Titanic.

On Titanic, opportunities to mitigate the crisis were missed. The ship could have launched lifeboats earlier, filled them better, and sent distress signals sooner. The crew was unsure about who was calling the shots, especially once the scale of the crisis became clear. There are immense hazards in relying on traditional chains of command when fast reaction is critical.

Yet Atlanta hasn’t gotten its share of the fintech buzz, perhaps because its founders are less prone to tweetstorming and its products don’t have developers rhapsodizing about APIs. Atlanta’s fintech scene has developed around a stabler, more cautious ethos: less move fast and break things, more stay safe and build things. At a time when fintech valuations have fallen sharply from their lofty peaks and regulators are circling, that may make Atlanta a more favorable place to place fintech bets, whether that means founding a company, investing or hiring local talent.

Semiconductors are in short supply because of several colliding factors, including spikes in demand for consumer electronic products and concurrent slowdowns in chip production caused by the pandemic. In 1990, the U.S. produced 37% of the world’s semiconductors. Today, it produces 12%. Meanwhile, 75% of the world’s chip manufacturing is concentrated in East Asia. Micron is the only memory manufacturer remaining in the Western Hemisphere, and it makes 2% of the global memory chips in the U.S.

…it’s only usually during a crisis that women get promoted to C-Suite roles — a phenomenon known as the “glass cliff.” “If a company or team is having a rough time — a downturn, managerial failures, or other market failures — they’re more likely to bring in a woman in a senior position than they would otherwise,” she says. “But they bring them in and don’t institutionally support them or set them up for success.”

“One of our principles is that Southwest Virginia is not a bubble; it can have an impact statewide,” Payne said. “We’re about making it the location of choice for specialty grain for the craft beer industry.”

InvestSWVA is a public-private business attraction and marketing campaign for Southwest Virginia launched under the umbrella of the Virginia Tobacco Region Revitalization Commission and backed by private industry.

A quiet, intelligent, and scientific mind, Seurat had developed his technique in keeping with his studies of the latest optical and color theories—particularly those of chemist Michel Eugène Chevreul and physicist Ogden Rood—who had hypothesized that two chromatically pure pigments placed side by side would maintain a greater visual intensity than when blended together. While these theories would later be largely disproved, Seurat’s masterpiece does visually boggle, engaging the eye in a vacillation between the painting’s perceived depth and its highly worked surface.