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Why is Rear Window so tense? - “The central critical question about Rear Window is: what makes it so compelling? For the first part of the film, nothing happens."
How to increase your surface area for luck - “One distinguishing feature I’ve noticed among people who are unusually successful is that they just try a lot of stuff – socially, intellectually, professionally. It’s the rate of experimentation, the number of shots on goal, that provides the magic, not the percentage of successes, which might be very low at first."
Moral Deskilling: why you spend more time on admin than your actual job - I think what this is saying is: when you build a system of work where the people doing the actual work (“workers”) do not have quality control over their work, you mistrust them. Therefore you need more managers to oversee them. The workers then stop caring about doing “good work,” because it is l, by design, no longer their responsibility. Also, it adds a lot of extra paperwork to audit them:
Why is Rear Window so tense? - “The central critical question about Rear Window is: what makes it so compelling? For the first part of the film, nothing happens."
C-suite leaders attribute revenue, software development boosts to AI - “Executives credit increased AI use over the past year for bringing an estimated 44% bump in revenue, according to the report. Nearly 3 in 5 respondents said their organization experienced business growth thanks to software innovation over the last year."
Strategic Benefits of Private Cloud in Financial Services and Insurance - “Security is the leading driver of workload repatriation from public cloud. 49% cite data privacy and security as the top barrier to GenAI adoption. Organizations are now deploying AI workloads in private clouds nearly as often as public clouds (55% vs. 56%)"
2025 Sees Inflection Point for Government: A Shift to Private Cloud - “more than 70 percent of government IT leaders are considering repatriating workloads from public cloud to private cloud and nearly 50 percent say they have already begun that repatriation process."