“The suggestion last week that Apple may be discussing the acquisition of the Formula One group has led to a lot of interest and a lot of opinion. Traditional technology people argue it would never happen…”

Thoughts about Apple and F1 | joeblogsf1

I’m quite excited by this. F1 is the perfect two (three and four) screen sport. The problem with F1 is that there is so much happening that it can’t be shown on a single screen.

This could be THE application to justify an Apple TV. Designing the interface could be a nightmare but it really could change TV forever.

This is without the issue of making the sport interesting again!

“After debuting in the U.S. earlier this month, Pokemon Go launched in Japan on Friday and became available in Hong Kong on Monday.

The correction comes after Pokemon Go’s release almost doubled Nintendo’s stock through Friday’s close, adding $17.6 billion in market capitalization. Nintendo is a shareholder in the game’s developer Niantic Inc. and Pokemon Co., but has an “effective economic stake” of just 13 percent in the app, according to an estimate by Macquarie Securities analyst David Gibson.”

Nintendo Slumps By Most Since 1990 on Dashed Pokemon Go Hopes – Bloomberg

This is madness. Nintendo has spent years looking for a future. Trying to find a new profit stream, they’ve just found it. The 13% is for Pokemon Go, not all the other games that can reuse the same principles. 

Nintendo has just discovered what it’s future looks like but the markets are punishing them because they needed a guide to help them!

“The breakthrough seems to have come from Mochizuki explaining his theory in person. He refuses to travel abroad, only speaking via Skype at the Oxford meeting, which had made it harder for mathematicians outside Japan to get to grips with his work.”

Mathematicians finally starting to understand epic ABC proof | New Scientist

It’s interesting that Skype is mentioned without explanation but it also shows the limitations of the technology without training. We still have progress to make.

“That is why Tesla engineering has transitioned to focus heavily on designing the machine that makes the machine — turning the factory itself into a product.”

Master Plan, Part Deux
https://www.tesla.com/blog/master-plan-part-deux

This is something that the Toyota has always understood. TPS is the Toyota Production System and is the real secret of the company. The most important thing to Toyota is the factories.

Telsa have learnt this lesson faster than most.

In services organizations we forget this. There has been a history of under investment, hiding the benefits of automation and not implementing the basics of good organisation and team management. Where are the checklists, morning meetings and Problem Management?

This now has to change as we move to the Cloud, delivery on a massive scale and moving to the on-demand future.

Is this the first beautiful 3D printer?

Pollen AM – the advanced 3d printer

I’m amazed how quickly we got from 3D printers looking like lego kits to this. It’s like meeting the Mercedes of printing!

This is bit of a cheat because there have been 8 versions of the iPhone but it still makes you think a bit…

“Car model: VW Beetle 21.5 million

Car brand: Toyota Corolla 43 million

Music Album: Thriller 70 million

Vehicle: Honda Super Cub 87 million

Book Title: Lord of the Rings 150 million

Toy: Rubik’s Cube 350 million

Game console: Playstation 382 million

Book series: Harry Potter Series 450 million

Mobile Phone: iPhone 1 billion”

The most popular product of all time | Asymco

I spend hundreds of hours each year running, working, commuting and “getting stuff done” with podcasts. I thought that this was something new, it isn’t…

“Thus arose the tradition of lectors, who sat perched on an elevated platform in the cigar factory, reading to the workers. It started in Cuba and was brought to the United States more particularly to Key West in 1865 when thousands of Cuban cigar workers emigrated to Florida to escape Spanish oppression.”

Tobacco factory Lectors, 1910

A lot of what happens on the internet is criticised as having no impact and being just plain narcissism. Well…

“Dismissed by some at the time as “slacktivism” – an exercise that appears to do good while achieving very little – the ice bucket challenge raised more than $115m (£88m) for motor neurone disease in a single month. Now, scientists funded with the proceeds have discovered a gene variant associated with the condition.”

How the ice bucket challenge led to an ALS research breakthrough

Increasingly businesses are being built on untested technologies. In some cases there are technologies being implemented that hold the tag line beta although people are paying for them.

To be a success in these new domains you need experience, and quickly. One way to gain experience is to pool the data, share the experience across the industry. We’ve seen this with Open Source in the past.

Interestingly we’re now seeing engineering companies publish Root Cause Analyses (RCAs) in the public domain. Tesla are doing it as part of a media battle battle. Others for other unstated reasons, like Koenigsegg…

A Koenigsegg One:1 endured a severe crash at the Nürburgring Circuit in Germany last Monday, 18th July.

Koenigsegg Analysis Of Nurburgring Accident – Koenigsegg | Koenigsegg

A quick tip for the none engineers: If your teams don’t produce RCAs this well, they’re not working hard enough!

A Barrio Norte, une ville de Buenos Aires, on peut trouver un sublime repère pour lecteurs appelé El Ateneo Grand Splendid. Cette librairie a été construite

100-Year-Old Theatre Turned into a Magnificent Bookstore – Fubiz Media