The Business Bullshit DictionaryI’m recording a few tiny videos defining some business-world jargon. “Input,” “outcome oriented,” “politics,” and, here, “bureaucracy.” Once you’ve been in the corporate world for a few years, you stop noticing these words and a few years later, you stop taking them seriously, or at least, in a nuanced way. They’re just part of the noise of the cube-farm. But, if you pay attention to them, they’re often signals that are telling you either to beware or pointing to a problem that can be fixed.

What every kid wants, the Windows XP wallpaper.What’s your favorite “observed statistical regularity”?The “problem” with Goodhart’s Law is that we now know it exists. By “problem,” I mean using Goodhart’s Law when it comes to critiquing organizational metrics. If you know Goodhart’s Law (rather, the rewording of it as we’ll see below), when you’re making metrics, you change them and adapt them over time before they get gamed. When criticizing metrics (or anything, really) you should first assume that the people making them and using them are smart and trying their best…and know how to search the Internet.

There’s a lot going at work now, employee wise. If you’re using a VMware email address to subscribe to this (there’s several handfuls of people who are), I’d suggest switching it over to a personal email address. BEST OF LUCK TO US ALL. Meanwhile: Wastebook“Never ask me how I paid” is my version of “never tell me the odds.” “Alfur, that was brilliant!” Alfur: “The important thing is: it worked!”

Let’s get to it Found in a stack of my son’s old school papers.WastebookIf it's bad to yuk someone's yum, I suppose it's equally rude to yum someone's yuk. When I see a title that reads “Towards a…” I often think “cool story. Call me back when you get there.” I’ve listened to much worse in my playlists for years, so, you know: two thumbs up…? “Every now and then, I think about the fact that Karl Lagerfeld owned over 300 iPods.

Thriving in a BigCo: Avoiding homework, and assigning homeworkI’m working on a video series with O’Reilly based on my working and thriving in a BigCo talks. Here’s a little storyboarding I did on one topic to avoid having too much work that’s not part of your job, a concept I call “homework.” The young developer assigns themselves homework. Image from geralt, 2015.Asking Questions Leads to Homework for YouWhen you point out a problem, you make yourself responsible for the solution, whether it’s your job or not.

"We can’t hire the right people” is the eternal complaint of CIOs everywhere. They’re beset by all this FUD’ing out about Facebook coming and disrupting the toothpaste industry, Google accidentally dis-intermediating car insurance, Elon Musk launching a bank1, or Amazon doing anything new. I call this freaking out the “macro-economic headwinds” part of any pitch, freakout, or “TED-style” talk. The CIO’s reply is often: if only they could just hire the right people to sling the code, install Kubernetes the hard way, write good ChatGPT prompts, or whatever, they could turn those headwinds into tailwinds.

Here’s the final installment of my talks with Here’s the third little interview I did with Torsten Volk at EMA research. We talk about things that slow developers and other staff down. He’s done a great, very thorough look at Kubernetes usage and the state of things. You can get it for free thanks to my work. Watch it! Wastebook“To ‘help gamers keep the crunch to themselves,’ Doritos is debuting what it calls ‘Doritos Silent.

Here’s the third little interview I did with Torsten Volk at EMA research. We talked about managing Kubernetes, especially if you’re a large organization that has lots of everything. You know: MULTI-CLOUD, Y’ALL! He’s done a great, very thorough look at Kubernetes usage and the state of things. You can get it for free thanks to my work. Watch it if you’re into this kind of thing. Wastebook“If you’re a baker, making bread, you’re a baker.

Here’s the second little interview I did with Torsten Volk at EMA research. We talked about security concerns with Kubernetes. He’s done a great, very thorough look at Kubernetes usage and the state of things. You can get it for free thanks to my work. Torsten says that last he counted, there were over 140 distress, services, and different ways of getting Kubernetes. As I say, this is probably too many.

… Here’s a little interview I did with Torsten Volk at EMA research. We talked about security concerns with Kubernetes. He’s done a great, very thorough look at Kubernetes usage and the state of things. You can get it for free thanks to my work. Not enough failure yet to be perfectAs ever with security and a new technology, there’s a lot of uncertainty and finishing off the security features as a new technology is used more and more in the mainstream.