I work in logistics building a transportation management system. Our unsolvable question is not technical - how do you get trucking companies to use technology? It is more unsolvable than the 7 Bridges of Koningsberg.
You show them that they can make more money by using technology. Out of several thousand trucking companies, a few will try it. If it pays off for them, then some more will try it.
And, really, if it doesn't pay off for the few that try it, why should the rest use it?
Cybersecurity! I just started on Hack The Box. I am not sure if I want to go all the way for OSCP. Regardless, it is really fun and I've always wanted to learn how to "hack".
I wonder what the second order effects are of everyone wising up to DTC.
Casper is a mattress company, not a tech company. The same can be said for Warby, Away, Allbirds etc.
I think it is likely for the ad revenues of Facebook and Google to slow their growth in response to VC financed commodity companies throwing around ad dollars.
VC money will always be available to a startup that has identified a market that hasn't been disrupted yet. It doesn't matter if the business is just some ad copy and whitespace, if there's a good margin and hockey stick growth there will always be investors waiting for you to execute.
At no point in the past, and at no point in the future, will a VC be put off by the fact a business is just a thin, shiny new veneer over an old model. If there's profit to be had and a founder who can take it that is all VCs want.
This is a good thing. It's how markets work. If it ever became impossible to disrupt a market because VCs decided it was too boring the startup world would fall apart. No incumbent business should be allowed to rest. Innovation is everything, even when that "innovation" is just better marketing.
Pragmatic Programmer and Code Complete are usually mentioned as classic programmer text books. I own both and have probably read 10 pages between the 2 books.
I haven't read Code Complete but I did flip it open to a random page around halfway through the book, and was treated to a page-long explanation about the fact that conditions in loops aren't constantly being evaluated, but only once at the top of each loop.
I think it's reasonable to simply assume the entire book is bullshit after that.
To play devil's advocate, I am a junior dev in a relatively large US market and Rails is still very popular. I'm currently using it as the backend API for my side project. It's just simple and fun to code in.
Simply curious - where could I go to learn design thinking? Any online courses you recommend? Free would be nice, but I'm open to paying if it's worth it.
It seems the term "design thinking" has been hijacked by consultants. What I mean by it: being aware of how tools/artifacts drives people's actions/behaviors and changing the former to proactively make people's lives better. Sounds simple, but in practice today's world is obsessed with needs, wants and features, not the actual process of living with technology and other human artifacts.
Not sure exactly what type of "design thinking" you are looking to learn. In my experience, a lot of people think about design only as it applies to visual/UX. Design Thinking, on the other hand, is more a way to problem solve and understand the issues at hand (and of course, how to solve them).
One resource I recommend is IDEO.org...it's tailored more towards humanitarian type Design Thinking, but it might be a good place to look depending, of course, on your needs ;)
