In 2007, Steve Jobs jumped up on stage to unveil something that people in the 1980s thought was utterly impossible. He was dressed in his iconic turtle neck, with dad-style sneakers and baggy jeans. His pale pallor was a stark contrast to the black curtain at the back of the stage. Soon he was dwarfedContinue reading “Smarticles Business: Payroll Evolution, not Revolution”
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The Pareto Distribution
Read Time: 3 mins For the most part, there’s nothing wrong with being average. Expectations are reasonable, you are liked by some, not by others. The paparazzi take a limited interest in who you snog and what colour your socks are. Being average typically means you fall somewhere towards the middle of what mathematicians callContinue reading “The Pareto Distribution”
How normal is new?
Read time: 8 mins Imagine you are WordPress. WordPress has 148 million unique visitors per month. This is only slightly fewer than Twitter. They run websites for some of the largest players in the world; companies such as Disney, Playstation and Microsoft. And yet they employ only 1170 staff globally. Those staff iterate 1000 deploymentsContinue reading “How normal is new?”
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