Home – D.L. Damore

Skies Aren’t Clogged With Drones Yet, but Don’t Rule Them Out – The New York Times

Test programs around the world that use the technology for lifesaving pharmaceuticals as well as for food and even coffee are attempting to prove that delivery by drones is not only safe, but efficient and environmentally sound.
— Read on www.nytimes.com/2019/03/19/technology/drone-deliveries-faa-pilot-programs.html

*Drones are a future technology area to study. See lots of opportunity for people with multiple knowledge bases that relate to drones. A few areas are geography, human population density, legalities related to airspace, and the allocation of scarce resources.

August 4, 2019

Commentary, Interesting Bits

Drones, NYT
NYT: “Handcrafted: Inside Brooklyn’s Best Tailors”

“The hardest part of making a suit is the customer,” he said. “Some people don’t know what they want. They want it loose, then they want it tight. That’s why you have to have two fittings.”

August 4, 2019

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Customer Satisfaction, NYT
Slack Stock Soars, Putting Company’s Public Value at $19.5 Billion – The New York Times

Slack Stock Soars, Putting Company’s Public Value at $19.5 Billion
— Read on www.nytimes.com/2019/06/20/technology/slack-stock-ipo-price-trading.html

June 20, 2019

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Slack
How a janitor at Frito-Lay invented Flamin’ Hot Cheetos

Richard Montañez went from cleaning toilets to being one of the most creative executives in the food industry. But first, he had to call the CEO…
— Read on thehustle.co/hot-cheetos-inventor/

*Worth a read.

June 20, 2019

Interesting Bits

Innovation
Same Pictures. Same Places. 68 Years Apart. – The New York Times

When George Eastman, founder of the Eastman Kodak Company, introduced the Kodak #1 camera in 1888, photography became vastly more convenient. With a sale price of $25 (roughly $700 today), the camera was preloaded with a 100-frame roll of film.
— Read on www.nytimes.com/2019/05/01/nyregion/nyc-photos-from-1951.html

*Did not know that.

May 2, 2019

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Kodak, NYT, Photography
Slack Discloses $141 Million Loss as Messaging Start-Up Joins Tech Listing Rush – The New York Times

The company had 88,000 paying customers at the end of the most recent fiscal year, up almost 50 percent from the previous year. Of those customers, 575 paid more than $100,000 for their subscriptions, contributing about 40 percent of the company’s revenue.
— Read on www.nytimes.com/2019/04/26/technology/slack-filing.html

April 29, 2019

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NYT, Slack
One Man vs. McKinsey: A Billionaire Says the Consultancy Has Rigged the Bankruptcy System – The New York Times

Contrary to the public imagination, bankruptcy courts are not where businesses go to die. In fact, there is potential for creativity and rebirth in Chapter 11, the uniquely American law for corporate reorganizations.

“Most countries just liquidate companies,” said Richard Gitlin, a bankruptcy lawyer specializing in international debt restructurings who has worked with Mr. Alix in the past. “We are the best at restructuring the resources, taking the good part of the business, adding professional management and making it profitable.”
— Read on www.nytimes.com/2019/04/11/business/jay-alix-mckinsey-bankruptcy.html

*Really interesting article. The snippet above is just one of many interesting sections of this article.

April 13, 2019

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Bankruptcy, NYT
Your Student Loan Servicer Will Call You Back in a Year. Sorry. – The New York Times

Here’s what’s going on: The Public Service Loan Forgiveness program is an administrative quagmire unlike nearly anything I’ve covered in a quarter-century as a journalist.
— Read on www.nytimes.com/2019/04/12/your-money/public-service-loan-forgiveness.html

April 13, 2019

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Loan Forgiveness, NYT
Charles Van Doren, a Quiz Show Whiz Who Wasn’t, Dies at 93 – The New York Times

“I would give almost anything I have to reverse the course of my life in the last three years,” he said. He said he had agonized in a moral and mental struggle to come to terms with his own betrayals.

He lost his job at Columbia, NBC canceled his contract, and, along with others who had lied to the grand jury about their quiz show roles, he pleaded guilty to second-degree perjury, a misdemeanor, and received a suspended sentence.
— Read on www.nytimes.com/2019/04/10/obituaries/charles-van-doren-dead.html

April 13, 2019

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NYT, obituary
He Has Driven for Uber Since 2012. He Makes About $40,000 a Year. – The New York Times

Silicon Valley has always been a lottery where immense wealth is secured by a few while everyone else must hope for better luck some other time. Rarely, however, has the disparity been on such stark display as with Uber. Its stock market value is expected to be about $100 billion, which would make it one of the richest Silicon Valley public offerings of all time.
— Read on www.nytimes.com/2019/04/12/technology/uber-driver-ipo.html

April 13, 2019

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NYT, Uber