![]() ![]() ![]() And May Day has been around about as long.Īround here, it’s become mostly a seasonal marker, but it was founded to devote just a day to something that deserves much more… to commemorate and celebrate the workers who sacrifice and toil to build.Įveryone needs to work, but now, more people than ever have the privilege to choose which sort of work they’re going to do. There’s nothing wrong with winging it–until there is.įor more than 130 years, we’ve celebrated Labor Day in the US and Canada. There are Big-O problems in marketing, in sales, in customer service, in finance, in production and in compliance. Pushing the old algorithm too far ends up with a crisis–we need to invest in process before we need it, not when the emergency strikes. But when the inputs start to go up, when the business begins to scale, it’s really hard to simply hire another mom. Mom-and-pop businesses work because there’s mom and there’s pop. If you’re running a conference where you expect one or two people to arrive every few minutes, hiring someone to check them in is a pretty obvious move.īut if you expect five or six people at a time, you’ll need to hire at least that many people or it all backs up.īut what about the big convention where thousands of people might arrive at once? In that case, your Big O problem requires you to do away with the check-in altogether and have people do their check-in online, in advance. ![]() But running a food bank gets exponentially more difficult when your inputs and outputs increase. ![]() Running a podcast app doesn’t get more difficult if you list more podcasts or have more users. In computer science, Big-O notation is a way of talking about what happens to a solution method when the inputs start to increase.įor example, sorting numbers is an easy problem when there are only five or six, but when you have to sort 5,000, a totally different algorithm is needed.īusiness models have this baked in. ![]()
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