If you look at the advantages Tesla has over other companies: Vertical Integration Charging Network FSD Hardware FSD Software OS Body Casting/Wiring + other patents Insurance business Data (miles on autopilot) Exponential Growth Rate Factory Design Battery Technology Engineering/Other Top talent Service Centres Mobile Service Sentry Mode/Fart Mode/*Mode* Purchase via website Social Media Following Brand […]
Friction Reduction Blog Posts
Why do I not use a Virtual Machine from my local box?
The first place I worked, iSTORM didn’t use virtual machines. They had a staging server and a production server. We developed on the staging server and used CVS to synchronize code into production. Later on in my career there was a project where part of the consistent environment setup is everybody using the same virtual […]
Tesla Test Drives – Tesla Referral Program 2.0 (or 3.0?)
At one point Elon outright cancelled Tesla’s referral program. Why do this? Why discard some well-developed money making program? Because it was losing money. You see, when you have more demand than you can meet, driving up demand doesn’t make sense. And incentivizing people to increase demand is counter-productive. Increasing demand is not good for […]
February 22nd, 2020
Tesla’s Success due to “Make it Better” Attitude
When products are developed, there tends to be a point where most workers will state “Good Enough!”. But not at Tesla. The question is always, “How Can We Do BETTER?”. Technology builds upon itself. In order to improve, most look to the latest superficial customer facing issues. But to really improve, to the point where […]
Redoing the Dishwasher
Not my dishwasher. All dishwashers. Current options: Litres of Water used Dishes clean Rate Size Cost/year Manual wash 15L – 18L 1 – 10/min w: 12″ – 32″l: 12″ – 24″h: 6″ – 16″ $8200 (@$15/hr) Dish Washing Machine 15L – 20L 1.66/min w: 18″ – 24″l: 24″h: 35″ $150 (energy) + $100 equipment/service The […]
January 3rd, 2020
MySQL w/ JSON Support
Man… MySQL with JSON Support is fucking tight! Pull out the keys and save the rest as JSON. It’s that simple.
October 20th, 2019
Did Dyson strike a deal with Tesla not to make EVs?
This article is pure speculation. If I were Dyson, and I were looking at the big business picture, I would recognise my dependency on Li-ion batteries. The cost of my batteries heavily impacts the cost of my vacuum devices to my customers and my margins as well. Having somebody working towards getting the costs of […]
September 29th, 2019
Bad Defaults
It happens to the best of us. In development, everything has to land somewhere. There has to be default behavior where a user experience can be optimized. One example of default behavior is Google search results. The result is that you get the exact pages you want on the first page of Google’s results. I […]
Cambridge Analytica
I recently reviewed the video The Great Hack from Netflix. Upon looking to cite the link above as a source, I stumbled upon a top Google result (currently second only to the Netflix trailer page itself) called What Netflix’s ‘Great Hack’ Gets Wrong About Cambridge Analytica and subtitled: The British consulting firm didn’t steal the […]