Hey, wait – is employee performance really Gaussian distributed?? - Where there’s a bell curve, beware bullshit. Also, we all know this stack ranking practice is not good, right?

Rough notes on learning Wardley Mapping. - These always seemed like as nerd’s idea of how strategy is done. Which is fine! Are there “big name” use cases after all these years, especially where the method is applied over three or five years?

Forget All-Cloud or All-On-Prem: Embrace Hybrid for Agility and Cost Savings - The New Stack - Why private cloud is still, and will continue to be a big deal.

Some Simple Economics of the Google Antitrust Case - The case that people are free to change their browser defaults.

The customer is often wrong - Reminder shout revealed preferences.

Communication Structures in a Growing Organization – Jessitron - Why you do tops-down management and lots of meetings in larger, more mature companies.

Strategy is Not War; It’s Gardening - Post Sun Tzu strategy metaphor.

Modern Work Fucking Sucks. - Attack of the SaaS productivity apps. // Maybe it’d be better to just use one suite of tools: Office 364 or Google Apps, i.e., the #defaultslifestyle. // It’s easy to fall into the habit of planning and showing progress in work instead of just doing the work.

DORA Report 2024 – A Look at Throughput and Stability - Developer productivity is fine, but: “We thought the bottleneck was developers writing code, but in fact the bottleneck is putting good code into production.” // Maybe the current trend in DevOps/platform engineering/cloud native to to stop caring about developer productivity, rather, re-silo and let them care about it, and instead focus on operations productivity. Definitely that re-eval of how silo-busting has been going.

The Rise of AI Agent Infrastructure - We’re all figuring out what “agent” means in AI land. It’ll probably end up meaning nothing if us marketing people do our jobs of claiming that we all do it.