Articles
October 30, 2024
When the Blue Screen Went Global: The CrowdStrike Lesson
There is a moment that the IT world will not forget, and the moment was the summer's Friday: the software update that brought the world's computers down.
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October 15, 2024
Small Modular Reactors: Nuclear's Second Act
There is a technology that has been the future for twenty years, and in 2024 the future started arriving: the small modular reactor. The 2024 moment is the turning: the technology companies signing the deals, the regulators approving the designs.
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September 13, 2024
The Four-Day Week: From Experiment to Mainstream
There is an experiment that started as the curiosity and became the movement, and the movement is the four-day week. In 2024 the idea is the mainstream: the trials that reported the results, the companies that made the switch permanent.
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September 4, 2024
The Logistics of the Games: What the Olympics Teach About Operations
There is an event that just wrapped up in Paris, and the event was the ultimate operations challenge: the Olympic Games that brought the world to the City of Light.
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August 29, 2024
The Chip Wars: Export Controls and the Geopolitics of Semiconductors
There is a war that is not fought with the armies, and the war is the chip: the semiconductor that has become the strategic territory.
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August 14, 2024
The Red Sea Lesson: Supply Chains in a Fractured World
There is a strait that carries the world's trade, and in 2024 the strait became the world's headache. The Red Sea crisis is the supply chain story of the year, and the story is the lesson about the world the chains live in.
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July 12, 2024
The On-Device AI Revolution: Intelligence Without the Cloud
There is a shift happening in the hardware, and the shift is the intelligence's move. In 2024 the intelligence is moving onto the device: the laptop with the neural processor, the phone with the on-device model.
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July 3, 2024
The Battery Boom: Why Storage Became the Grid's Secret Weapon
There is a technology that is quietly reshaping the electricity grid, and the technology is the battery: the grid's secret weapon in the fight against the intermittency.
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June 27, 2024
The AI Skill Premium: What the New Salary Data Shows
There is a premium that the salary data is revealing, and the premium is the AI skill: the pay boost that the workers with the AI capabilities are commanding.
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June 12, 2024
Skills Over Degrees: The Credential Shift That Changed Hiring
There is a quiet revolution in the hiring process, and the revolution is the degree's demotion. The employers are dropping the degree requirements, and the skills-based hiring is going mainstream.
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