alt Hacker News> This decision reflects Micron’s commitment to its ongoing portfolio transformation and the resulting alignment of its business to secular, profitable growth vectors in memory and storage. By concentrating on core enterprise and commercial segments, Micron aims to improve long-term business performance and create value for strategic customers as well as stakeholders.
What the fuck does "secular" even mean in this context? Is there religious DRAM?
What a short-sighted, boneheaded move. I'm so tired of the MBA-ificiation of every single part of my life.
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Ah let my ask my new nerdy friend gemini3. Prompt: can you improve this text using plain english: This decision reflects Micron’s commitment to its ongoing portfolio transformation and the resulting alignment of its business to secular, profitable growth vectors in memory and storage. By concentrating on core enterprise and commercial segments, Micron aims to improve long-term business performance and create value for strategic customers as well as stakeholders.
Response (who said recently AI cannot do comedy):
Here are a few ways to rewrite this text using plain English, depending on how formal you want to be.
The original text relies heavily on corporate jargon like "secular growth vectors," "portfolio transformation," and "create value." The rewrites below aim to make these concepts concrete.
### Option 1: Professional & Direct (Best for reports or press) > "Micron is shifting its strategy to focus on the most profitable, long-term growth areas in memory and storage. By targeting business and enterprise customers, the company aims to boost its long-term performance and deliver better results for customers and shareholders."
### Option 2: Concise (Best for quick updates) > "Micron is refocusing on high-growth memory and storage markets to improve long-term profits. By concentrating on business customers rather than consumers, the company plans to create more value for its investors and clients."
### Option 3: Simple & Conversational (Best for spoken explanations) > "This decision is part of Micron’s plan to change what we sell. We are focusing on business markets where we see steady, long-term growth. This will help us run a better business and help our customers and investors succeed."
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### Key Changes Made
* *"Ongoing portfolio transformation"* Changed to *"shifting its strategy"* or *"changing what we sell."* This clarifies that the company is changing its mix of products. * *"Secular... growth vectors"* Changed to *"long-term growth areas."* In finance, "secular" refers to trends that last a long time (as opposed to seasonal trends), but in plain English, it is often confusing. * *"Core enterprise and commercial segments"* Changed to *"business and enterprise customers."* This clarifies who they are selling to.
*Would you like me to shorten this further for a slide deck or a specific headline?*
>Is there religious DRAM?
RAM optimized for TempleOS and Holy-C
secular is the opposite of cyclical in business. ie a long-term trend.
And same. Though blowing significant fractions of a trillion dollars into (imo) investments that are never gonna return anything near to making that a good plan (ex a government bailout) will inevitably redirect huge portions of stuff we care about. The world's gdp is about 90T iirc; that is basically taking 1/90th of the stuff the world does in a year and putting it into ai.
Yes, the MBAs and private equity firms are about 80% of the way through ruining everything that was ever good in the world. They've been accelerating exponentially. Probably won't be long now. I like to think it can't get much worse but I thought that several times before and I've been proven wrong each time. Optimism is getting much harder to hold on it.