Martin Spindler 🛰

Senior Advisor | Asymmetric Competition, Unfair Advantages, Patterns Analysis | Systems are my favourite toys

[Martin Spindler 🛰 @mjays]

@azeem Marginal cost under economies of scale? Why wouldn’t capital cost follow one of the most fundamental laws of econ?

[Martin Spindler 🛰 @mjays]

@eaonp haven’t done the full table, but just a quick check: per capita, Germany produces about 4x as much as China.

[Martin Spindler 🛰 @mjays]

@GergelyOrosz You’re thinking in terms of organizations. But McKinsey and other consultancies never get brought in by organizations, but always individuals.

[Martin Spindler 🛰 @mjays]

“Open Secret”.

It’s about as secret as those Cables after Assange.

A lot of consulting projects only are put together because someone, somewhere needs a liability sponge for his (let’s be honest here: his) career to advance.

[Gergely Orosz @GergelyOrosz]

I talked to a few ex-McKinsey folks after our response with @KentBeck on McKinsey’s software dev claims got traction.

An open secret in these groups:

Customers often pay $$$ to McKinsey so McKinsey “formalizes” what they already want to do, but now they can point to McKinsey.

[Martin Spindler 🛰 @mjays]

@genmon Did TfL get sued for negligence lately? Sounds like a tort liability mitigation strategy.

[The Intel Crab @IntelCrab]

the pizza index is never wrong

[Martin Spindler 🛰 @mjays]

@sGianella And just casually showing off the customised 58, which must be a treat. ;)

[Alex Cohen @anothercohen]

My favorite legal thing that feels illegal is using the Calendly links from salespeople who email me nonstop and booking them calls with each other

[Nick Almond @DrNickA]

The real business model of OpenAI is getting everyone to divulge their innermost secrets and business plans to the model.

[Troy Hunt @troyhunt]

We're very happy to support Germany's CERTBund by enabling them to search all German government domains free and on demand via @haveibeenpwned. This now makes the 35th national government to take up the service https://t.co/b9cDAqlGwJ

[Michael Weiss @michaeldweiss]

NEW: Jan Marsalek, the fugitive COO of disgraced company Wirecard, wasn't just behind Germany's biggest financial fraud in history. @InsiderEng can now reveal he was also a GRU agent for a decade. https://t.co/zYqlDL3YoW

[Jan Rosenow @janrosenow]

Two things we keep getting consistently wrong:

1⃣ Vastly overestimating future coal demand

2⃣ Massively underestimating future generation of solar PV

Love these graphics from @rethink_x

[Martin Spindler 🛰 @mjays]

The *General Public* was never the target audience of publications like this.

[samim @samim]

While the power of computers has dramatically increased the past 40 years, the general public's uses for computers has dramatically decreased in ambition and creativity.

[Martin Spindler 🛰 @mjays]

Data retention, tamperproof from even in-house engineers, is the value add.

[Gergely Orosz @GergelyOrosz]

I’m not debating Slack has far more features, needs less maintenance (none for infra), checks important compliance boxes etc.

Them - and other SaaS solutions with self-hosted alternatives - might need to get better at making it clear what additional stuff you get vs self-hosting

[Martin Spindler 🛰 @mjays]

@inthecompanyof Not sure. It seems, as it always does, to be a bit more complicated. Apparently, the young-uns love LinkedIn https://t.co/A2ahuBvJsN

[Martin Spindler 🛰 @mjays]

It’s still baffling to me how underutilized LinkedIn data is, given how rich the graph should be. But instead you get a feed of corporate influencers instead of tools to query your network.

[Martin Spindler 🛰 @mjays]

@davidgsIoT Yeah, I remember when my team tried to use some of it even 5 years ago. They were *not* happy about it.

And as I understand the locks on scraping have gone up precariously as well.

[Martin Spindler 🛰 @mjays]

@inthecompanyof which really is a shame. It could be a really interesting tool to -ahem- facilitate better connections in business, but instead has turned into the same social media dynamics as every other platform.

[Martin Spindler 🛰 @mjays]

@davidgsIoT I’m surprised it’s not sunsetted yet, to be honest.

[Martin Spindler 🛰 @mjays]

Instead, my home feed is cluttered with 25% ads (crazy!) and corporate influencers

[Martin Spindler 🛰 @mjays]

I’m currently looking at a company with 1.5k employees. About 200 are 2nd degree connections. But there is no way to find the most robust intermediaries to senior people at this firm.

With a graph database on the backend, this should be a no-brainer, LI doesn’t expose it.