Just images on Saturday. LogoffThis just images edition is inspired by readjpeg.com. Sure, it could be, like, in tumblr. But why not here for some Saturday easy viewing? Here is the plan. I’ll send these types of picture stream posts out on Saturdays. Each picture is linked if I got it from somewhere else, and if I saved where. Otherwise, I either forgot where I got it from or it’s a photo I took.

Just images on Saturday. LogoffThis just images edition is inspired by readjpeg.com. Sure, it could be, like, in tumblr. But why not here for some Saturday easy viewing? Here is the plan. I’ll send these types of picture stream posts out on Saturdays. Each picture is linked if I got it from somewhere else, and if I saved where. Otherwise, I either forgot where I got it from or it’s a photo I took.

Just images on Saturday. LogoffThis just images edition is inspired by readjpeg.com. Sure, it could be, like, in tumblr. But why not here for some Saturday easy viewing? Here is the plan. I’ll send these types of picture stream posts out on Saturdays. Each picture is linked if I got it from somewhere else, and if I saved where. Otherwise, I either forgot where I got it from or it’s a photo I took.

I’m on vacation these week, so I have no musings on the seven year distraction of kubernetes, platform engineering, or business strategies for ChatGPT. However, we’re down near Ghent, so maybe we’ll have some more pickle problems. Thankfully, Gareth sent me a great edition of The Link Gourmand, so I can lean on him for some content this issue. Fun wallpaper in the sauna.The Link GourmandThis is a new section where I ask people how they find links.

Garbage Chairs of Amsterdam.A short Readwise Reader ReviewI’ve been using Readwise and its Reader app for about a month. I think it’s great - I pay for it. Reader is a straight-up Instapaper replacement with a text-to-speech function and AI capabilities for summarizing articles and answering questions. The AI stuff isn’t that great - I haven’t used to to integrate the articles, though. I just used the text-to-speech thing this morning and really liked it.

Suggested theme song: that’s some real-deal wigglin’. MeetingsIt’s that time of year again: lots of planning meetings. In my role, I’m usually so far out to sea and into terra incognita that I don’t get to many corporate meetings. But, I have recently. Here’s four things I’ve been thinking: 1. Categorize meetings into two types: brainstorming and decidingBrainstorming meetings are intended to be open ended, almost feeling like a waste of time.

Preface: not too much time today to write something on my own. I was finally able to sign up for ChatGPT Plus yesterday, which is fun. For today, I asked ChatGPT to write about the history of parachute pants in the style of Susan Sontag. I spent some time massaging it, throwing in new ideas (like the idea of fashion colonialism and the irony of grunge and work-cloths), and all that.

Just some catch-up on links and wastebook’ing since the speedy episode last time. WastebookThe Wine Glass, Vermeer, c. 1660.Seeing a Vermeer in person is much different than printed in a book, or even a poster. It has that luster to it. Not all of the pictures, some are fuzzy more like a Rembrandt. But others, like The Wine Glass, practically glow. “When you can’t imagine how things are going to change, things change in ways that are unimaginable.

Midjourney: happy business woman reaching their five fingered hand out for a hand shake, 4K in the style of pixabayThis is some really good thinking and actual tactics from Andrew on how big consultancies could use AI. His team works at EY, so they’re not just arm-chair speculating on a Saturday morning while watching Hilda like I’m about to do. The AI is your team of summer internsI’m eager to see how much better the responses Andrew got would be with things like the Bing AI: being able to pull in contemporary knowledge and put in links to citations would be great.

If I had more time, the Excel macro jokes would be better. Suggested sound track for this episode: Google is not hardcore enough, or, sounds like a great place to work - a Rorschach testMidjourney: black and white 1980s clip art of a corporate board meeting, detailed with intricate clothing design.What you can do here is substitute the word “Google” for most any normie company out there and get a not too bad analysis of baseline “culture” in IT.