A two-person consultancy and a multimillion-dollar SaaS company run on the same four-layer ladder. Palantir calls the jump between them the path from gravel road to paved highway — and Roman military engineers were running the exact same playbook two thousand years earlier. Here’s how UiPath and Atlassian made the leap, and how to tell which layer you’re actually stuck on.
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Of all the causes which conspire to blindMan’s erring judgment, and misguide the mind,What the weak head with strongest bias rules,Is Pride, the never-failing vice of fools. Alexander Pope, Essay on Criticism, II, 1711. Pride is a fascinating human phenomenon. It can be a vice – as in the poem by Alexander Pope – or … Read more
While fostering economic growth everywhere we’ve been continuously eating into our planet’s resources. We’ve been damaging the systems that keep the planet a healthy environment for ourselves and many other species. Since the beginning of the 20th-century economic growth has been the main metric for the measurement of human wellbeing. It’s an important economic metric … Read more
During a dinner with the French ambassador the British King Charles II. let them serve a pineapple for dessert and he even cut it himself. Today such a scene would seem almost hilarious but in 1670 this was a very serious and unique demonstration of royal glory. The fancy pineapple dessert was a symbolic act … Read more