Straightforward discussions on why often we disagree with the current hype, without filters or buzzwords.
The term "involution" has recently appeared more and more in China. At the core of the issue is China's manufacturing overcapacity issue, which has built over two decades of global trading with the West, and how it developed in a flood of cheap goods that benefit...
Tech journalists have started reviewing the first Humane "AI" Pins out of production, and as expected, they're a disaster—or, if you want to be nice about it, one of the most expensive proofs of concept in recent years. That raises the second question: should you...
Marc Andreessen is certainly famous for coining the notion that "software is eating the world." It was circa 2011, and since then, software has eaten the world. Meaning that every aspect of business and any corner of any market is now a) connected and b) dependent on only...
As noted in my newsletter this week, Amazon is phasing out its checkout-less grocery stores with "Just Walk Out" technology (I'm making this separate post about it for future reference...). The technology, which relied on cameras and sensors to track purchases, is being replaced due to...
There's been much discussion recently about why Apple finally canceled its Apple Car project. The media consensus seems to be that Apple will have to face a product with too thin margins. This seems quite weird to me. Or you would have to believe that this giant, led...
As we're witnessing in real-time, Microsoft and other GAFAMs are plucking every remotely interesting AI startup remotely interesting out of the market (either by acquiring them or having enough investment to control them); open innovation seems the best possible way of catching up with the fast-paced market turnaround....