Rich Karlgaard, Forbes publisher had a talk called Technology and 2018 Turbulence

When Rich walked on stage the title had change to “Thriving in the Age of Smart Machines. How to build an unstoppable amidst unstoppable technology acceleration and change.”

I was busy taking note and found this article which summarizes Rich’s talk given to GM. https://www.hydrocarbonprocessing.com/news/2018/03/technology-adaptability-are-key-to-keeping-us-industry-on-top

What got funny was when Rich used the decline of GM talking about the corvette to the Cadillac Cimarron when the company was running from a financial aspect.

Contrast being a numbers person at GM vs. Jeff Bezos who has a two pizza number for how big a team should be.

Rich added the following slide for the data center audience discussing the importance of talent.

What I took from this slide is how important math skills are to work in technology companies. If you are interested in the rest of the presentation you can read this post on the GM presentation. https://www.hydrocarbonprocessing.com/news/2018/03/technology-adaptability-are-key-to-keeping-us-industry-on-top