Tag: innovation
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Have We Been Thinking About A.D.H.D. All Wrong? – “rather than continuing to treat ADHD as a chronic medical disorder primarily requiring pharmaceutical intervention, it may be more helpful to see it as a situational mismatch between individuals and their environments.”
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Why did Hemingway like Cézanne so much?
Hemingway saw in Cézanne a kindred spirit—a man who stripped nature down to its essentials and reassembled it into something honest and uncompromised. Here are a few reasons for his admiration: Structural Purity: Cézanne’s work revolves around reducing forms to their geometric fundamentals. His method of breaking objects down into simple shapes and planes resonated…
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Deepseek: The Quiet Giant Leading China’s AI Race – ”Open source, publishing papers, in fact, do not cost us anything. For technical talent, having others follow your innovation gives a great sense of accomplishment. In fact, open source is more of a cultural behavior than a commercial one, and contributing to it earns us respect.…
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Software is cheap
And software is valuable You want to maximize the amount of weird stuff you’re doing across the business to generate asymmetry with your competitors, with the admittedly serious caveat that the pathway to this particular ancient ruin is littered with skulls. Pay attention to the skulls. (From the HST or tech.) Software costs very little…
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It takes a village to make a king, not just developers
This is an example of a weird use of “developers are the new kingmakers”: There is a simple rule: developers rule. You run the global economy, right? Not politicians, not CEOs – developers are the ones running this global economy. What aspect of your life is not getting more digital? Everything, sports, entertainment, social experience…
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The Tech Marketer’s Problem
Thought Leadership Hidden in Plain Sight There’s a variation of The Plumber’s Problem that I suffer from: The Tech Marketer’s Problem. When I see a new idea in tech bubbling up and I can smell the marketing strategy behind it (which, with my background, I usually can), I stop enjoying the, you know, story. This…
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Waiting for the close of open – how long can the 2000s spirit of open source and open APIs last?
Midjourney: Medieval serfs defending a castle from demons in the style of Hieronymus Bosch, from venusinfurs. The changing nature of “open” In our tech world, the idea of “open” has changed a lot in the past few years. Instead of it meaning “open to everyone,” the classic notion of “open source,” now it more means…
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Take care of your legacy software before it kills your ability to innovate
I want to try a new video format: the Quick Comment. Just one “fact” or idea and 45 seconds or so of commentar. We’ll see if I like it and/or keep it up.
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5 ways to escape technical debt, and stop making more of it
Technical debt is the accumulation of compromises on quality to save time – postponed tests, outdated software, features over process. Five ways to work it down gradually, from Bryan Ross.
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The Silo Unifier’s Paradox
If no one owns the problem, no one can fix it – The Silo Unifier’s Paradox Solving the IT silo problem is challenging as there’s no one person responsible for the entire process. Each solo is owned by different groups like software developers, operations, security, project managers, and more. These groups often have competing goals,…
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Driven by art, the diffusion of innovation, or just being weird
What is a Life Dedicated to Art? What does it mean to live a life dedicated to art, focused on art? I know what it means and feel like for a software developer to dedicate your life to programming, to technology innovation. It is somewhat indescribable: you just do it because you think it’s important…
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_Working Backwards_, recent book on how Amazon runs.
Notes: central is thinking about product features, not business. The business funds the product, the customer value – it’s the McGuffin that you careful guide to being cash flow. The question here is to find other org.s that have adopted abs adapted the practices successfully, or not. the advice at the end is pretty straightforward…
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🗂 Link: Deutsche Bank to set up innovation division to drive digital transformation
The bank will create agile teams where “product owners in business and infrastructure divisions will lead teams of technologists, using agile principles, to continuously work on products and ensure progress meets their expectations”. It will also increase the proportion of software engineers in the workforce and better support and motivate them, as well as “reduce…
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🗂 Link: Nationwide CIO’s ride-along sparks innovation and pays dividends
“This allows an insurance broker to close and bind a product in real-time,” which also lowers the cost of onboarding new members, Fowler says. Source: Nationwide CIO’s ride-along sparks innovation and pays dividends
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🗂 Link: Seeing Around Corners — a book review
A competitive arena, as opposed to an industry, is used as a primary lens through which to understand the world and therefore what the effects of a potential inflection point might be. Think of an arena as a definition of the setting where customer need connects with company solution to create value. An arena can…
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🗂 Link: Why did we wait so long for the bicycle?
The key insight was to stop trying to build a mechanical carriage, and instead build something more like a mechanical horse. Source: Why did we wait so long for the bicycle?
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🗂 Link: Build Your Next-Generation Business Case Using A Lifecycle
Too often, leaders think of a business case as a one-time checklist item. But the best practice — which will increase your likelihood of success — is to think of a business case as a lifecycle, an iterative process that involves many stakeholders and steps. This lifecycle has five phases: Source: Build Your Next-Generation Business…
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Link: The Rise, Fall, And Rise Again Of The Integrated Developer Toolchain
And this is where DevOps tool vendors now see opportunity. The mounting tax of maintaining tools has grown so extensive that offering an all-in-one solution may just be the trick to get development teams unstuck and the innovation train rolling even faster. Source: The Rise, Fall, And Rise Again Of The Integrated Developer Toolchain
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Programming your organization for loonshots
Here’s an an idea for a formula for figuring out how much innovation an organization will do. I never know how good math is for this kind of thing, but it adds structure to programming an organization to be innovative, rather than career advancement seeking: In organizations, the competing forces can be described as “stake…
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Discussing the common “CIO agenda”
I get asked to talk with “executives” more and more. That’s part of why Pivotal moved me over to Europe. People make lots of claims about what executives want to hear, the conversations you can have with them as a vendor. They don’t have time. You have have to be concise. They don’t want to…
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