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What UPS has left me, part 2: The Methods

After five years behind the wheel, safe driving became second nature. When I returned from layoff last year, all of the brown package cars in my UPS facility had been outfitted with a new piece of equipment: AI-powered dashboard cameras. If I recall correctly, we were told that these front-facing cameras were always on, even […]

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How to manage an industrial army, part 1.

For the past several months the eyes of the world have been on Ukraine. In a modern David-versus-Goliath scenario, Russia’s military has met tougher-than-expected resistance from scrappy Ukrainian forces – the entire Ukrainian population, really. Outmanned and outgunned, Ukrainians have nevertheless shown themselves fierce defenders of their homeland against the invading aggressors. What was supposed […]