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Why the AI Revolution Is Really an Energy Revolution Imagine a metal box about the size of a carry-on suitcase. Inside, processors perform trillions of calculations every second—powering artificial intelligence, discovering new drugs, designing aircraft, optimizing supply chains, and answering millions of questions. That same box also produces roughly as much continuous heat as a More
Pete Wilson and the Republicans won the 1994 elections on the backs of Hispanic immigrants, and turned California from a Republican-leaning state into a Democratic stronghold. And now Trump is about to do the same nationally. How can I say this? In 1994, California voters approved Proposition 187 by a decisive 59–41% margin. The measure More
My dad may be the last person alive to have seen the first atomic bomb. Born fatherless in 1929, he spent the first years of his life with no running water, electricity or indoor toilets in a small New Mexican town, acted as a seeing-eyed guide to his blind uncle, was a bootlegger, altar boy, More
Today, poor packaging practices result in the average box being 20-40+% bigger than required. Adopting existing technologies and packaging best practices could avoid over a billion tons of emissions over the next decade, and potentially much, much more, while reducing supply chain snarls at sea, in ports, in the skies and roadways by reducing the More
So my youngest daughter said, “Dad, you always talk about bonding with us, so let’s bond. I’ll paint your nails, unless you don’t really want to spend quality time with me.” 😳 Now what self respecting dad is going to say no to that, so five minutes later I had pink toenails and bonding time More
© 2021 Kevin Mireles It’s time to add socially responsible to the current product-development trifecta of desirable, feasible and viable. It’s no longer enough to focus on building products that are desirable for customers, feasible to build, and viable for our organizations. We need products that are socially responsible as well. In a world facing More
Today, when we discuss personalization most people tend to think of it from a Netflix or Facebook perspective, where the content itself is not personalized, but instead an algorithm recommends content to view. The much, much bigger opportunity is to provide personalized content that provides insights targeted to our users’ specific situation and needs, e.g. More
When is it wrong to focus on the 20% of the use cases that meet the needs of 80% of your customers? When your goal is to develop a Minimum Viable Replacement, i.e. retire and migrate all of your customers off an existing system. Unlike in the scenario of an MVP, where your goal is More
If luck is when preparation meets opportunity, what’s the best way to improve your luck, i.e. overall odds of success? Unless you are in a situation where you have a less than 1% probability of success on a per attempt basis, then focus on increasing your number of opportunities/attempts. As the chart shows for binary More
Originally Featured in Mind the Product Are you engaged in a digital transformation initiative, working to retire systems as part of a merger and integration project, or sunsetting a legacy product? If so, then take a moment to learn about a new concept, the Minimum Viable Replacement before you potentially waste thousands of hours and More