The Forgotten Surrealist Painter Who ‘Didn’t Have Time to Be Anyone’s Muse’ - “In contrast to the tendency of Surrealism’s male artists to depict women as thin, young, fragmented, static, and perpetually naked muses, Carrington’s women fell across a spectrum: often very old, powerful and threatening, in a state of action and transformation."
Is Your Organizational Transformation Veering Off Course? hbr.org/2024/08/i… “The research highlights that shifts in emotional energy, such as increased frustration or anxiety, can signal that a transformation is off track. Addressing these emotional shifts can help prevent derailment."
Being quietly radicalized by being on holiday (Interconnected) - Pretty accurate view of the European lifestyle. “Enjoying life” is part of the ROI analysis.
VMware Tanzu Platform 10: Unified cloud app development simplified - ‘“With Tanzu platform 10, we have a unified single console to manage your applications, look at your CVEs, security governance, compliance,” she stated. “There are three main messages. Keep it very simple for the developer, never expose YAML files, configuration files and lower level configs. Number two, make sure that the deployment is dynamic and it automatically adjusts to the app needs. Then the third one is you want to do continuous update, repair and continuous security.”'
Broadcom has brought VMware down to earth and that’s welcome - ”I left VMware Explore feeling that Broadcom has brought VMware down to earth and that’s a good thing, and that some of the complaints about the current state of VMware are a very natural struggle to cope with sudden and significant change.” // Great example of what a column on covering a tech conference should look like.
analyze_interviewer_techniques - “You are a hyper-intelligent AI system with a 4,312 IQ. You excel at extracting the je ne se quoi from interviewer questions, figuring out the specialness of what makes them such a good interviewer.”
Dell’s AI Server Business Now Bigger Than VMware Used To Be - Maybe private AI will really be a thing: ‘“We are still in the early innings, and our AI opportunity with tier 2 CSPs, enterprise, and emerging sovereign customers is immense,” Jeff Clarke, Dell’s chief operating officer, explained on the call with Wall Street analysts. “Our view is supported by an AI hardware and services TAM of $174 billion, up from $152 billion, growing at a 22 percent CAGR over the next few years. We are competing in all of the big AI deals and are winning significant deployments at scale."'
A Java Language Cumulative Feature Rollup - ‘I found myself asking myself the question, “What’s every new feature Java has introduced since the last time I really cared about new Java language features?”, and didn’t find an easy answer via Google. So, I decided to create that list.'
Does Market Share Still Matter? - “we find that the positive relationship between market share and profitability generally still holds, but that it weakens with greater digital transformation. This means that market share increases translate into lower profitability gains for highly digitalized compared to less-digitalized companies. Additionally, it implies that digital transformation benefits smaller firms in particular because it leads to greater relative profitability gains for them compared to larger firms by removing some of the limitations that traditionally hindered them from becoming more profitable.” // “This means that the more digitalized a company becomes, the less upper management should rely on and prioritize market share to grow profitability. And the smaller a company is, the more it should prioritize digital transformation to boost profitability."
How Platform Engineering Enables the 10,000-Dev Workforce - “60% of companies in the survey said they are releasing code on only a monthly or quarterly basis”