How CrowdStrike Stopped Everything
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How CrowdStrike Stopped Everything
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#2Any new information available here? Sorry couldn't find anything new than what world knows so far.
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> When do we get rid of the traditional finance mental models from history like we are religious mental models from history?
Customers need to stop buying from companies that are publicly listed. Publicly listed companies are designed for the next quarter - cutting corner is the name of the game.
Also see: Boeing, GE, IBM, and recently Meta products that are basically unusable.
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I don't really think it's possible to get rid of the finance mental models. Maybe momentarily at the best -- and that's why excellent engineers leave when "the company becomes too big". Everyone living in the real world has to think about his/her own financials and companies are obliged to do that too.
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I don't really think it's possible to get rid of the finance mental models. Maybe momentarily at the best -- and that's why excellent engineers leave when "the company becomes too big". Everyone living in the real world has to think about his/her own financials and companies are obliged to do that too.
but there's the principal-agent problem (https://www.investopedia.com/terms/p/principal-agent-problem...) laying in there somewhere.
The people making financial decisions are incentivized to minimize the financial cost (or maximize the gains), but only for some time period that's shorter than the life-time of the company, which, as far as the owners/shareholders are concerned, should be infinite.
So this has an inherent bias against long term decisions that would've been better, but makes short term look bad, in favour of better short term decisions. Then the agent just leaves for greener pasture after their "short term" is over.
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> When do we get rid of the traditional finance mental models from history like we are religious mental models from history? Customers need to stop buying from companies that are publicly listed. Publicly listed companies are designed for the next quarter - cutting corner is the name of the game. Also see: Boeing, GE, IBM, and recently Meta products that are basically unusable.
That’s far too reductive a solution. Too single variable.
“Boeing” is a made up idea. Engineering an aircraft is not.
Make HR a government agency, to remove redundancy and extract all gains from a rich minority who aren’t owed the allegiance of 100s of millions and billions across the globe.
American Civic Life: The Story is not one where a handful did all the work, are worth all the prestige. Any one of them dies tonight we all have to move on. This system is so “War is peace.” And plenty of educated geniuses are in on it. If they can’t cope with actual science driven rational take on their value to humanity then more war less peace is what they’ll get. Humans are not philosophy driven they’re biology driven and too many are having their biology strained to the point of snapping
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> When do we get rid of the traditional finance mental models from history like we are religious mental models from history? Customers need to stop buying from companies that are publicly listed. Publicly listed companies are designed for the next quarter - cutting corner is the name of the game. Also see: Boeing, GE, IBM, and recently Meta products that are basically unusable.
> Customers need to stop buying from companies that are publicly listed
This is not going to happen. It’s much easier for a smaller group to coordinate than a larger group. It’s the same reason democracy is so easily exploitable. “Just vote them out” and yet the US has been involved in wars for the entirety of many of our lives.
Fixing our culture and installing elites that uphold it is the only answer. Not that those are easy things to do. Religion was how this was done in the past (and is done in other areas).
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#10I know people many suffered with this and in some cases the suffering was real. For most people it was just an inconvenience.
And I am a bit ashamed to say, the panic from users users who could not get to Office 365 or their Windows PC cannot boot still brings a bit of a smile to my face. I think there is a German word for this :)
A relative worked from my house for those days because their internet was also broken. We worked for 2 different companies, me on a Linux Workstation, him on Windows 11 spending time with his help desk with me "translating".
One lesson learned, the Help Desk people should be trained to avoid Tech Words when dealing with people who's workflow is just Email and Excel. Both the Help Desk and my relative had nothing but a high level of frustration dealing with each other.