Twitter doesn’t drive many substuck views - “At the start of the year, Twitter on average drove less than 3% of all views across Substack. Today, it accounts for less than 2%.” For my newsletter, Twitter is fine, it’s third place in views (2,923 since Dec 8th, 2022) after the actual newsletters (32,551), and the always mysterious “Direct” source (8,007). Twitter has also driven 31 new subscriptions, I currently have 593 subscribers.
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IBM Watson missed the AI revolution, but Watsonx could become the heartbeat of the Generative Enterprise - Overview of the three parts of Watsonx, and discussion of what the deal is with it. I joined the waitlist.
Gartner Says Layoffs May Ultimately Harm Shareholder Returns - After firing people to lower costs, the remaining staff have to do more work, either demanding more pay of getting demoralized and seeking another job. Also, if you want to grow revenue, you’ll need more staff, so you’ll hire contractors, and eventually want to hire back more staff. There’s also a list of novel alternatives, including a four day work week!
Apple Makes More Fintech Moves With High-Yield Savings Account From Goldman Sachs - Very detailed overview of “Bank of Apple."
VMware strives to become the multi-cloud leader - Overview of VMware’s current strategy, etc. from the VMware analyst day.
IBM looks to turn nearly 8,000 jobs over to artificial intelligence, CEO says - ’“I could easily see 30% of that getting replaced by AI and automation over a five-year period,” Krishna told Bloomberg News, referring to “back-office” positions such as in human resources.’"
KubeCon Europe 2023 highlights Kubernetes explosion and need for instant platform engineering, CNCF - “10,000 attendees, 58% of whom were new to the conference, with another 2,000 people on the waitlist” And: “Surveys show that Kubernetes complexity, security, and a skills gap are the top challenges organizations face in adopting Kubernetes… Managing configuration complexity at a global platform scale, Painful Kubernetes upgrades, Multi-cluster management”