I don't understand all this techincal jargon
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I usually go at dinner time, 6:00pm-6:30pm, usually it's fresh but last week I went and the burger was just wet and gross and couldn't eat it all.  I agree lunch time is usually safe but I don't understand why it wouldn't be fresh at dinner time either.  It's like trying to get back that first high I just can't seem to get there anymore :( When the deal closes, will it be as if I sold all of my ESPP shares   with regards to taxes? Probably. If the deal is for cash and not stock exchange, then once the deal is approved and closed all the existing shareholders will sell their shares to the buyer for cash. Is there any way to mitigate this? Unlikely. You need to understand that ESPP is just a specific way to purchase shares, it doesn't give you any special rights or protections that other shareholders don't have. You don't need to click, I can tell you the answer in one word: **HYPE**.  One universal truth about big corporations and their CEOs, they don't understand anything about computers or technology. It simply isn't their expertise. If they hear from the television that the most important thing in the world is blockchains, they're going to bite that hook.  The most important thing is not blockchains. blockchains are almost completely unimportant. All a blockchain is, is a log file that never gets trimmed or deleted, and everyone gets a copy, and they verify the contents against each other's copies. It's not revolutionary, and you don't need it. Hedge fund idea: Cynic Capital   1. Create unclever, mostly-passive funds consisting of a sufficiently diverse array of holdings with historically* low volatility  2. Lever the shit out of it  3. Market it with excessive jargon to impress laymen   4. Attract investors with more money than sense  5. Make it up as you go along until you can hire actually smart, creative people down the road and pray that the market doesn't correct in the meantime  Yeah it's stupid but why wouldn't it work?    Furthermore, is this not basically what some hedge funds have done in the past?      ^(*past performance not guaranteeing future performance yada yada yada) I feel like as millennials rise and become the next round of CEOs they'll already have more core knowledge than what a current traditional CEO has around concepts of technology. To me this is just the natural evolution of the CEO.    As far as current CEO's, ya great learn some tech stuff, however it won't really skyrocket them in my opinion (don't get me wrong, if you're CEO of Apple or Google, I'm going to guess you know some tech stuff). However for non-tech industries, if current CEO's want to learn more about tech I think that's great but, most of them still won't get it, they'll just say the normal buzzwords and enough to get by. Then a CTO/CIO will step up. Also one risk here is, you get a CEO who wants to learn tech or gets a wild hair and then they think they know everything and then the backsliding begins, I actually worked at a company that went this direction because a CEO learned about a new product that would replace our backend processing software and wanted everyone to start converting to it, then the CIO had to come in and take reins. Yes, it's still a mess, but I hope the information is good. Would love to hear your comments in regards to the language used (not a native English speaker) and the information given. The site is under development, it will look nice, will have a nice ebook, and whatnot. All help is appreciated. Thank you so much guys. "I like stuff like this for perspective but I found the article lacking in mechanics as to how to unlearn, how to apply it, etc. I may have missed it though. This reminds me of my CEO challenging everyone at every level to ""innovate"". Need more of the ""how"" behind these kinds of objectives. It's great to shed preconceptions, think outside the box, etc but that's been managerial buzz speak for years, and yet we still find ourselves within the box. Focusing on how to get out of it seems like a worthy cause." We aren't faking it. IT is an extremely complex job so we often have to learn or relearn a technology at the whim of some bean counter because they want to save a few bucks or a junior executive because they attended a seminar and want to try that cool new thing they heard about (cough, DevOps, cough...)