Using Surveys for Marketing

Wastebook

• They dress like they’re Chaotic Good, but they’re totally Lawful Good under all that sloppy couture.

• This is some buck-wild ABM: a direct appeal to Delta to buy their AI stuff.

• “I wrote this one when my family was in Hawaii, too. I kind of had a meltdown there, to be honest.” Blue Cheese.

• If you were to watch Furosia and Fury Road back-to-back, as one movie, it might just be the best action movie ever made. You’d need two intermissions, though, not between the two movies, but right before each major action sequence.

• Why Not Give Robots Foot-Eyes? Here.

• “How are you today?” “Legally prohibited from complaining due to a non-disparagement clause, you?” Via.

• “The problem is the darker side of the word, when we use it to express ‘merely.’” Here.

• “nothing fun happens on a Monday night.” Here.

• “Unsavory”

• “How does (or will) AI impact this decision?” // When AI reaches the office or the CFO. // If your CFO asked this, how would you even answer it? Would a CFO know how to interpret, verify, and trust the answer? // Maybe the right answer is “who knows. Have you actually used those things? How about we put ‘fuck around and find out’ on the ledger for this quarter?”

• There’s no fucking around, just finding out.

• “Why Not Give Robots Foot-Eyes?” Here.

• “It just wasn’t their world anymore. So they had to leave.” Hilda, s1e2.

• “There’s that well observed effect where you have better conversations if you’re not looking each other in the eye. Driving. Walking. Walking meetings. Watching telly on the sofa.” Russell Davies.

• And: “they still have a selection of newspapers you can read. That means something, they’re not going to hurry you out if they’ve offering you a newspaper.” Ibid.

• “How are you today?” “Legally prohibited from complaining due to a non-disparagement clause, you?” Via.

• “The problem is the darker side of the word, when we use it to express ‘merely.’” Here.

• “A turd for your argument” Here.

Relative to your interests

• Platform Engineering: The First Hype Cycle - I should probably read this.

• Gartner Survey Shows 66% of Finance Leaders Think Generative AI Will Have Most Immediate Impact on Explaining Forecast and Budget Variances - What’s also remarkable is how low they rate other use cases. I’m a bit confounded about reports that consulting firms are getting billions in sales for AI stuff. What could it possibly be?

• A Eulogy for DevOps - “Feels like somehow Developers got stuck with a lot more work and Operation teams now need to learn 600 technologies a week. Surprisingly tech executives didn’t get any additional work with this system. I’m sure the next reorg they’ll chip in more.” // New idea for conference talk: The Nine Lives of DevOps.

• Kubernetes Security Report: Evolving Landscape of DevSecOps - Red Hat Kubernetes surveys results, here, looking at the security part. The theory is: there’s too many different parties working on security, causing “confusion and delay.” See also our recent State of Cloud Native Platforms survey (5th year in a row): security is always on the top. I guess that problem will never get solved.

• YouTube dominates streaming, forces media companies to adapt - “YouTube made up 9.7% of all viewership on connected and traditional TVs in the U.S. in May — the largest share of TV for a streaming platform ever reported by Nielsen’s monthly ‘The Gauge’ report. Netflix ranked second, claiming 7.6% of viewership. Among streamers only, YouTube’s total viewership was close to 25% market share.”

• Don’t be results-oriented - Make sure your factory is functioning well.

• Enterprise hits and misses - gen AI spending meets ROI pressure, AI readiness is a thing, and AR/VR has a vision problem - “Enterprise hypothesis: AI can’t fix what ails you (e.g. legacy landscape and ‘messy’ data bottlenecks), but applied properly, it can accelerate what you do well.” // And, as said elsewhere: “So you aren’t just adopting AI, you’re doing data management as well.”

Logoff

Someone finally figured out why procrastination is therapeutic:

New idea for a conference talk: “How platform engineering stole all your sponsorship money.” It’d kill as a lighting/ignite/whatever talk on the DevOpsDays circuit.

It’s July!