[sharkweek]

> I've pulled back the curtain on logistics and the wizard is just a regular guy.

I agree, but land at a different conclusion.

I dabbled in logistics a bit at one startup and the thing I found true is that every warehouse and receiving dock did things a little different and sometimes that thing was computer software and other times it was a person with sticky notes all over the walls of their tiny office by the bay door who was on 2-3 phone calls at a time screaming at/being screamed at by people moving goods around the city/state/country/world.

Logistics has a ton of room to optimize and I’m sure we’ll continue to see billion dollar startups roll out every year solving some part of it, but in the day-to-day operations of supply chain, change is so incredibly hard. The middle layer of management always seemed so risk averse to making any changes that had the slightest risk of disrupting their existing workflow because if one day they goof something up it quickly spiraled down the chain.

[monero-xmr]

In the show The Wonder Years, the dad works in freight logistics. Watching him go into his office and slowly get more insane as the day goes on is how they explain why he’s a grumpy guy.

Skip to 2 minute mark https://youtu.be/dXfFvdvi7Z0?feature=shared

[psunavy03]

All of this.