Sonos’ interim CEO hits all the right notes in first letter to employees - The Verge - This “hey, I’m the new executive” memo is some well done internal comms. He literally has a Sanos tattoo and mentions three times that he’s uses the products.
The Ultimate Guide to Grappling in D&D - This is one of the more obscure combat actions in D&D, but actually seems really useful, especially. for lower level characters.
o1 isn’t a chat model (and that’s the point) - “o1 will just take lazy questions at face value and doesn’t try to pull the context from you. Instead, you need to push as much context as you can into o1.” // Instead, give it briefs, memos, reports to start with. As always: context.
Meta Reorientates Itself Around ‘Masculine Energy’ - This feels similar to the arational RTO mandates. What could possibly be the link between “not enough masculine-energy” and “not enough share-holder value increase”? Is Facebook not “aggressive” enough in online advertising? Are the failings or lack of filling potential due to too much feminine energy? How are any of those be connected? // If not, this sentiment is just preference, more the mindset desires of those mandating.
Review: Good Strategy, Bad Strategy - Good excerpts and book notes on (corporate) strategy. // “A strategy coordinates action to address a specific challenge.” // Meanwhile, here is the problem with relying too much on war for your case studies: war focusing on killing people to achieve its “business outcomes."
How Fidelity’s “chaos buffet” pushed AWS to new Lambda tools - “Fidelity has over 7,700 applications (75% of its estate) in the public cloud. Among these are its trade order management system, which relies heavily on Lambda’s serverless, event-driven compute service."
What ‘Free Speech’ Is - “Right now, it is important for Meta to avoid getting on the incoming Trump administration’s shit list, so they, like everyone, are grovelling.” // Good over all, almost philosophic, analysis.
When to Consider Building a Private Cloud: A Pragmatic Perspective - Yes, and: consider if you already have a private cloud and it’s working just fine. Don’t able flip your success to chase improvements that you’ve already achieved and rely on.
Bitcoin Lessons - The case that crypto is bad. This is a good counter/balance to the Trump Tech Bros acting all butt-hurt about crypto regulation.
Not even OpenAI’s $200/mo ChatGPT Pro plan can turn a profit - I use the AI things a lot and I’m still baffled at how you could use her $200 of it each month. What are these people doing? Living in there? // Maybe it’s the live voice features and image generation? Maybe they load up huge docs?