
Der beste Spieler aller Zeiten. Auf dem Rasen nicht von dieser Welt.
Seltsam, jemanden zu verlieren, der dich ein ganzes Leben lang begleitet hat als Held des Spiels, das du deine gesamte Jugend selber bestritten hast.
Der beste Spieler aller Zeiten. Auf dem Rasen nicht von dieser Welt.
Seltsam, jemanden zu verlieren, der dich ein ganzes Leben lang begleitet hat als Held des Spiels, das du deine gesamte Jugend selber bestritten hast.
Respekt, Marcus Rashford.
Als Kind gehungert, heute Kämpfer für hungernde Kinder.
Make it work, then make it beautiful, then if you really, really have to, make it fast. 90% of the time, if you make it beautiful, it will already be fast. So really, just make it beautiful!
— Joe Armstrong
You don’t have to be an engineer to appreciate this story.
A toothpaste factory had a problem: Due to the way the production line was set up, sometimes empty boxes were shipped without the tube inside. People with experience in designing production lines will tell you how difficult it is to have everything happen with timings so precise that every single unit coming off of it is perfect 100% of the time. Small variations in the environment (which cannot be controlled in a cost-effective fashion) mean quality assurance checks must be smartly distributed across the production line so that customers all the way down to the supermarket won’t get frustrated and purchase another product instead.
Understanding how important that was, the CEO of the toothpaste factory gathered the top people in the company together. Since their own engineering department was already stretched too thin, they decided to hire an external engineering company to solve their empty boxes problem.
The project followed the usual process: budget and project sponsor allocated, RFP (request for proposal), third-parties selected, and six months (and $8 million) later a fantastic solution was delivered — on time, on budget, high quality and everyone in the project had a great time. The problem was solved by using high-tech precision scales that would sound a bell and flash lights whenever a toothpaste box would weigh less than it should. The line would stop, and someone had to walk over and yank the defective box off the line, then press another button to re-start the line.
A short time later, the CEO decided to have a look at the ROI (return on investment) of the project: amazing results! No empty boxes ever shipped out of the factory after the scales were put in place. There were very few customer complaints, and they were gaining market share. “That was some money well spent!” he said, before looking closely at the other statistics in the report.
The number of defects picked up by the scales was 0 after three weeks of production use. How could that be? It should have been picking up at least a dozen a day, so maybe there was something wrong with the report. He filed a bug against it, and after some investigation, the engineers indicated the statistics were indeed correct. The scales were NOT picking up any defects, because all boxes that got to that point in the conveyor belt were good.
Perplexed, the CEO traveled down to the factory and walked up to the part of the line where the precision scales were installed. A few feet before the scale, a $20 desk fan was blowing any empty boxes off the belt and into a bin. Puzzled, the CEO turned to one of the workers who stated, “Oh, that…One of the guys put it there ’cause he was tired of walking over every time the bell rang!”
$8 million vs $20 Hmmm! Money well spent?
Es handelt sich um eine urban legend, aber trotzdem immer schön, wenn der Büezer den hochbezahlten Berater zerstört.
So sah es aus. Das dazu passende Zitat Einsteins:
Wenn ein unordentlicher Schreibtisch einen unordentlichen Geist repräsentiert, was sagt dann ein leerer Schreibtisch über den Menschen aus, der ihn benutzt?
A Canadian pilot flew in the shape of a raised fist on Thursday to show support for George Floyd and the Black Lives Matter movement. Dimitri Neonakis flew on the almost two and a half hour flight path across Canada and posted images of the pattern on social media.
Die Präventionsmedizin kennt keine Helden. War sie erfolgreich, beklagen sich alle über zu rigorose Massnahmen. War sie nicht erfolgreich, wird den Verantwortlichen Inkompetenz vorgeworfen.
Müsste der Titel dieses Blogs lauten, denn geschrieben wird hier schon lange nicht mehr. Ich zitieren bloss noch Menschen.
Aber immerhin. Besser als nichts, ist man versucht zu sagen.
Obwohl. Schweigen wäre noch besser.
Noch so ein Knuth Zitat mit Tiefgang:
A person’s success in life is determined by having a high minimum, not a high maximum. If you can do something really well but there are other things at which you’re failing, the latter will hold you back. But if almost everything you do is up there, then you’ve got a good life. And so I try to learn how to get through things that others find unpleasant.