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Enabling productivity a practitioner's guide
Waggle Dance The waggle dance - the direction the bee moves in relation to the hive indicates direction; if it moves vertically the direction to the source is directly towards the Sun. The duration of the waggle part of the dance signifies the distance.Image by Emmanuel Boutet An observation and response to an interesting paper on equality, advice and the productivity gap from Elias Bouacida, Renaud Foucart and Maya Jalloul identifying that access to expert advice did not significantly reduce the gap in performance between lower and higher-ability chess players [0].Maximizing value with Dynamic Pricing and Behavioral Science
Dynamic pricing / variable pricing has been with us for a long while. From pubs drawing in customers at less busy times with a "Happy Hour" to 10% discount for OAPs on a Thursday afternoon diverting some customers that might otherwise shop during a busy period. It's usually always sound business sense to find ways to generate extra custom and increase profit. What's relatively new is the increase in surge pricing where there's a premium for peak time.What is a Fullstack Developer?
What is a Full-stack Developer? Broadly speaking, a person in software engineering who has a working knowledge of developing and delivering software across the full software / hardware solution stack who specialise in a number of them.