Nearly every company that’s trying to deploy artificial intelligence runs into the same problem: it’s hard to integrate the tech into everyday operations. Industrial heavyweight Caterpillar has spent decades dealing with a version of that problem in the physical world, and now it’s using its experience to deploy AI. Caterpillar’s push into the autonomous space
Joseph Fink is the cocreator and cowriter of Welcome to Night Vale, arguably the most important fiction podcast ever. He’s also the creator of the noir podcast Unlicensed and Alice Isn’t Dead, which takes some of the conspiratorial cosmic horror of Night Vale and turns it into fodder for a more serious series about relationships,
This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Jason Stacy, author of “The Pressure Code: How Elite Performers Align their Energy, Emotions, and Environment.” It has been edited for length and clarity. My dad died in my arms when I was 11. He had been in a motorcycle accident and was home, recovering. I
Long before becoming a Hollywood mainstay with a market cap of over $315 billion, Netflix was struggling to stay afloat. After the dotcom bust, the then DVD rental company was forced to make its first major round of layoffs in 2001, cutting roughly one-third of its workforce. For Netflix cofounder Reed Hastings, the experience drove
The next time you face adversity in your career—whether it’s a missed promotion, a difficult boss, or a deal that falls through—United Airlines CEO Scott Kirby has a simple but effective mantra: “No excuses.” “Once you learn that, it’s just so transformative to everything in life because then you pivot from feeling bad for yourself,
Not all of the lessons in the Walker Deibel playbook fit between its covers. One of the first bolt-on acquisitions Lucas Philips tried to close was a tiny shop in rural Oregon — a guy who had spent decades fabricating custom interiors for Porsches. Philips flew to Portland, grabbed a brand-new convertible Mustang on a
