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Don't like ads? Go ad-free with TradeBriefs Premium Uber's CEO moonlit as a driver to get some hands-on experience. He said this was the most 'nightmare' situation he ended up in - Fortune    If you ordered food through Uber Eats last year, there’s a chance you put the company’s multimillionaire boss in what he describes as a “nightmare” scenario. CEO Dara Khosrowshahi shared his experiences as an Uber driver and courier in an interview with the Wall Street Journal published on Monday. The initiative, called Project Boomerang internally, saw Khosrowshahi driving the streets of San Francisco on several occasions. When asked about his worst “nightmare” experience, he revealed it wasn’t actually involving any passenger he picked up in his car. Continued here You Might Like � � � � � � � � � -     There is an area within TikTok's "dedicated transparency center" built for Oracle employees to review the app's source code for influence operations, covert changes and other manipulation. It looks like a regular office: there's a front desk where guests can check in, TikTok logos on the walls and a safe by the door where the employees of the database giant secure their phones before entering. Once they do so, they sit at desks beneath overhead cameras controlled by TikTok — a requirement that, according to two sources, came directly from the Chinese government. The number and position of these cameras has been a source of contention between TikTok’s parent company ByteDance and Oracle in recent months, according to four sources in position to know and internal documents reviewed by Forbes. ByteDance had planned to place a camera above each Oracle employee as they worked, but Oracle pushed back, saying the cameras would enable ByteDance to see their passwords and other proprietary information. The relationship between ByteDance and Oracle has become deeply untrusting and adversarial, according to five sources. One source with knowledge of the companies’ actions characterized Oracle’s stance toward ByteDance as a “counterintelligence operation,” rather than a normal customer relationship. Meanwhile, some ByteDance employees wonder if Oracle just wants to run up their bill. The TikTok contract, known internally at Oracle as Project Telesis, has made ByteDance one of Oracle’s most lucrative customers. Continued here How the Science of Choice Can Boost Innovation - Harvard Business Review    While history would like you to believe breakthroughs are the result of genius inspiration, or divine intervention, the truth is far more prosaic. Whether it’s the invention of basketball or an organization-wide system for learning and innovation, our greatest minds have arrived at their Eureka! moments by way of clever choosing. That is, they identified their big problem, broke it down into several subproblems, searched to find options for how each subproblem had been previously solved, and combined those options in unique ways to arrive at a novel solution. Continued here

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