James Coombes

CEO Raft

[James Coombes @thisjamesc]

@santoshsankar @DerrekLi @madelyn__o @jd @ThisIsDynamo @Raft_ai started with a similar coffee with @santoshsankar not too far from Shoreditch Grind. Highly recommend for anyone in sc tech

[James Coombes @thisjamesc]

@seanlinehan @typesfast Enjoyed reading this thread. Agree with the above. Every forwarder is going to have to have a plan for how to bring AI into their org - via their TMS or otherwise - because clearly the way we do things now is not going to be the way things are done in the (near) future.

[James Coombes @thisjamesc]

@jd @Raft_ai @nisargatman @ThisIsDynamo Thanks! Wouldn’t be here without @ThisIsDynamo

[James Coombes @thisjamesc]

@PaulPage @cmroberson06 I’d add something else: actions. Visibility needs to be actionable for all operational processes within a shipment lifecycle. Ie what do I do when my container is at X.

[James Coombes @thisjamesc]

@santoshsankar Totally uncool. Nothing to see here

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@LogTechEric Must be something in the peroxide

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The future is proteins-on-demand.

[Urs Hölzle @uhoelzle]

mRNA vaccines are awesome. But vaccines based on artificial proteins might be even better.

Talk about timing: “At my 2019 Ph.D. defense, I began by saying, ‘I'm about to tell you why this family of viruses has could cause a pandemic"...

https://t.co/KnAdwSwvkd

[James Coombes @thisjamesc]

We are on the cusp of a completely new way of working that is more than just home vs office.

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@ZainAsher Congrats Zain!

[James Coombes @thisjamesc]

@m2jr @ThisIsDynamo @jd @santoshsankar

[James Coombes @thisjamesc]

In topics you'd never thought would overlap with your job. @PapaRoach, Customs & Brexit.

[Raft - The AI workforce for supply chain @Raft_ai]

#Brexit brought to life, this caught our attention when shared by our Tech Lead internally. 👀 The #Brexitcustoms struggles are real!! @paparoach using twitter as a Last Resort😉

#customspaperwork #paparoachandpaperwork #realpeopleproblems #technologyborderneeded #smoothertrade

[James Coombes @thisjamesc]

Fav weird productivity hack when editing text and I overwrite something I want to keep. Ctrl-zzz, copy, ctrl-yyy, paste. Feels like I’m defying the laws of word processing. Just me? Ok.

[James Coombes @thisjamesc]

50 years of email! There are better ways of working. Communication for communication’s sake isn’t good enough anymore. https://t.co/lbwH7HeB4g

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Interesting summary https://t.co/jX06WYMHtJ

[James Coombes @thisjamesc]

This is a theme we care about strongly at https://t.co/z4zyETAGtp. Tools like email and slack are great, but they don’t actually help you do the work.

[GREG ISENBERG @gregisenberg]

Gratefulness: makes it hard for you to be fearful

[James Coombes @thisjamesc]

@cgledhill Could you use drones to recharge batteries from wherever? Or is there a weight issue? (If so swarms?) IMO big barrier to adoption in large urban areas is no-one has a front drive or even a regular parking spot.

[James Coombes @thisjamesc]

This tweet both has and hasn’t aged well

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Donald Trump has saved #twitter

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Qu. to my biochem friends: can you PCR an effective mRNA vaccine remotely (eg in a pharmacy), kind of like 3D-Printing but for vaccines? Seems like it would solve a lot of future vaccine logistics issues.

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TNT putting a £ figure on the operational headache of brexit paperwork: £4.31/shipment https://t.co/Ncu9Zf51Yd