Seeing like a software company - When management meddling slows down the business because they need/want to measure and make decide. Also, good sub-plot on “the meeting for the meeting,” prep meetings and using the “back-channel” to get things done.
Blade Runner makes its live-action return next year - 2026 in Amazon.
Meta Says Threads Has Over 400 Million Monthly Active Users - “What is even more amazing about this statistic is how non-essential Threads seems to be."
The Business of ChatGPT - Revenue and such numbers circa. August, 2025.
One Way Parents Can Fight the Phone-Based Childhood - GPT5: “Phones are not the root cause; they’re the symptom of a constrained, over-supervised childhood. The solution isn’t banning devices but giving kids freedom back: unsupervised play, local friends, independence. If parents want kids off screens, they must open the door–literally–and rebuild the conditions that once made childhood social, adventurous, and real."
ai-development-patterns, PaulDuvall - ”A comprehensive collection of patterns based on my experience for building software with AI assistance, organized by implementation maturity and development lifecycle phases. These patterns are subject to change as the field evolves.”
Microsoft says U.S. law takes precedence over Canadian data sovereignty - Great picture too.
Kubernetes Isn’t Enough for a Production-Ready Platform - Yeah. You should buy your platform instead of build it.
AWS CEO says AI replacing junior staff is ‘dumbest idea’ - ‘Amazon Web Services CEO Matt Garman has suggested firing junior workers because AI can do their jobs is “the dumbest thing I’ve ever heard.”'