Technology

Sleep Number: The Tesla of the Mattress Industry

My harrowing tale about buying a costly mattress that finishes with a very happy ending and lets me enjoy some of the best sleep I’ve had in years.

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Delta’s $34M Ed Bastian Isn’t Ready When You Are

Sharing some thoughts I’m confident will be of interest to thousands of disgruntled Delta customers stranded at airports around the world or waiting on hold for hours praying someone will help them.

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Donald Trump’s Snake Oil Chinese Auto Tariffs

The establishment media would be wise to take a break from likening Trump to Hitler and Mussolini and expose his half-baked and harmful tariff positions, particularly with regards to Chinese-made electric vehicles. The policy would harm Toyota, Honda, and VW, America’s MAGA automotive manufacturers.

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On Seeing Some Good in Walmart’s Evil

Like many Americans, I long viewed Walmart as pure evil. Under the decade-long leadership of CEO Doug McMillon, the company has undergone considerable reform. Comparatively speaking, McMillon deserved the $27 million he was paid last year.

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The Sad and Soulless Starbucks Experience

If someone set out to create the most inefficient and unpleasant coffee buying experience possible, I’m doubtful they could surpass what Starbucks CEO Laxman Narasimhan has achieved.

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China’s Deserved Electric Vehicles Supremacy

President Biden recently slimed China’s communist government and its automotive industry entrepreneurs with a false accusation they achieved their EV supremacy because they cheated. In fact, China achieved its EV supremacy because that country’s communist government is run by bureaucrats who run circles around the Biden Administration’s energy and transportation officials and its EV automotive leaders put GM’s and Ford’s to shame.

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The Ties That Bind Google and UAW Workers

Google was long hailed as the gold standard of what was once known as HR management. It’s telling how much in common Google employees share with UAW autoworkers these days, including some similarities that are very unflattering.

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Ford University: Higher Ed for Auto Sales & Service

Determining how best to harness and apply AI is all the rage these days, and CEOs are paid the big bucks because of their supposedly superior smarts to figure it out. At Ford, whose CEO Jim Farley received more than $60 million in compensation these past three years, the company plans to use AI to create Hollywood quality “edutainment” videos that it hopes will steal viewers from Netflix and Amazon and bolster the sales and service capabilities of its dealerships.

Let’s just say I’m a tad skeptical.

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