On the pleasure of reading private notebooks - Diaries (“journals”) and notebooks are the best, I love them as well. // “I think this is because our genuine thoughts (and interests) are more detailed and alive than the simulations we have of what we should say (or be interested in). When we think no one listens, we relax into the genuine. I’ve been told, repeatedly, that I hide my most interesting thoughts in the footnotes.” // “This is, I think, at the root of why I like reading private notes so much. There are so few places where we get to be close to other people and see the messy humanity they carry behind the identities they have polished for society life.” // There’s a certain kind of “comfort in knowing you’re not the only one” therapy in that.
Broadcom’s Private Cloud Outlook 2025 Report Reveals Definitive Cloud Reset - “More than half (53%) of survey respondents say private cloud is their top priority for deploying new workloads over the next three years, while 69% are considering workload repatriation from public to private cloud, with one-third having already done so. Private cloud is also now a strategic equal for AI and cloud-native apps, with 66% preferring to run container and Kubernetes-based applications on private cloud or a mix of public and private, while 55% prefer private cloud for AI model training, tuning and inference."
Beyond Launch - ‘In enterprise environments, silence gets interpreted as stagnation. Stakeholders will assume “if I’m not hearing about progress, there probably isn’t any” - and they’re usually right!'
Is AI just going to end up being about programming? - I think there’s about a 30% chance that the answer is yet. // Rather: AI is good at text. If you can get it into text, and you want text as the output: easy win.
Cloud Repatriation is Getting Complicated - The repatriation thought-leading is taking hold. Even the bomb thrower is soaking in the ambient thought leadering!
Google Study: 65% of Developer Time Wasted Without Platforms - Better get a platform. // ‘Intriguingly, 86% of the survey’s respondents also said they believe that “platform engineering is essential to realizing the full business value of AI. " // “At the same time, a vast majority of companies view AI as a catalyst for advancing platform engineering, with 94% of organizations identifying AI to be ‘Critical’ or ‘Important’ to the future of platform engineering."'
Donald Trump’s digital landgrab - File under “sovereign cloud”: “The state department is now claiming otherwise: if you’re on the internet and using a service provided by a US tech company, they say, then Donald Trump sets the rules. The US is quietly declaring sovereignty over cyberspace and expecting the world to acquiesce, making an unprecedented digital landgrab in the name of freedom."
Nine Rules for Evaluating New Technology - It should be cheaper, better, and not cause a lot of bullshit.