Long rant: Almost every CEO misinterprets LEAN / Theory of Constraints philosophy. The goal is to track ypur product through /dev/production/manufacturing etc and only focus on improving flow and remove hinderences. By tracking that as focus and not $ you improve the system and product, and the savings of waste take care of the $. in the theory is a maxim of (manufacturing version) a workpiece product should never wait on a machine. This means a piece ready for work to be done should be able to move to next workstation and have an open resource ready, if that means two machines, with one idle typically, that is fine, since it means every stage can move forward to next and piece is accommodated. Some how almost every CEO interprets this to mean we buy one machine and schedule it for 100% uptime so it doesn’t wait empty. (Their lease or purchase accounting even encourages this so they can show a lower cost per hour, even though that machine is a sunk cost you have to pay for regardless of use %) This mindset forces waste and bottle necks to various other parts of system and creates inefficiencies. When they see failures they start messing elswhere and then firing staff to cut labour overhead when they are focuse on profit, not improvement.

Sugar in everything

More recently the Canadian bus sysrems have added contactless card payment, so you can use your debit or visa/MC or a phone or watch device linked to your account, as payment

I hope sonething better comes along because google ruined their search engine a decade ago. stract.com is probabky the closest to what google used to be.

As for chatgpt, it is not an index. It cannot refer you back to infornation it was trained on because it doesn’t build a massive indexed internet database.

It has some method of probable relations and conglomerarion of input. It is why it “hallucinates” information output, because it doesn’t “know” what is wrong or right info, it just fetches data based on probabilities of connections.

It is good at suggesting new music or movies based on your list of media you like, but it is terrible with actual factual info

Starts with NO wildlife will kill you, describes all the ones that can ;)

It is like Canada, we have Bears, Wolves, Moose and Polar Bears, etc.

Stay out of their way and you will be fine, they aren’t actively scouting homes to kill people.

At the beginning of COVID a coworker told me all you had to do was go outsIde every morning and breathe deep and blow the virus out.

People actually believe facebook nonsense

You can buy a fare card. You preload some cash, and tap to pay. It deducts the trip. No expiry on the card, so you don’t have to worry about monthly or yearly pass fees.

You missed a group, those that accept it and realize death is the final stage of life and have a positive outlook.

My Cancer doctor said I was to happy for having a Cancer diagnosis. And another person I met at the hospital was also jovial. I asked him how he was positive, to see why we had a different outlook than those in dispair. He said “I have lived a good life, every day I wake up is a just a bonus day, why mope when it coyld be your last, enjoy it”

There was some study of heartbreak syndrome, apparently when a spouse dies the stress and emotions can mess with hormones/adreniline, etc and cause issues with the connective tissues in the heart (weaken or harden, I forget) and impedes the heart sonetimes till it stops working , so died of " broken heart " is a real thing

There was some study of heartbreak syndrome, apparently when a spouse dies the stress and emotions can mess with hormones/adreniline, etc and cause issues with the connective tissues in the heart (weaken or harden, I forget) and impedes the heart sonetimes till it stops working , so died of " broken heart " is a real thing