#Business framework

[raffaellopalandri]

Book of the Day - A New Way to Think

Today’s Book of the Day is A New Way to Think, written by Roger L. Martin in 2022 and published by Harvard Business Review Press. Roger L. Martin is Professor of Strategic Management, Emeritus, at the University of Toronto’s Rotman School of Management. In 2017 Thinkers50 named him the world’s number one management thinker. He has published twelve books so far and works as a strategy adviser to…

[seonghwacore]

be real honest. which member of your favorite group whose personality is actually similar to you? are they your bias or not?

[daydreamerdrew]

All-New Captain America (2015) #4 and #2-4 and #6

[linisiane]

I’m kind of annoyed at the big posts about Zepotha rn. You guys are gatekeepers and don’t even understand what you’re gatekeeping! Cohesion this and lack of plot that. “Skill issue” “Copycat!—” NO. We must go deeper.

Goncharov was a love letter to tumblr fandom culture. An analysis of the way we collectively talk queer themes into existence.

Tumblr blogs dedicated to queer ships. Intricate metas on the queer themes of a work. Screenshot redraws of romantic moments. Comics that are incredibly horny but still somehow capture the original themes. Prompt fills of what we imagine the story could’ve been had there been another (gayer) way.

So many of these types of posts on tumblr are considered reaches or “making things up” by the greater world. But they are analyses made meaningful through this shared sense of community, this shared experience of queerness in a society that doesn’t think of us or our themes as real. Goncharov being “made up” is a celebration of the way we come together to make the queer themes we want to see in the world, especially the ones the world doesn’t think exists. A way to say, “Of course we’re ‘mAkiNg tHiNgS uP,’ Goncharov is made up,” like it’s some sort of metaphor made literal.

Yes, the Google docs and the Martin Scorsese movie framework are a huge part of what made Goncharov work, but what spread excitement are the Goncharov posts just like the ones I listed above. Goncharov isn’t just what we imagine this fake movie to be, but also the fandom/queer culture we imagined surrounded it, and I’d argue that this culture is just as much of a framework for Goncharov as the Martin Scorsese thing was. Why else have non-canonical gay ships in the movie we made up?

TikTok’s problem is that it doesn’t have the original passion and love for queer analysis to gel it the way Goncharov did. Or really anything to gel it beyond cheap clout chasing. No depth, only virality.

It’s like a cute in joke being turned into loveless corporate marketing. Taking something from its original context to prey upon it, ruining what was good about it in the first place. It feels like when corporations tried to recreate Barbenheimer, except it’s someone trying to create a trend on TikTok to market their song, only for the trend to burn out quickly because everybody’s treating it like a joke instead of committing. By its structure (the reblog system) Tumblr is a place of collaboration and building upon what’s come before. TikTok, on the other hand, favors a personalized algorithm pushing viral content over content creators. It’s about reaching the top of a trend or a sound before it dies off in two weeks.

It just rubs me the wrong way how some people act like Zepotha’s crime is being a shitty copy of Goncharov. This is the Fanfiction website. We love amateurism and “originality” means nothing to us. We should be happy to celebrate the people on there making genuine attempts at TikTok edits of the characters or those TikTok green screen filter reviews of the movie or ‘dressing like Zepotha characters’ vids instead of denigrating Zepotha for being too derivative. There are genuine tiktoks out there that do a great job of committing to the bit and crystallizing what fandom formats on TikTok look like, which is exactly what the Goncharov screenshot redraws, horny comics, and queer metas were on Tumblr.

Like, there’s so much to rag against Zepotha—the inauthenticity, the clout-chasing, the way TikTok’s virality algorithm makes art worse, the lack of in-universe TikToks calling out the Zepotha fans for being racist (I’d kill for that TikTok skit!)—that roasting the amateur execution of excited teens is missing the forest for the trees.

[ephemeral-winter]

working with other people full-time is so weird. like i see these guys more than i see anybody else in my life and i feel like i know so much about them and ultimately it feels quite intimate to know e.g. how someone hums when they're thinking hard and yet it's all a facade because we do not hang out outside of work and i will never see them being themselves in another environment

[whentherewerebicycles]

[mariocki]

Infinite list of favourite lyrics: 222/?

John Cale - Dying on the Vine (1985)

"Who could sleep through all that noisy chatter?

The troops, the celebrations in the sun.

The authorities say my papers are all in order

And if I wasn't such a coward

I would run.

I'll see you when all the shooting's over;

Meet me on the other side of town.

Yes, you can bring all your friends along for protection,

It's always nice to have them hanging around.

I was thinking about my mother,

I was thinking about what's mine.

I was living my life like a Hollywood,

But I was dying, dying on the vine."

[babacontainsmultitudes]

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[gieomwork]

Operational resilience is the ability of an organization to adapt and continue to operate effectively in the face of unexpected disruptions, such as natural disasters, cyber-attacks, or other crises. It involves the ability to quickly detect and respond to disruptions, minimize their impact, and maintain critical business functions.

Operational resilience frameworks provide a systematic approach for organizations to build resilience into their operations. These frameworks typically involve four main steps:

Identify: Organizations must identify their critical business processes, systems, and dependencies. This involves understanding the various functions and processes that are essential to the organization's operations and identifying any potential vulnerabilities.

Protect: Organizations must take steps to protect their critical assets and functions. This can include implementing robust cybersecurity measures, creating redundancy in critical systems, and ensuring appropriate backup and recovery procedures are in place.

Detect: Organizations must have the ability to quickly detect any disruptions or potential threats to their operations. This involves implementing monitoring and alerting systems that can quickly identify and report any anomalies.

Respond: Organizations must have a plan in place to respond to disruptions and ensure continuity of critical business functions. This can include having clear procedures for communication, backup and recovery, and alternative work arrangements.

[raffaellopalandri]

Book of the Day - Strategy in Action

Today’s Book of the Day is Strategy in Action, written by Angel Gavieiro Besteiro in 2022 and published by Springer. Angel Gavieiro Besteiro is an international expert in banking and strategy. He has held senior executive roles as SVP/divisional head of strategy and business development for Barclays, Lloyds Bank, and Wells Fargo. He was a management consultant at McKinsey & Co. In addition, he…

[russenoire]

oh look. yet another person unaware that overt queer/LGBTQ+ branding in much of asia gets you censored and banned. you can be it and do it all you want, but you can't say it if you want conservative groups or governments to leave you the fuck alone. of course takarazuka refuses association with the label. it doesn't necessarily mean they reject queerness.

anyway. the takarazuka revue is fabulous and transgressive, and very binary. it demands chastity (or at least singleness) from its members, not unlike japan's pop idol circuit. its 'students' start as teenagers and are forbidden to associate with men for their entire tenure with the group. it's been hugely influential and a comfort to millions of japanese folks, queer and straight, over almost a century. spot on for the rest of this.

Takarazuka Revue is so funny because it’s like we are a fine upstanding institution of good family values, like homophobia. Please ignore the lesbians making up the majority of people both on stage and in the audience.

Takarazuka Revue is like: we enforce only the strictest gender roles in our troupe as is right and proper, sorting them into the two genders: women who are women, and women who are men. How dare you suggest there’s anything queer about that.

Takarazuka Revue is simultaneously the queerest thing and the least queer thing to ever exist. Takarazuka bucks tradition and is tradition incarnate. Takarazuka is like

and then is like, “no homo”

and maintains itself as one of the most hierarchical artistic organizations in the world with intense control over its performers. This alternate reality where the talented (and lucky, and connected) few can gain the right to openly perform queerness in the one setting comphet capitalism has carved out for them as long as they follow a different even stricter set of rules for dress and behavior. It dissembles traditional gender by its very existence and so must reinforce it at every turn.

And yet despite being the product of a conservative capitalist railroad owner who only really sought to exploit women for entertainment aimed at men (and their hetero families) that remains loyal to those deeply normative puritanical roots, it was and is also one of the most liberating theater and media experiences of queer Japanese people for decades. You can tell from all the queer art about it, by queer people. By the fact that the audience who flocked to it were not (cis) men.

Trying to untangle the mutual influence of shoujo manga to takarazuka is even more difficult that trying to untangle something like the history of modern Broadway and Disney movies. We wouldn’t have The Little Mermaid without Little Shop of Horrors, but we wouldn’t have Wicked without the Disney renaissance, but we wouldn’t have Frozen without Wicked, and going back further to things like Cinderella and Rogers and Hammerstein and they are intertwined but listen to me. Takarazuka and shoujo manga, especially yuri, are more intertwined. And then so much western media has been inspired by shoujo anime. Rose of Versailles the manga was inspired by Takarazuka and then in turn was adapted into their most famous play which then in turn influenced so many more artworks. Uranus and Neptune are an otokoyaku and musumeyaku. Utena and Anthy (and honestly that whole ass show. The stairs?? C’mon). And all the works and creators THOSE works inspired.

We owe so much to Takarazuka but also if we tried to thank them for their role in queer history they’d be like “we’ve never been queer in our lives!!!!!!!!” and then say a slur to your face while taking your money. Incredible. Wish more people knew what the fuck it was and I could get fansubs.

[jcmarchi]

Chromia's Asgard upgrade launches: “New era for DeFi and AI” - AI News

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Chromia's Asgard upgrade launches: “New era for DeFi and AI” - AI News

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Layer 1 relational blockchain Chromia unveils its Asgard mainnet upgrade.

Includes new extensions that add specialised capabilities to the blockchain.

The Oracle Extension has launched with the AI Inference Extension expected early next year.

The Chromia blockchain development team has announced the successful completion of its Asgard mainnet upgrade that introduces new features and capabilities for the platform. The new features enhance the overall capacity of the Layer 1 blockchain and add specialised capabilities for users.

The Asgard mainnet upgrade includes the launch of Chomia Extensions, expected to support the growth of decentralised finance (DeFi) and AI-enabled applications on the Chromia Network.

Announced on November 15, the Chromia team believes the mainnet will redesign how data is organised on the blockchain, changing the development and use of Web 3 applications. The blockchain utilises a modular framework to offer users and developers of decentralised application (dApp) chains, customisable fee structures, and advanced digital assets.

The extensions are modular enhancements that enable developers to build additional features on top of the main blockchain, expanding functionality and utility while maintaining the benefits of the existing infrastructure. The Extensions complement the platform’s relational data architecture, modular network design, and gas-free economic model for end users.

Chromia launches Oracle Extensions

The Oracle Extension]] provides fully on-chain, real-time price feeds that are updated approximately once a second. It provides developers in Chromia’s ecosystem the ability to develop DeFi applications like decentralised exchanges, futures and options platforms, and lending protocols.

Ludvig Öberg, VP of the Chromia Platform Unit said he believes the Oracle Extension will help grow the DeFi space on the blockchain. “The Oracle Extension lays the groundwork for an expansion of decentralised finance activity on the Chromia network and the growth of network value.”

According to the team statement, the launch of the Oracle Extension purports to bond well with the overall goal of “strengthening connections across the wider cryptocurrency ecosystem.” The company has made recent efforts to integrate native CHR tokens and other Chromia-based tokens with centralised exchanges and cross-chain wallets.

Chromia plans to release a public demo of the Oracle Extension, with integrations by DeFi protocols expected soon after.

AI Inference Extension to launch early 2025

Chromia has also announced it has plans to launch an AI Inference Extension, expected in Q1 2025. The module will enable developers to execute AI models directly on-chain using Chromia’s decentralised provider network. The project’s recently formed Data and AI Division’s focus is on creating tools to enhance transparency in AI training data and inputs.

Speaking about the AI Extension’s planned launch, Yeou Jie, Head of Business Development at Chromia, said their team’s plan is to expand “transparency to AI.”

“As the world’s only relational blockchain, Chromia has demonstrated its ability to bring transparency to AI and other data-intensive use cases. The AI Inference Extension will take this a step further, enabling on-chain execution of AI models.”

Seen as the first major technical update on Chromia, Asgard mainnet provides a way for the blockchain to support other functions and decentralised applications including AI, gaming, finance, and enterprise use-cases.

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