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Let's imagine a scenario.

Existing companies have structures and systems that make it too hard for them to integrate machine intelligence to complement and support their human intelligence. Hyper-adaptive, born-in-AI companies emerge and grow over the next three to five years that can evolve and scale faster and more efficiently because they carry no legacy that limits their change. Existing companies struggle to compete because they have human intelligence put in places that constrain rather than relate, connect, and explore.

Capitalism is relentless and attracts entrepreneurs who are relentless and creative. Given this scenario, identify the three most strategically effective intervention points for slowing AI-native companies. For each intervention point:

1. Provide a historical parallel - Draw from past examples of how established industries either successfully slowed disruptors or failed to do so (such as taxis vs Uber, banks vs fintech, telecommunications deregulation, etc.)

2. **Explain stakeho

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I am trying to cool an aspirated laboratory bottle, through its base. The bottle is 120 millimeters in diameter. I have 13 millimeter outer diameter silicone tubing that I can pump a chilled liquid through to cool the bottle.

I want to 3d print a shape that will help me shape the tubing path underneath that bottle to cool it.

I need to generate a shape I can import into Tinkercad to integrate the shape into a larger project. Tinkercad supports stl, obj, and svg files.

The base shape I need is a solid disc: -120 millimeters in diameter -15 millimeters thick.

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Stevey's Google Platforms Rant

I was at Amazon for about six and a half years, and now I've been at Google for that long. One thing that struck me immediately about the two companies -- an impression that has been reinforced almost daily -- is that Amazon does everything wrong, and Google does everything right. Sure, it's a sweeping generalization, but a surprisingly accurate one. It's pretty crazy. There are probably a hundred or even two hundred different ways you can compare the two companies, and Google is superior in all but three of them, if I recall correctly. I actually did a spreadsheet at one point but Legal wouldn't let me show it to anyone, even though recruiting loved it.

I mean, just to give you a very brief taste: Amazon's recruiting process is fundamentally flawed by having teams hire for themselves, so their hiring bar is incredibly inconsistent across teams, despite various efforts they've made to level it out. And their operations are a mess; they don't real