“Let’s say one person forgot to pick up groceries or didn’t accurately recall a conversation; the other would say, ‘Oh, you’re gaslighting me. This is psychological abuse,’” he said. “But they weren’t. They were just having what I would consider pretty normal miscommunications.”
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Your aging brain stops being a people-please. But: “The same directness that would be called ‘no-nonsense’ in a man gets called ‘abrasive’ in a woman over 40.” “I had to teach a lesson on asparagus, an ingredient I couldn’t care less about but apparently was good for SEO.” Forrester’s highlights from re:Invent, including things that are not AI. “Artists are not using AI to make art. They use it as an ‘Admin Shield’ to handle invoices, emails, and code so they have more time for the actual creative act.
Day 2 AI looms
Achieving enterprise AI ROI still tough:
According to a recent Gartner poll, over half (53%) of participants were exploring Agentic AI, whereas 25% were piloting it and only 6% had reached production mode. The high exploration and pilot percentages suggest strong interest and perceived potential in Agentic AI. However, ==the low production percentage implies barriers to scaling, such as technical complexity, lack of maturity in tools, governance challenges==, or unclear ROI.
Woke fonts. I wasn’t sure what size they used for Courier New.1 How I long for the all business, utilitarian thrill of Courier New… It was a simpler time.
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From the original memo, it looks like 12 point? ↩︎
If you are only allowed to learn from the internet at age 16, you are probably not ready for marvelous achievements at age 18 or perhaps not even at 20. The country may become more mediocre.
Shutdown and consolidate old IT so you can focus on new IT, like AI hoopla
People often say they spend 80% of their IT efforts on maintenance, “keeping the lights on”:
Like all banks, our technology expenditure has been weighted towards maintenance and regulatory programs. These activities represented around 85% of our tech investment spend in 2024.
So, simplifying that, shutting down old things is a positive thing to do;
We are simplifying our IT, reducing the number of applications and increasing the use of APIs and standardized tools.
As we continue to accelerate the pace of digital innovation across our global operations in an uncertain world, maintaining control over data locality and security is paramount," said Daniele Tonella, Chief Technology Officer, ING. “VMware Cloud Foundation 9 will provide us with the unified, enterprise-grade private cloud platform necessary to achieve multi-region consistency, enhance workload mobility, and confidently meet the complex cloud sovereignty and compliance requirements that underpin our commitment to our customers.
🔗 ING Selects VMware Cloud Foundation 9.0 as Strategic Platform for Private Cloud Modernization
Amazon's enterprise AI strategy, explained by Neil Ward-Dutton
Neil Ward-Dutton, an IDC analyst focused on AI, automation, data and analytics, said three announcements on the first day of the conference were of note. “AWS AI Factories is one,” he said. “These are AWS AI infrastructure and software stacks, built and managed by AWS, but deployed in customers’ own datacentres. “These are, at least initially, aimed at the largest customers with the most challenging security or sovereignty requirements.”
“While the JavaScript language didn’t ship publicly until that September and didn’t reach a 1.0 release until March 1996, the descendants of Eich’s initial 10-day hack now run on approximately 98.9 percent of all websites with client-side code, making JavaScript the dominant programming language of the web. It’s wildly popular; beyond the browser, JavaScript powers server backends, mobile apps, desktop software, and even some embedded systems. According to several surveys, JavaScript consistently ranks among the most widely used programming languages in the world.
🔗 In 1995, a Netscape employee wrote a hack in 10 days that now runs the Internet
“The quick post is low-context, the effortpost is high-context.” As summarized a bit better: “The quick post is low-context, the effortpost is high-context.”
🔗 Why people like your quick bullshit takes better than your high-effort posts