Not much today.

Wastebook

• “decision-makers can remain irrational longer than you can remain solvent. Career advice in 2025.

• ”a concept as antiquated as intent.” NYTimes.

• “a felicitous remove.” Spicy.

• “Significant improvement but still issues.” Oxide and Friends.

Relative to your interests

• A Conversation Algorithm I Cribbed From Clinical PsychologistsWhat does “open ended question” even mean? Here’s some examples, and a conversational framework built around it. This also probably good for sales and marketing.

• The Product Engineer – “If you build Enterprise Software, you need product managers.” // If consumer, you need developers who use the product.

• The good times in tech are over – ”If you were an engineer who loved working on your company’s open-source libraries, it’s probably sensible to confront the fact that the company never really cared about it that much.”

• Refactoring to understand and “vibe coding” – ”Code is not the most valuable artifact. Your understanding of the codebase is.”

Logoff

I’ve been re-learning Spring with Dan Vega’s Spring Boot crash course. It’s great, and encouraging. So much has changed since 2005, but the thrill of learning and doing little iterations is fun. After this, there’s his Spring AI course. I hope to get skilled enough to make some D&D AI tools/MCP servers, whatever.

Once I can get over the (to this older Java coder) rails-like feel of Java and Spring (where there’s so much going on in the background hat it gets confusing to know what to do – it’s so simple, I have no idea where to start), it’s pretty quick and interesting.

Also, since the effects and outcomes of Spring (along with Tanzu Platform/Cloud Foundry) are what I talk about at work all the time, it’ll be good to have more first hand experience than the “reporting” I do on it.