred.
I just got a free certificate from Actalis. No problems installing it on Thunderbird. Let’s see how it goes.
It’s valid for a year, which is great for a free S/MIME certificate.
Die Gewerkschaft der Lockführer (GDL) streikt schon wieder, diesmal für fünf Tage. Ich habe absolut kein Verständnis für dieses Verhalten.
Ich kann ja verstehen, dass die Bahnmitarbeiter wegen Bonuszahlungen an das Management aufgebracht waren. Aber zum einen hat der Bahn-Vorstand auf Boni verzichtet, zum anderen ist das eine armselige Argumentation.
Liebe GDL: Ihr solltet Euch schämen!
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Quote from Radical Candor
The questions I get asked next are clustered around each of these three areas of responsibility that managers do have: guidance, team-building, and results.
Ein frühphasiges Venture-Capital-Investment muss das Potential für eine Rendite von mehr als 40% p.a.(!) mitbringen, sonst darf ein Venture Capitalist auf Basis der hier geschilderten Überlegungen nicht investieren.
So waren die durch den DAX repräsentierten 30 wertvollsten Unternehmen Deutschlands im Jahr 2013 zumindest noch mehr wert als die fünf größten US-Tech-Unternehmen, während heute allein Apple und Alphabet mehr wert sind als der gesamte DAX 30.
Aus dem Video ab 15:05: Investition in Automotive in 7 Jahren (2011 – 2018)
Great lecture by Peter Thiel: Competition is for Losers [How to Start a Startup Series]
Autogrow.co is a crazy concept: It’s like a producticed service, but excessively automated and tailored to a niche. Very impressive.
Quote from The Technology Fallacy (Management on the Cutting Edge):
This need to continually pivot to the next possible career wave also has another implication—the need and/or the ability for employees to chart their own course of career exploration with passion. By passion, we don’t necessarily mean an overriding and long-term desire for a specific goal. Instead, we envision it as the opportunity to scan the environment and find the point at which personal interest and market opportunity are maximized. The American writer Frederick Buechner describes this as one’s calling, where the world’s deep need and the individual’s deep joy meet. The World Economic Forum describes this intersection in terms of the Japanese concept of ikigai—the junction at which what you love, what you are good at, what you can be paid for, and what the world needs all come together. We think these successive career waves can provide greater opportunities for employees to achieve ikigai, pursuing new avenues as their passions change and the disrupted world creates new opportunities to do so.
Tom Davenport and Julia Kirby describe several different ways in which employees can pivot in their career path in response to digital disruption:
Read the book to find out what this means.