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Bengaluru-based stock trading platform Sahi raised a $33M Series B led by Accel at a $200M valuation to expand into margin trade funding, commodities, and more (The Economic Times)
https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/t

Stock trading startup Sahi secures $33 million from Accel, Elevation
Bengaluru's Sahi, a stock trading platform, has raised $33 million, valuing it at $200 million. The funds will fuel expansion into margin trade funding, commodities, and mutual funds. Founded in 2023, Sahi aims to disrupt the broking space, already boasting 400,000 demat accounts and processing 3% of daily trades. AI integration for client decision-making is also a key focus.

RE: https://toot.cat/@plexus/116283016837715719
It should also be noted that beyond the ethical, political and environmental issues with this is that it doesn't work:
1. There is on average no mid to long term productivity gain with actual real-world software development that isn't just a "wow see what it can do" demo. (Multiple studies have shown that now.)
2. It won't help with 90% of the work when professionally making software, which, believe it or not, isn't coding. 90% of the work is designing and planning the software (these are things that happen both upfront and during development).
Maybe you have seen the recent Microsoft thing rolling back features in Windows they added?
E.g. Copilot in Notepad. What they did is essentially outsourcing project management to developers who then outsourced it to LLMs. But an LLMs can't plan and design software, and arguably barely can even generate code that works (as in reliable and performant). So now they have a buggy mess with features no one wants and they're rolling it back.
There's no silver bullets in software development.

The Tampa Bay Times starts monthly "article clubs" for news stories, to discuss the substance of a chosen story and look at the reporting process (Sophie Culpepper/Nieman Lab)
https://www.niemanlab.org/2026/02/the-tampa-bay-times-s…

The Tampa Bay Times starts a monthly “book club” for news stories
The idea is not just to discuss a story's substance, but to give readers a behind-the-scenes look at the reporting process and decision-making that shape the published article.

Good #process_improvement practices include:
standardized improvement process (pdsa, or whatever)
Going to the gemba – improvement is done where the work is done. You must go to the where the action is. Sitting in meeting rooms, or offices, reading reports and making decisions is not the way to improve effectively.
evidence based decision making
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RE: https://mastodon.social/@workchronicles/116260028658995411
If this is the decision making process on your project, it means your project is fucked.
Yes, I have suffered through those projects. They mean project leadership is incompetent. I…

I never realized making everyone spend time in the most crowded, most slowly moving lines would end up "prioritizing the general traveling population" - I thought that would just slow down throughput for everyone, creating longer, slower lines. I'm amazed at #Noem's brilliant management insights. /s
Homeland Security suspends TSA PreCheck, Global Entry airport security prog…

TSA PreCheck still operational after previous suspension announcement
The Transportation Security Administration said Sunday that its PreCheck program would remain operational. The development contradicts an earlier announcement from the U.S. Department of Homeland Security that the airport security service was being suspended during the partial government shutdown. It was not immediately clear whether Global Entry would be affected. PreCheck and Global Entry are designed to help speed registered travelers through security lines, and suspensions would likely caus…

I never realized making everyone spend time in the most crowded, most slowly moving lines would end up "prioritizing the general traveling population" - I thought that would just slow down throughput for everyone, creating longer, slower lines. I'm amazed at #Noem's brilliant management insights. /s
Homeland Security suspends TSA PreCheck, Global Entry airport security prog…

TSA PreCheck still operational after previous suspension announcement
The Transportation Security Administration said Sunday that its PreCheck program would remain operational. The development contradicts an earlier announcement from the U.S. Department of Homeland Security that the airport security service was being suspended during the partial government shutdown. It was not immediately clear whether Global Entry would be affected. PreCheck and Global Entry are designed to help speed registered travelers through security lines, and suspensions would likely caus…

In the winter of 1898, a mechanical engineer named Frederick Winslow Taylor arrived at the Bethlehem Steel Company in Pittsburgh with a stopwatch and a conviction.
Taylor had been thinking for years about why industrial work was so inefficient, and he believed he had found the answer:
the problem, he thought, was that the people who did the work were also the people who decided how to do it.
Workers brought their own habits, their own rhythms, their own judgment. All of th…

Design and Engineering, As One · Matthias Ott
We inherited our product processes from a 19th-century steel works. Frederick Winslow Taylor separated thinking from doing, managers from makers, designers from builders – and a hundred years later, most digital product teams are still running on that model. The gap between design and engineering isn’t an accident. It was designed in. And it can be designed out.

“This provisional implementation of the trade agreement with Mercosur is anti-democratic. The EU, which always talks about the principles of the rule of law, is here violating its own decision-making process,” said Dutch lawmaker Jessika van Leeuwen, who hails from the European People’s Party, von der Leyen’s own group.
https://www.politico.eu/article/brussels-implements-eu-mercosur-trade-deal/