Giancarlo Angulo's Blog
It’s not the industry or product you’re looking for.In my career, I thought I was looking for experience in digital marketing and a change of industry.What I figured out last Friday was that it was leadership I was looking for. Every day I was getting up excited to go to work. I couldn’t figure out why. It took a lot of reflection and discussion with mentors to figure out why.
Source: The Realization It Was Leadership You Were Chasing All Along.
Bataan Death March Series
3 Season
24 episodes
1 season per day of death March.
Huk Series
1 season per place
1-2 episodes per legendary Huk
Can’t be denied. A growing pit of doubt.
With the things turning out. What is the point of squat.
Katipunan
Ilustrado
Death March
Huk
Will expound later
“The greater the difficulty the more glory in surmounting it. Skillful pilots gain their reputation from storms and tempests.” — Epictetus
If you’re an American, when you donate your kidney — either to a loved one, as most donors do, or to a stranger, as I did — you pay nothing for the medical side of things. In the United States, Medicare has, since the Nixon administration, picked up the costs of dialysis (where you have a machine replace the normal functions of your kidneys) and transplantation for people with severe kidney disease. And because transplantation saves money relative to dialysis, Medicare is more than happy to pay both the don
Source: Kidney transplant: how Trump could encourage donations – Vox
Saving this as it seems important.
That is a new blog by Eric Lofgren, an Emergent Ventures recipient. Here is an excerpt from one post:The story was from 1938. It sounds astounding to modern ears. Congress did not earmark money for special projects. Pitcairn was a bit of a political entrepreneur by convincing his representative to get a project funded that funneled money back to his own district.
Back then, the Army and Navy were funded according to organization and object. Project earmarking only started becoming routine with the implementation of the program budget in 1949 (and really not until the rise of the PPBS in 1961).
I often say that the budget should be the most important aspect of defense reform, not the acquisition or requirements processes.
By the way, the French parliament doesn’t earmark defense funding. There’s actually quite a bit to learn from the French experience.Here is his post on cost disease in weapons acquisition, and more on that here: “It’s clear that defense acquisition costs are growing at least as fast, and probably much faster, than education and healthcare costs. Defense platform unit costs grow nominally from 7-11% per year. Doing some adjustments, DOD production costs probably grow twice the rate of inflation.”
Here is his general post on acquisition reform and the limits of decentralization, maybe the best introduction to his overall point of view.
Legendary investor and billionaire Warren Buffett has a tip for young people: Focus on learning how to write and speak clearly.
“The one easy way to become worth 50 percent more than you are now — at least — is to hone your communication skills — both written and verbal,” says Buffett in a video posted on LinkedIn on Monday.
The video was posted by Michael Hood, the co-founder of the Toronto based start-up Voiceflow, which enables users to design, build and launch skills for Amazon’s smart speaker, Alexa, without needing to know how to code.“If you can’t communicate, it’s like winking at a girl in the dark — nothing happens. You can have all the brainpower in the world, but you have to be able to transmit it,” Buffett continues.
“And the transmission is communication,” says Buffett, who is currently worth more than $86 billion, according to Forbes.
Source: Warren Buffett: How to increase your worth by 50 percent
“It wasn’t the best decision we could make,” said one of my old bosses, “but it was the most defensible.”
What she meant was that she wanted to choose option A but ended up choosing option B because it was the defensible default. She realized that if she chose option A and something went wrong, it would be hard to explain because it was outside of normal. On the other hand, if she chose option A and everything went right, she’d get virtually no upside. A good outcome was merely expected, but a bad outcome would have significant consequences for her. The decision she landed on wasn’t the one she would have made if she owned the entire company. Since she didn’t, she wanted to protect her downside. In asymmetrical organizations, defensive decisions like this one protect the person making the decision.
Source: Defensive Decision Making: What IS Best v. What LOOKS Best
And that fact is the thing I can’t quite get past. That a decision I made for a list I put on the internet has impacted a family business and forever altered its future. That I have changed family dynamics and relationships. And it could very easily happen again.
I’ve been asking myself what the other side of this looks like. How do I do this better? Is there a way to celebrate a place without the possibility of destroying it? Or is this just what we are now — a horde with a checklist and a camera phone, intent on self-producing the destruction of anything left that feels real, one Instagram story at a time?
Source: Will Stanich’s Ever Reopen? Why America’s Best Burger Spot Closed Down – Thrillist