“What is happening with cloud computing at large is to think about what the total spend in technology today is, it’s around 5% of GDP. On a secular basis, I think it’s going to be 10% which is going to double in the next 10 years. And that’s because every industry, whether it’s in retail, whether it’s in healthcare, whether it’s in manufacturing, they’re all being transformed by digital technology and this technology stack we have and the platform approach Microsoft has, means we will be able to participate in that 10% on the doubling of tech spend, but more importantly, really helping the global economy grow because of digital technology. And that’s what I think is the way to think about our opportunity.” Microsoft CEO
Sometimes it is about thinking about the big picture runway. Microsoft (MSFT) have a long one in front of them.
Charts shows the distribution of countries by various statistics.
Interesting to see who is top and bottom – try guess before you look.
The categories are – Mortality rate of children under the age of 5, life expectancy, mean years of schooling, expected years of schooling, average income.
Great post showing how air pollution is detrimental to intelligence.
Chess players make more mistakes on polluted days: “We find that an increase of 10 µg/m³ raises the probability of making an error by 1.5 percentage points, and increases the magnitude of the errors by 9.4%.
Interesting article about the “cashmere king”, who, over 40 years, built the business that bears his name from nothing.
His company doesn’t allow any emails after 17:30 among many other interesting ideas about how a business should be run.
Those who come to me and say, “You know, I work 15 hours a day,” I say, “I am not interested.” I am interested in the quality of working hours, not the quantity. The brain of the human being. Do you think that during the first five hours of the day you are the same as you are in the last five hours? No way. You’re tired, and if you’re tired, you stop listening, and the decisions you make are risky.
